Our Patio Garden and a Delicious Lunch

Now that the nights are warm enough, we finally got some window boxes mounted on the railing of our deck. On Saturday at the farmer’s market, we bought herbs, leaf lettuce, and a Thai hot pepper plant. Here’s a photo of farmer Abby watering them in.


Here are photos of each box. The first one has Thai basil, red basil, and sweet basil. The second has oregano, cilantro, and mint.


The third one has rosemary, thyme, parsley, and our pepper plant. The fourth box is all assorted leaf lettuces and arugula.



It’s just a small garden, but it really makes us happy to have it. Our porch has a whole new ambiance.

And now on to the food. For lunch today I made Bulgogi, which is Korean marinated and grilled beef. We had it Kalbi style, which means wrapped in lettuce leaves with rice, grilled green onions, and Korean hot red pepper paste. (It’s also traditional to include sliced raw garlic, but we skipped that.) We also ate the grilled stalk of the Chinese lettuce from the farmer’s market. It turns out that Chinese lettuce grows on a thick stalk like Brussels sprouts do. You can peel and eat the stalk just like with broccoli. It was mighty good and tasted a little bit like sweet corn. Here’s a photo of the spread.


Finally, and most exciting, in What’s for Dinner news, Abby received her first payment for an order to her reorganized business. Hooray for Abby! I’m really proud of her for starting her own business. Be sure to check out her redesigned website at www.whatsfordinnermissoula.com.

David

Our anniversary weekend and WFD news

David and I went to Walla Walla WA for our anniversary. We had an absolute blast and stayed at this adorable B and B. We had the whole top floor of this house to our selves with our own bathroom. Here is David in the garden in the back of the house enjoying the koi pond in the garden.

The flowers were all in bloom and smelled amazing.


We did a fair bit of wine tasting in Walla Walla and also went to a goat/sheep fromagerie. The baby lambs had just been born a few weeks before, and they were too cute.



Here I am in the breakfast room on our last morning in Walla Walla. We had a menu to pick from for breakfast both days. On our first morning we had quiche with bacon, asparagus, and cheese served with fresh fruit, an English muffin, and apple pecan coffee cake. The second morning we had blueberry waffles, bacon/ham, fresh fruit and scrambled eggs with Tillamook OR cheddar cheese. Yikes!

Then at night the inn keeper would make creme brulee and leave it in a mini fridge for us to have in bed when we got back from dinner. We literally had to tear ourselves away on Monday to drive home.

In What's for Dinner News I have found a commercial kitchen space, it has been inspected by the health department and they have given me the green light to go ahead with my business. My new website is up and running and has the ability to take orders online, and handle credit cards. Check it out at www.WhatsForDinnerMissoula.com

In addition to offering meals, fresh and frozen, my friend Laura from Le Petite is going to do desserts for WFD and sell them on the website as well. I'm really excited about being able to take orders and getting the business going in full swing.

Keep your fingers crossed!

We hope that everyone is enjoying the beautiful spring weather. My herb garden will be planted this weekend, and I am too excited about getting plants into the window boxes.

Lots of love
Abby and David too