April 2, 2003
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yup, this has been pasta week so far. curry chicken, basil pesto chicken last night. pesto pasta with veggies tonight. what is pesto? my hunni asked the same thing. it is oil (mine already bought jar has soy), pine nuts, basil, parmesean cheese, garlic. put it on top hot noodles, toss, eat.
sort-of-recipes: 1. the pesto chicken, it was a breast i cut in half down the middle, put some of the pesto on top, put it under the broiler to make it look grilled (you can do a first wave cooking by closing it up in foil first and letting it cook a little bit in the oven, then open it later and throw it under broiler). mine managed to cook fine under the broiler, when it had gotten a bit of black on it (maybe 7-10 minutes?), i cut it to check doneness. it was still a tad pink so i flipped it over and cooked another 5 or so minutes. the pesto was a jar mix (classico) but if you have a mortar and pestle or a food puree''er you can make the pesto (maybe 3TBSP oil, !TBSP pine nuts, 1 TBSP basil, 1 tsp garlic, 1 tsp-1 TBSP parm cheese). put a heaping teaspoon or more on hot noodles, toss.
i experiment some in my kitchen too, that's why there aren't exact measurements. i don't like using measuring things.
2. the curry chicken, that was one breast also, cut into bite size slices and broiled just until done (looks white)(5-7 minutes). for the curry sauce (2 people): about 1/2-3/4 cup broth/stock, 1/4-1/2 cup veggies (in the trinity mix was some garlic, belle pepper, and mostly onions). i heated that and let it bubble then added the flour paste (couple teaspoons cold broth or water mixed with 1/2-1 TBSP flour). once flour thoroughly mixed in, i added some curry. it wasn't enough, so i say i should have used 2 TBSP(or more to taste) (i only used 1). it was a salt free curry powder, so i had to add about a 1/2 tsp salt. the curry sauce thickens quickly, turn it off, add chicken. if it is thick, add some of the pasta boiling water to thin it out so you can cook the chick with the sauce until pasta finished.
my next curry dish will be peanut curry chicken. i had a similar dish at a thai resturant in tampa,fl. never thought peanuts belonged in a meat dish, but it was strangely very good.
ever saw the people who pluck out thier eyelashes and eye brows? i have irritations around my eye and feel the need to pluck the eyelashes out to get the irritation to stop. not to the point with the lashes that they are all gone....but with the rose plant, yes.
PLEASE tell me that even though i plucked off the leaves that the rose bush will still grow just having it's stems. does anyone know? i feel so bad about doing it, but i got nervous and it looked like all the leaves were diseased. now i have a bald plant. tempted to go buy another, but since they were all together they probably all have the same spots on thier leaves. and then spidey told me that her M-I-L told her her plant had a disease, but her plant is just peachy. did i make a mistake taking all the leaves off???
and if it's all good and it will grow back, how long til i have a rose bush that looks leafy again, a month, 2, more?
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I'm thinking the rose bush will be just fine
according to this page, you should "remove any diseased or blighted leaves from the bush itself and from the ground surrounding it."
mmmm pesto
that's what i thought, but i am such a nervous person. and everything i do fails.....
I love experimenting in the kitchen. I use recipes as guides sometimes, but I rarely follow one, and hardly ever measure anything either.
jkjoker, yeah, sounds like me. i like to look at recipes to see what is in it to give it a specific flavour and then i tweak it. actually, i mainly only do that with desserts (i am not a bake queen).
When the winter came and my leaves were all gone it took about a month for some new ones to start growing back. I'm sure it will be okay. If mine can grow with a disease, I'm sure yours can grow with no leaves. Did you have plans on putting it in the ground or did you already do that? Now I feel like a bad plant mother for letting my rose bush have a disease.
But yeah, I probably shoulda cut some of the smaller stems off because my main big stem is now hanging real bad. I need to get a stick to hold it up.
Ok...Im gonna have to start comin in here AFTER I eat, cuz I always get so damn hungry with your food talk
Woo hoo on the descrips! I should try using pasta as a staple more often. Right now I seem to be hooked on rice and potatoes. Or maybe it's a rut. Not sure.
On the roses....wonderful things. Mine are climbers, so I don't prune them back as much as you would a bush. But the general rule with roses is that if you cut them back, they come back more fantastic than ever. Your solution was perfect.
Nope, hadn't been reading namaste. In fact, I'm so totally unaware of Xanga people from the area (I *must* be defunct). Then I got there and everything was in burnt orange. I'm tempted to put my entire site in maroon and white - but I just don't think the world will care.
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If leaves are diseased, taking them off is the right thing to do. If you'd have let them on there, they would all fall off anyway and the new leaves would get the spot and drop off also. You will also want to make sure you pick up any dead leaves on the ground...because the fungus (if its blackspot you have) will get into the ground and hop right back up on your roses at first opportunity. If you are not an anti-chemical gardener, spray the roses every two weeks to keep that nasty stuff from coming back.
For hybrid teas, when you prune in the spring its always good to take the old leaves off. (not sure what kind yours are) They don't collect energy from the sun so well when they get old and leathery and also become prone to disease. The leaves collect the energy throughout the growing season...and its good to have as healthy foliage as possible so you can collect as much as you can. In the late fall and winter, the energy gets stored in the canes and the base of the plant. So long story short....your leaves will come back since its early in the season. The plant will have no problem producing more at this point. You just don't want to let the disease come back. There are a zillion ways to garden though and everyone has their opinions. A good place to collect info is the rose forum at http://www.gardenweb.com
Gee! Came in here to read before lunch. Now I'm really hungry.
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