This hobby of mine is getting expensive. I might as well apply for membership at Manila seedling bank next I come back there and save myself some cash.
5 and a half foot tall cherry tomatoes and the rest of my plants in garden bed number one. hehe.
So anyway, most of you may remember that I tried to make a review of a few weeks back about this particular potting mix. That was a bust. Due to bad weather, and bad gardening on my part, the one in the regular garden soil died. I’ve just gotten back from Manila Seedling bank and got myself a couple of basil plants. These are the same varieties. Napolitano Basil. An italian heirloom found in MSBF. I’ll be redoing this whole review from the start to make sure I don’t make the same mistake twice.
A Quick Pasta Dish
Nov 6
Here’s a quick pasta dish anyone can make from ingredients that are usually readily available in any home.
Just some olive oil, a diced tomato, oregano, garlic, leftovers from breakfast (this case corned beef omelette), some chili flakes (i used some diced up chile de arbol and pasilla bajio for this). And you’re golden.
Boil the pasta, while you’re doing that prep the ingredients, fry it up halfway. By then the pasta that’s about 100 grams (good for one serving) will be just about cooked right before it’s al dente. Then just drain the pasta, but don’t forget to leave some of that pasta water into the pan where you’re gonna cook the noodles in along with the rest of the ingredients. And then just add the pasta into the pan, then cook it the rest of the way on low heat until the pasta is perfectly al dente.
Don’t forget to use a good pasta brand coz last time I told someone how to make this, they ended up overcooking the pasta coz they used crappy stuff like Royal.
Takes about 20 minutes to make it, but well worth the effort.
You can add whatever you want, so long as you think it’ll work with it. Pretty basic pasta, and best of all it’s just a bunch of stuff lying around in the kitchen.
Recieved these seeds from a local seed swap.
Sure looking forward to these.
Tomatoes galore! yay! hehe. I’m thoroughly convinced my efforts with the electric toothbrush had something to do with these:
my kaffir lime along with some herbs and a red onion. hehe. kaffir lime and parsley got eaten up by snails. but they’re growing back.
