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My dinner! I took some great northern beans, shirataki noodles, fresh green pepper, portabello mushroom, summer squash and tossed it in some rice vinegar and thyme. Seasoned with a little salt and pepper.
Heavely! ^o^
This is a recipe from "New Indian Home Cooking", a book I recently traded for on Paperbackswap.com. It's one of my favorites so far because it's really simple and fast. Just brown the cumin seeds, throw in the frozen veggies and the rest of the spices and let it cook.
Vegetable ivory comes from a very hard tropical nut, the Tagua nut. It was popular in the late 19th/early 20th century and production had ceased by the 1930s. This type, with the skin of the nut retained as part of the design, came towards the end i.e. 1920s/30s - after that synthetics took over.
To give some sense of scale, the long button in the bottom right is 1.5 inches long.
These are all car boot sale finds.
I tried to grow a couple of things last year. The tomatoes were reasonably successful. The peppers, however, were not. I then left them on the grower and they went mouldy and interesting. 99% went like this and the ONE that was partially edible had no flavour whatsoever. Wrong climate I suppose.
This is my main vegetable bed. The house in the background is my neighbor's; our yard ends literally at the side of the veggie bed.
A look at the garden this morning after I live streamed constructing the frame on which the cucumbers will grow and put up the tomato cages.