[growth] all things in moderation
Jul. 16th, 2020 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettToday I was really definitely for realsies ONLY going to the allotment to water the greenhouse plants (and feed the compost bin a little). To this end, I deliberately dressed in Not Allotment clothes and shoes, to discourage me from getting sucked into weeding.
I was... mostly successful! I was home in time for therapy and a little therapy prep!
I did, however, maybekindasorta also end up harvesting some holy basil for dinner (in the greenhouse; reasonable). And some raspberries (but not all the raspberries, I didn't go round the back of the fruit cage, I only waded into the thicket up to my chest in about three different places, so... half a point for this one). And, um, several handfuls of blackberries (which involved several rounds of precarious balance and a whole lot of fighting brambles, minus Several Million points, but on the upside they're SUPER TASTY).
Flavour discovery of the day: using fingers covered in holy basil volatiles to shovel fresh raspberries into your mouth is kind of amazing, and I'm giving serious consideration to the idea of a round of holy basil meringues for the purposes of raspberry pavlova.
I was... mostly successful! I was home in time for therapy and a little therapy prep!
I did, however, maybekindasorta also end up harvesting some holy basil for dinner (in the greenhouse; reasonable). And some raspberries (but not all the raspberries, I didn't go round the back of the fruit cage, I only waded into the thicket up to my chest in about three different places, so... half a point for this one). And, um, several handfuls of blackberries (which involved several rounds of precarious balance and a whole lot of fighting brambles, minus Several Million points, but on the upside they're SUPER TASTY).
Flavour discovery of the day: using fingers covered in holy basil volatiles to shovel fresh raspberries into your mouth is kind of amazing, and I'm giving serious consideration to the idea of a round of holy basil meringues for the purposes of raspberry pavlova.
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Date: 2020-07-16 10:27 pm (UTC)I am mildly horrified by the idea of Thai basil meringues, but literally the only thing I've ever knowingly eaten Thai basil in is the tofu thing, at least to my current memory, so I'm gonna have to work to shift that association.
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Date: 2020-07-16 10:32 pm (UTC)it's okay you won't recognise it if i don't tell you what it is
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