TAD With Rain

 Hi Everyone!

Today is TAD with Rain and her theme is yellow. Not sure I have any yellow around and was not able to create anything with that color. This week I did to play in the garden and got the heavy work done. Because yesterday I got the steroid injection in my low back. I refused the light anesthetic. It's a melt under the tongue pill and since I hate feeling loopy, drunk, or off balance, I opted out. Besides the doctor shot me up with tons of lidocane type medicine and after the stick and burn of that I didn't feel a thing. This AM I am feeling no pain and very well. 

Oh here is some yellow. The first squash blossom of the year. 

Garden hack I know that works.

Killing weeds, weather in the garden or just around the yard is a pain. I swear by this inexpensive hack. Generously pour onto weeds. Give it a day and the weeds turn brown and die. Then easily remove them or just let them feed the ground.

Last week I harvested some mint and lemon balm from the garden. I wanted to try a cookie with them. I found a recipe and of course change it. LOL I also took photos and for the life of me can't find them. They did however, look like very much these. Google photo

To start finely chop mint and lemon balm. You will need 2T. Then zest about 1T of lemon and squeeze a 1T of lemon juice onto this and with the back of a spoon press and mix it together.

Let is sit while making the dough. This is not part of the original recipe.

NOTE; I thought this recipe would have more of a punch of lemon, they didn't, so if I make these again I will add 1/2t of lemon extract when adding the egg. 
You will need.

1C butter, softened, 2/3C sugar, 1 egg, 2 1/3 C APF, (all purpose flour) 1t salt, 1/2t cream of tartar, 1t backing soda. Cream of tartar I added and change the amount of salt and BS.

In a mixing bowl cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and lemon mixture. Gradually beat in dry ingredients. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until firm. The recipe reads to roll in wax paper and cut 1/8" thick slices. However, this did not work for me so I just scooped out dough placed on cookie sheet and pressed the dough with the bottom of a glass. Bake these at 350° for 8 to 10 minutes. The edges will brown a bit. This is a slightly crunchy cookie on to and bottom but delightfully soft with a short bread texture.

 

With the last 2 days of overcast and a few showers my garden is finally growing. Like I mentioned in previous posts, I was harvesting food this time last year. Every year with the weather change it is a new learning curve in the garden. These photos were taken at 6AM today.

These onions are doing better in the ground than the ones in the big garden.
Ahhh another squash blossom.
This pea plant is doing OK the one that was next to it died out.
	I am very happy with the potatoes this year.

Look at this beautiful lettuce.

That's it for now. 

A reminder to join me tomorrow for 

Friday Face Off. Create a blog post, feature a face and then link up with me. Any kind of face in any medium.

Have a great Thursday.

Nicole