The East Coast Grill! What a fantastic experience to eat here! The best local seafood and fresh vegetable cooked to perfection and then some! Its like heaven!
Of course every time we go there, the parking lot is full. (The scooter solved that problem - we pull up on the sidewalk.) And the usual wait is over an hour, and they don't take reservations. But an awesome bartender makes sure everyone is happy - until the chef makes them even happier.
I always come away with hundreds of ideas for new vegetables to grow and for preparing veggies. We have 2 of Chris Schlessinger's cookbooks, and I just ordered a couple more. "Quick Pickles" and "Grill It"
Today's ideas:
- The quick pickles are a mix of cucumbers, beans, carrots, and onions. I'm going to search for their recipe. Bet its in the cook book by the name...
- I had a super tasty side of greens, sauteed with bacon. I'll look for this recipe for my fall greens for Thanksgiving.
- The Cape Cod oysters fantastic right now. I wonder if I should try a horseradish plant in the garden next year. They are big but I love fresh horseradish.
tomato growing is my favourite type of plant to grow. However I would like to try other varieties of plants. Does anyone have any suggestions on an easy kind of plant to grow, thats rewarding?
ReplyDeleteIf you only grew tomatoes here in New England this year, you would have come up empty and very sad. Tomatoes are not easy to grow here now with the wet weather and rampant fungi. Late Blight was a disaster for the tomatoes this year and Septoria leaf spot was almost as bad for them last year.
ReplyDeleteIts best to diversify. I would add the following (in this order of best to eat and easiest to grow): lettuce, beans, cucumbers, summer squash, peas, carrots, winter squash. And add lots of marigolds, zinnias, nasturtiums and sunflowers too!
I love his restaurants. Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteIf I were going to try horseradish again it would either be as a container plant or surrounded by a 2' deep barrier. It's aggressive and tenacious. My last attempt hung around until a backhoe excavated the site for a septic system!
ReplyDeleteYou are having WAY too much fun!! This gardening is supposed to be hard work..
ReplyDeleteI grow horseradish here in Rhode Island. I don't find it spreading, but once you have it, you have it forever, like potatoes that come up from the ones you overlooked the year before. It's also a no work plant.
ReplyDeleteHi there, you found time to go out!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great place, I will put that on our recommended places to eat on travels list.
Re greens with bacon, have you tried Brussell Sprouts sauted with Bacon? If not it's yummy especially with chicken or turkey.
Marian (London UK)
My Grandma used to make quick pickles in the summer, they were so good. She just used equal parts water to vinegar and then added sugar to taste.
ReplyDeleteHey Kathy ... combination of comments. Love your Thanksgiving menu. Our kids are away working and so we dine alone but most everything except the bird are from the garden. As for your pictures, i vote for the red cabbage. And, i second the notion of keeping your horseradish in a BIG sunken container. I use one of those black plastic shrub pots ... about 15"in diameter. Horseradish is dead easy ... it just wants SUN and a regular supply of water. I break off the shoots on the top of a harvested root, stick them in a bed in the Fall/Winter, transplant into big pots in the Spring and then stick the pot in the ground in full sun Voila!
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