{"id":3195,"date":"2009-07-25T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T00:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2009-07-25T18:12:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T00:12:34","slug":"dinner-straight-from-the-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3195","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Straight From the Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Green Corn Moon<\/p>\n<p>Dinner with vegetables straight from the garden is a treat and can be a surprise.\u00a0 It was tonight.\u00a0 We had potatoes, new <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3196\" title=\"potatoes-709042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/potatoes-709042.jpg\" alt=\"potatoes-709042\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/potatoes-709042.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/potatoes-709042-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>potatoes, dug just before cooking.\u00a0 They had a distinct flavor, a nutty earthy\u00a0 tone unfamiliar from the long since harvested potatoes typical of both home and restaurant cooking.\u00a0 This meal included our garlic, our kale and chard, the potatoes garnished with our flat parsley and a bowl of sugar snap peas as an appetizer.<\/p>\n<p>Digging potatoes involved a spading fork to loosen the soil, then searching around under the earth for these lumpy\u00a0 treasures.\u00a0 They grow well in the sandy soil here in Andover.<\/p>\n<p>(pic:\u00a0 potatoes before harvest)<\/p>\n<p>Kate takes off for the Grand Teton&#8217;s tomorrow, a CME conference.\u00a0 BJ is also out there, playing in the Grand Teton music festival as she has for the last several years.\u00a0 The Tetons have an incredible beauty, the American Alps, a very young mountain range.\u00a0 She&#8217;s back on Wednesday, then we go to see a micro-surgeon who has perfected the technique for cervical vertebrae.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll evaluate Kate&#8217;s candidacy for that surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of weeding today and more tomorrow.\u00a0 A normal task in late July, early August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Green Corn Moon Dinner with vegetables straight from the garden is a treat and can be a surprise.\u00a0 It was tonight.\u00a0 We had potatoes, new potatoes, dug just before cooking.\u00a0 They had a distinct flavor, a nutty earthy\u00a0 tone unfamiliar from the long since harvested potatoes typical of both home and restaurant cooking.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dinner Straight From the Plant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,87,9,127,336],"tags":[1551,379,1723,111,1724,1589,1642],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-garden","category-great-work","category-health","category-permaculture","tag-chard","tag-garlic","tag-kale","tag-kate","tag-parsley","tag-peas","tag-potatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}