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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Lunch

Corgi gardening assistants.

Blue and white agapanthus.

A hadeda - the local, suburban version of pigeons.

After a morning spent gardening for my mom, part of which involved standing in a bikini on a ladder, in the swimming pool, with gloves over my elbows (I don't do spiders), pruning ivy from the waterfall into the pool (it was complicated)...

...I braaied some little lamb chops with Ethiopian berber pepper, lemon and marjoram, heated some quiche Lorraines and made a salad of hearts of gem lettuce with the teeniest tomatoes I have ever seen, and a Verjus vinaigrette with a chopped leek from the garden.
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13 comments:

  1. Ann MarieJanuary 30, 2010 at 9:53 AM

    how pretty! takes my breath away...really!

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  2. KatJanuary 30, 2010 at 9:58 AM

    Your mom's garden is AMAZING!

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  3. FrankJanuary 30, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    That's some big pigeon.

    Bikini, ladder, pool, spiders, gloves. Which of these words doesn't belong.

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  4. BroniJanuary 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM

    Looks so Lekker, makes me lus. Enjoy !!

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  5. sraJanuary 30, 2010 at 12:08 PM

    Hi, this is a nice blog you have here! Re: your intro to 66 sq ft, I live in an apartment too, but have no balcony, and it's well protected from the sun, so I can't grow anything much there.

    I'll come back for more!

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  6. Ellen ZachosJanuary 30, 2010 at 4:00 PM

    Hmm, not your typical garden maintenance...sounds delightful.

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  7. UmāJanuary 30, 2010 at 4:21 PM

    Swoon.

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  8. flwrjaneJanuary 30, 2010 at 5:17 PM

    If I do garden maintenance too can I come? Please? It's snowing in Virginia. Help! Looks so beautiful there.

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  9. IkaikaJanuary 31, 2010 at 2:48 PM

    What a beautiful garden, complicated maintenance and spiders notwithstanding! Wow! I love the agapanthus ... I used to grow both blues and whites whe I lived in Sacramento.

    But maybe you shouldn't let Estorbo see the picture of that pigeon(?) ... He'd have nightmares!

    'Keli'i

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  10. kbdJanuary 31, 2010 at 6:46 PM

    not you too! I love hadeda but most of my fam/friends have your sentiments... :(in

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    my god... i would never go back to new york.

    is giardia or other waterborne illnesses not a concern for the stream?

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  12. MarieFebruary 1, 2010 at 1:13 PM

    Hi Ann Marie - it is a very lovely break from it all...

    I'll pass on the compliment, Kat...

    Fugedaboud it, Frank. Those hadedas are noisy, I'll see if I can find an audioclip. Is the word Spider?

    Broni - ons sal!

    Ellen - it was fun and challenging. But icky.

    m.heart - hope you're feeling better, m'dear.

    flwrjane - sure, come on down!

    Keli'i - heheh, yeah, he'd think about this pigeon :-)

    kbd - I like them, but there are more and more each year.

    Anonymoose- not so far. Never had been. Been drinking it since I was little. Touch wood.

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  13. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2010 at 1:03 AM

    You don't "do" spiders. I am not good with ladders...hmmm, maybe we could negotiate?

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