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Cashew Nut Paella

Ingredients:
(all measures British Imperial)

• 2 tbsp Olive Oil
• 1 tbsp Butter
• 1 Red Onion, chopped
• 5 and 1/2 oz Paella/Arborio Rice
• 1 tsp ground Turmeric
• 1 tsp ground Cumin
• 1/2 tsp Chilli Powder
• 3 cloves Garlic, crushed
• 1 Chilli, finely sliced
• 2 Peppers (average sized)
• 2 and 3/4 oz Baby Corn Cobs, halved
• 2 tbsp putted Black Olives
• 1 Beef Tomato
• 3/4pint Vegetable Stock
• 2 and 3/4 oz unsalted Cashew Nuts
• 1 oz Frozen Peas
• 2 tbsp Chopped Parsley

Method:
(in a large frying pan: stir throughout all steps)

1• Heat Oil and Butter together until Butter has melted.

2• Sauté Onion for 2-3 minutes until softened.

3• Stir in Rice, Turmeric, Cumin, Chilli Powder, Garlic, Chilli, Peppers, Corn Cobs, Olives and Tomato: cook for 1-2 minutes.

4• Pour in stock, bring to boil, simmer for 20 mins.

5• Add Cashew Nuts, Peas and Parsley: cook for 5 mins

6• Eat it!

Been making it for years
Enjoy!

Thank you so much for sharing! it sounds lovely, can't wait to try it!

^ coolness

Or maybe, considering it’s paella, hotness?

I planted two Phenomenal Lavenders, supposedly they can take the humidity and not rot out.I hope so,I’ve tried for years but it all just rots in the heat of summer.Tomorrow I plant two globe thistles, asparagus crowns, lilies and onions.

^Globe thistles are lovely: asparagus is lovelier though

It looks good in the garden, especially with dew on it.And tastes wonderful lightly steamed with a pat of butter.

Right now, it's lemons, oranges, and tomatoes.

It does indeed: I like the shimmering lightness of it swaying in the breeze when full grown.
And it is delicious as well
Think last time I had some it was in a white wine sauce with red peppers, onion and garlic all baked in puff pastry



And we haven’t even got tomatoes out: still to cold here!
Always loved the thick cloying smell of them growing, not pleasant but it’s arresting & promises deliciousness

Miss Lizard, I am jealous of your asparagus. Too hot here. But I remember my childhood home had wild asparagus in the back yard. Loved the ferny shoots. If you have any luck with the lavender let me know. It just gets moldy almost immediately upon bringing it home from the nursery.

Karamazov, thanks for the paella recipe. I will surely try it.

Fnord, citrus greening is a real problem here. I had to cut down tangerines and oranges. I've a key lime that looks like it has it. In the woods there is a wild rough-skinned lemon and several tangerines which are quite good if not very productive. What varieties are you growing?

Kortie, I'm sure that deer considers herself quite fortunate to find such tasty morsels. At least, I hope she enjoys them.

Will do.I hope it’s as humidity resistant as they claim.
https://southernlivingplants.com/the-co ... -lavender/
There is one citrus that is hardy here, trifoliate orange.I have Flying Dragon and the ordinary non contorted kind.It has wicked thorns and tons of small seedy fruits in fall.They smell good and the juice is tasty in tea with sugar.

That sounds really delicious!

^ my memory says so!

If I remember I’ll hunt that recipe tomorrow

Peonies are real easy to grow in New England. I have Bartzella, High Noon, and Sarah Bernhardt.

I think trifoliate orange is the old-fashioned rootstock for citrus in Florida. When the graft dies, the trifoliate takes over. Here it is a delicious sour orange; excellent in Cuban cooking. There were some in a neighbor's woods but then he fenced it off.

The Southern Living collection is very interesting. They have a table grape they claim is good in 9b, which is my zone. However zone 10 plants seem to grow best in my garden, but we will get a frost or freeze, which knocks out the zone 10s. A bit of a tricky region. OTOH, any guava will grow here.

They do use it for a root stock,I suppose because it’s so hardy.
Pears,plums and peaches trying to bloom.Its the warm weather.Sometimes a late frost nails them all.
Muscadines do better for me than grapes.I have one concord vine and it gets disease every year, but not the muscadines.
The peaches and plums get brown rot but I found a natural fungicide that solved that problem.
Peonies do well, I have a pink, white, and a red one.I have no idea of t he names,they were pass along plants.I would like Festiva Maxima because it has a strong peony fragrance.

I don't much like muscadines, which is why I was excited about the, perhaps, 9b grape variety.

Peonies are lovely. I seem to remember they were always crawling with ants. I haven't seen in peony since I lived up north.

Here is something for the people who don't have much garden space or time to get some fresh food. Microgreens. You can grow them yourself. I probably wouldn't have tried it, but a colleague introduced me to them. They look like this:

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It takes about a week to grow them in any sunny east or south window. You can spend money on a fancy kit, which is how I got started. Now I just do it with supplies I already have on hand, and buy the microgreen seeds and some peat pellets.

Basically, you trim off the tops and use them in salads, or sprinkle on the top of chili or soup, or use as a garnish like parsley. Apparently they are quite nutritious.