reap what you sow

REAP WHAT YOU SOW
thats what we did last night
we reaped real good what we sowed

i raise everything we grow here organically
and i preach the organic gospel every chance i can
i even added it to the name of this blog
organicgreendoctor

this year in the late winter and early spring
i gradually took my time and redid all my garden beds
i dug them up and placed cardboard newspapers limbs
then leaves in the bottom of the beds
then i layered newspapers leaves soil compost
until i filled up the beds

then i placed 3 inches of compost mostly that i made
myself here its called country n compost

(leaves lots of leaves cardboard newspapers feedbags lots
of chicken poop and all shredded to a fine material by
our country n hens and composted for weeks and months)

and then added to some beds the lady bug composts when
i ran out of mine
then
i added an organic fertilizer then a sprinkling of cottonseed meal
and in the planting hole when i planted plants i used
earthworm castings ie worm poop

then if  i had an insect problem i used organic methods only
pick um off spray em off
so i really dont usually have much insect problems though

then its all watered only with cloud juice ie rainwater either
from the sky or from my rainwater collection tanks

that my friends is an organic garden

so last night we got to reap what we sow

from our garden we got
tomatoes
basil
rosemary
shallots
garlic
egg plants

my wife she made her own tomato sauce using mollies tomato sauce
recipe
secret ingredients i think are fresh ingredients and brandy

then
she cooked us mollies recipe of eggplant parmesan from her cook book
primi piatti by mollie ahlstrand

i know mollie is a great cook in her restaurant in montecita california
and she has written this great italian cookbook
but
i dont think she could have cooked an eggplant parmesan that tasted
this good
with ingredients that were just minutes from growing on the plants and
vines

yes the absolutely best eggplant parmesan
ive ever tasted

we reaped what we sowed

the organicgreen doctor

primi piatti

PRIMI PIATTI

this is mollie ahlstrand
she is the chief at trattoria mollie's in montecito california
ask opra or presidient obama about her and they will
tell you about her restaurant and her story

this picture is from amazon.coms feature of this new book
on cooking italian food her style
organic simple easy to cook fresh ingredients cooking that this
organicgreen doctor easily did

mollie cooked the meal for my sons wedding party as she is a
friend of my daughterinlaws family

her story and her book and her cooking are a special story thats
told in this book

read it and the words i can do it will be understood

she speaks at least 3 languages is a fireball in the kitchen and
in real life and is a successful business women

so from page 43 of her book it took this recipe and got all the
ingredients together-tomato sauce shallots garlic onions pepper flakes some salt
and olive oil including swiss chard the main ingredient

this large quantity of swiss chard i cut from my garden
swiss chard is a plant that keeps on giving
i plant it in my garden and it lasts sometimes up to 2 years
i plant them usually twice a year and keep several plants going all year
we use them in salads when the leaves are small and the larger leaves
are used in recipes like this or in greens cooked in the crockpot with
kale asian greens asian cabbage etc
probably one of the most proliferative and healthiest plants you can
put in your garden
cook this recipe and youll agree

the salad is mostly from our garden
lettuce spinach kale green onions
organically grown avocado form my surfing brotherinlaws orchard
and then the only unhealthy but delicious fried green tomato from
threadgills restaurant in austin

overall a quite tasty meal mostly from my winter garden

thanks mollie for this simple delicious italian meal
and the excellent cookbook

the organicgreen doctor