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Aug

First harvest

by HML

The Gimlet and Thing One are going to WashJam this weekend, while the Team Gimlet: At Home Unit will hopefully spend a quiet few days recovering from the souvenir cold or flu brought back from the last scout camp.

But before we got sick, we harvested chives from Thing Two’s garden to use in our Sunday dinner.  Thing Two was very excited that his garden had a role to play in the meal, and carefully supervised the cutting (“My chives are getting a haircut!”) and preparation of his precious crop.

The tomatoes are getting redder and redder, but aren’t quite ready to be picked yet.  As for the mint, we’re thinking about making some mint jelly; any other ideas for putting our mint to good use?

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2 Responses to “First harvest”

  1. masha
    August 26th, 2009 10:02
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    Congratulations thing One. We like to make mint lemonade around here. You’ll need 4-6 lemons (or limes), 2 quarts of water, sugar to taste and big handful of mint leaves. Crush the mint leaves with lemon juice and sugar on the bottom of the pitcher, add water, remove leaves after a few minutes because if they sit in water too lone they will give it a grassy taste. Your cousins love to make this lemonade.

  2. HML
    August 26th, 2009 10:42
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    That sounds wonderful! We’ll have to give that a try.
    Reminds me of Thing One when he was Thing Two’s age, picking lemons in Grandma & Grandpa Gimlet’s back yard in Thousand Oaks to make lemonade with Grandma … I miss those lemons!
    Thanks!