What is Capt. Kangaroo you ask?
He was a childrens program before the digital age or before cable.
This was back in the day long long ago when parents controlled the television.
There were not 100 channels dedicated to children 24/7.
You got cartoons on Saturday for 1/2 a day.
Then every weekday morning there was Capt. Kangaroo and his band of misfits.
Mr. Green Jeans was the gardener. (Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit and Grandfather Clock to name a few)
Today picking my veggies off my little ole patio I felt like Mr. Green Jeans without the overalls.
Here are my pablano's peppers. These bad boys will be stuffed and grilled tonight.
I put it in my hand so you can see the size. And no my hands are not tiny.
My jalapeno's below - which I had a tiny bit of in my scrambled eggs this morning.
Yep I like spicy.
My garlic bulbs aren't huge but they work.
These bad boys are so tasty right off the vine. But I will be roasting a great many of them. Hmm....I'm telling you if you have never slow roasted tomatoes you just don't know what you are missing. Sweet as sugar. The last time we did a baguette on the grill and then with the garlic that was roasted and mixed with butter on the baguette. Then you add the roasted tomatoes. And if you like I have fresh basil to top it all off with it.
The neighbors that were here that night said they were never going home. It's that good! Wanna come over? well c'mon over then. You bring the wine.
13 comments:
That sounds yummy! I need to hook up a timer to water my garden because I keep not getting around to it. I'm sure everything would be growing 100x better if I watered every day.
I surely do remember Mr. Green Jeans.
Mike, yep you me and Bilbo. :-)
Julie - as you know it is freezing most days in my house. i go outside to water just to get warm. :-)
Well, Ms Green Jeans, I guess I need to put up some pictures of the things coming out of my garden. We'll have lots of tomatoes soon, but only a few red bell peppers and no green ones. We have herbs out the wazoo: sage, thyme, mint, dill, basil, and chives are growning like mad, and the rosemary is slowly starting to catch up. The deer are munching on my acorn squash, so I don't know if we'll get anything there ... I guess we'll see.
Oh I am green with envy Mr. Bilbo. I don't have a yard. I have a patio and mine are small boxes. I do what I can. I so wish I had a big ole garden. When I lived in Seattle I rented "pea pods" and it was glorious. I'd get a house just to have a garden. In this "stepford" neighborhood we can't have gardens even if I had a house. Nazi HOA!
Yep - I definitely remember Mr. Greenjeans. We had a show called "Romper Room" too, with the "Do Bee" and the "Don't Bee" All pre-Sesame Street, I'm sure.
You have the makings of an awesome salsa there too! We also like to take the Jalapenos, slice the tops off, core them out then stuff them with Italian sausage, onions & a bit of cream cheese, then put them in the smoker for an hour or so while the ribs are cooking. Converted both daughters-in-law to jalapeno lovers with that one.
Brian
Hey Brian - I also remember Romper Room. Yep all before Sesame Street.
NOrmally we do sausage and cream cheese and onions in our poblano's but this time we did it differently. We used Boursin cheese (garlic and herb)instead of cream cheese and very crispy pancetta. Oh yea it was good! I think I'll use boursin from now on if I have it. I love jalapeno's stuffed as well. But only 1 was ready so I used it another way. I love spicy and hot a bit more than rick. I made the mistake one time of stuffing them with hot sausage. I thought he was gonna die. His forehead was sweating. Ooops.
so now only sweat sausage in jalapeno's for him!
oops - not sweat sausage but SWEET sausage. oh that's funny.
I'm really impressed! I can't grow anything. And you grew them all on a patio too! I hope they taste as good as they look.
LLCJ - oh they did. Next time I will take photo's of the plate. :-)
I am impressed - rivals my husband's crop so far this year. Well done!
wooo! happy july 4th.
yes, i know it's august first. i'm a little behind. so sue me.
wooo! happy july 4th.
yes, i know it's august first. i'm a little behind. so sue me.
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