Summer has finally arrived, and I'm none too thrilled. Yesterday, I took a look at the garden and discovered the squash needed water ASAP. The peppers were wilting. And it was HOT. Nasty hot. 92F hot. Yeah, I know you southerners laugh, but if you're not used to heat, it gets nasty.
I'm going to the Farmer's Market on Saturday and I was thinking how I should buy more green onions, but then, I remembered I have onions growing right here. So, I picked a couple of onions and replaced them with a couple more of the onions from the onion sets so I could have my own green onions. Yeah, it cost me nothing other than the cost of the sets, but I can keep replenishing my onions. (The onion sets cost me about $2.35 for 50 bulbs. It costs me $1-$2 to buy a bunch of green onions. So, if I get my cooking green onions from the garden twice, I've made up the money I spent on the sets. I can get 10 bunches of green onions per set, so I have saved $8 to $16 on green onions. It's not a lot, but it's a cumulative thing. If I don't have to buy quite as much food, then that is a savings.I also picked some oregano from the garden because I keep forgetting to do so and run out of the fresh stuff while I cook.
Today, I decided to make a cucumber salad with the leftover cucumbers from the Farmer's Market two weeks ago. The type of salad is sunomono, which is a Japanese cucumber salad. It's very good. My recipe is a variation of sunomono that I adapted from one of my Japanese cookbooks. Check it out.
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