Yes, it’s called a Plant Nanny, and I’ve got a whole mess of 'em!
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Well, we all know I’ve got the empty wine bottles to use in them! 
I’ve just added this to my Amazon shopping list. Going to get some for my sister as well, as she grows tomatoes at her house, but has to have someone water them if they go up to their cabin in Maine for a week in the summer.
Thanks for posting about them!
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Same, same.
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Striploin was on sale at the local grocery store, cut kinda thin so a really quick sear was in order.
Roasted garlic/parm mashed potatoes/buttered broccoli and some sautéed mushrooms and onions in the leftover “demi” from my beef shank braise.
Not too shabby for a $6 steak. 
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Seafood for dinner~
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Errands in the rain after a late wake-up and get-up-and-go.
Dinner had to be a use-up-before-it-goes-bad and a reuse of leftovers. So Beef Stroganoff, with the remaining beef tenderloin and some cremini mushrooms about to go into soft and squishy mode, was on the menu.
Served on egg noodles with leftover broccoli alongside. An over-sprinkle of paprika, but it didn’t harm it any.
There was wine.
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Homemade Hawaiian pizza with dough purchased from our local pizza parlor. Not shabby but would benefit from par-cooking the crust.
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I had one solitary green pepper to use up and some ground beef and leftover rice in the freezer so I made a stuffed pepper with corn on the side. I went to Chinatown this afternoon to replenish some of my Asian ingredients so I picked up some egg rolls while I was there.
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Senate Bean Soup. Irish soda bread (with a nod to @ChristinaM). Salad greens in vinaigrette.
I haven’t made this particular soup since the night of the 2016 elections, when I assumed it would be a fitting way to celebrate the first female elected into the US presidential office. Sadly, my team did not win that night, and it’s taken me over 7 years to look a bowl of Senate Bean Soup in the eye again.
Best of luck to all of us in 2024 – it’s an election year.
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I enjoyed some more mouth watering takeout from Bloom Chicken in Verona, NJ, including a monster spicy chicken sandwich with Sweet & Spicy Chicken Patty, Cheese Sauce, Lettuce, Pickled Red Onion, with Horseradish Aioli; truffle fries; crunchy fried chicken drumsticks with SOS Korean spicy sauce, and garlic soy sauce. I also ordered some crispy pork dumplings. It all went great with an excellent inexpensive red blend.
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Holy cats, those drummies look extra-crispy and good!
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Tonight’s dinner was cubed pork pressure cooked in Apple-Peach-Mango juice with ginger and cayenne pepper. Originally, the plan was to serve it over rice, but Sunshine said she’s had enough rice for awhile. So… this delicious pork was served with a side of tater tots and some peas.
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What is the yellow stuff on the dumplings?
For the win!
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Cheese sauce and sweet and spicy sauce.
Friends hosted a holiday HH soirée on Thursday: deviled eggs, assorted cheeses, patés, dips & festive libations.
Yesterday I had to drive down to Hershey to see a specialist in the hopes of maybe getting some relief from/solutions to chronic pain I’ve been dealing with for most of this year (a flareup from an injury I suffered in 2020 IYCBY!). No particularly helpful insight, and not much besides trying PT before surgery is a consideration - which may also not solve the issue. YAY!
A member of one of my Fb food groups had recommended a small Greek diner near the medical center that seems to mostly be doing takeout/delivery service. We grabbed a gyros pita to share before our drive back home, and also picked up an order each of melitsanosalata and tyrokafteri. A baklava cheesecake was purchased out of pure curiosity, but we haven’t tried it yet.
The pita was just ok - skimpy on the meat, heavy on tzatziki (mine’s a million times better, too). The dips were nice. We tried them after coming home from a couple of drinks I absolutely needed at the gay bar, along with a buncha steamed dumplings.
It’s our buddy’s birfday today, and I believe the plan is to go out somewhere and celebrate this occasion & the fact that the stupid students are all still gone 
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Friday night dinner was pasta pillows of happiness. Or more recognizably, ravioli filled with greens and cheese in a sauce of mushrooms and arugula.
We’d made a pilgrimage to Pastaio via Corta in Gloucester, MA for handmade filled pasta (Thursdays and Saturdays only).
I thought the pasta might hold or freeze for a New Year’s Eve dinner. The chef-owner advised that her pasta is meant to be served fresh, so pronto it was. Stone ground wheat from the Northeast US and being handmade in her shop made this pasta worthy of a mini road trip for us.
Check out this paper tray, lined with plenty of semolina, to keep the ravioli from sticking together. Yeah, our pasta consumption would rise considerably if I lived near Pastaio.
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We make a point to stop into Talluto’s at the Italian market in Philly, which sells wonderful stuffed pasta, housemade sauces, and all kinds of other delicacies.
Their plain ricotta ravs are so good we grabbed 3 trays this time around. I don’t even care much for ricotta, but these are, as you say, pillows of happiness 
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