Close to Tampa (9b) and its just too hot and hunid with too much rain to grow anything, even for the commercial folks.
So we start our gardens in October, ans we usually get two cycles before it gets hot again.
Citrus from November to April.
Strawberries November to March
6 months of tomatoes.
Alas a very short window for peas and broccoli…and a few days of worrying about frost.
Daktoritang or Spicy Korean Braised Chicken and Vegetables based on a recipe from Milk Street - chicken thighs get marinated in a mixture of gochujang, rice vinegar, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, garlic, scallion whites and ginger. Afterwards cooked with potatoes, carrots and some water in the pressure cooker. Finished with some toasted sesame seeds and oil and scallion greens. Served over rice
And for dessert - Yesterday’s egg white excess from
spaghetti carbonara become coconut macaroons based a recipe from Alice Medrich - egg white, coconut flakes, sugar, vanilla extract and salt get heated in a water bath, cooled down, portioned and baked in the oven
Beautiful! I’ll soon be ready for my next corn chowder, too 
Thanks! I didn’t realize it got that hot in Florida during the summer or balmy enough in the winter for a growing season. I only went to Florida once when I was in high school (early 1980s) with my high school band. We played at Disney World and Sea World as well as a few other theme parks. (I just named the two parks I remember 
) We didn’t do much sightseeing, sadly, so I never got to know the state very well.
Give me a plate of those and I’m in heaven.
UGH! Sorry to hear this. Glad you had a good remediator. Fingers crossed it all gets fixed very soon!
THIS is my perfect dinner. Wow.
It’s a pretty handy dish to have in your arsenal. Mine is a hybrid between two versions.
This…
…and this
Both of these recipes shared by @MunchkinRedux are also in my regular rotation as well as the fried cabbage and noodles dish posted on Budget Bytes.
thank you! The BF’s dental issues would probably prohibit him from eating this, sadly, but I could make it for me and my sister - just put the chili crisp on mine alone.
Is that where saffron the spice comes from? (Probably yes due to the name of the plant.) I don’t garden…
I found out last night a farm in Quebec is growing ginger which is not common in Canada because our climate isn’t mild enough. This is a link to the video story that was shown on CBC last night.
Couldn’t keep anything down.
@Amandarama Do you have access to fresh or dried peri peppers? I haven’t found them, so I used TJ’s peri peri sauce with some Aleppo and Urfa chili flakes.
Bummer. Better today I hope?
This is the one I’ve used. VERY simple - and it worked with ground lamb back in July.
UGH. Those types of “diets” are never fun. I hope it’s a good bit better now!
I cannot figure out what “Ncima” means. Please help me. I have to laugh at myself when I cannot determine what an acronym or abbreviation means. That is because I do all types of crossword puzzles.
Your potatoes look wonderful. And the baby kale is gorgeous.
I used Nando’s peri-peri sauce, which we stock up on when we travel in British Columbia. I thought it worked fine.
I’ve made it also with chicken, beef (and/or pork). Seems to work well with a variety of proteins.
