#wild grape

[inthecityofgoodabode]

May 2024: Kebab Weekend

It might not look like it but this thin line of trees between a highway and a field filled with utility lines is a much needed habitat especially for birds:

"As swift as the swallow that flies through that air." - The Creggan White Hare by Daoiri Farrell:

Squirrels are sloppy eaters. Squirrel planted sunflower:

Saturday dinner - salad, grilled vegetables with steak, chorizo & shrimp:

The art of imbuing food with smoke flavor on a gas grill. This is a roughly 50/50 mixture of pecan & apple wood. The pecan is strong like hickory, oak & mesquite while the apple is sweet & light. The blend renders a smoke flavor that is balanced like a beautiful katana crafted by a master. The blackened pieces are wood chunks that have seen one or more grillings. The water, with its minute particles of ash, is retained & poured into our compost bins. Nothing is wasted... only transformed:

Maybe we'll get grapes this year:

More squirrel planted sunflowers. Given the effort that my queen & I have put into trying to grow sunflowers in previous years, it is a little annoying that the squirrels managed it by just being sloppy eaters:

My 3 minute egg timer that I've started using to time when I'm grilling. My queen likes her steak well done. On our gas grill, 16 to 18 minutes produces a well done steak that is still juicy. She says I could teach the cooks at the local steakhouses a thing or two about cooking a well done steak properly:

Sunday dinner. My queen requested more grilled delights. This time the protein was chicken:

[starchbean]

Wild grape leaf dolmas

My uncle’s yard is full of wild grape vines, and the leaves were large and looked like they were in good shape this year, so I picked a few to make dolmades. I ended up with more filling than leaves, so I took a short detour to the neighborhood commons to pick up a few extra leaves from the wild vines growing out there.

These are the fresh leaves I just grabbed tonight.

The leaves from my uncle’s place had been soaking in a jar of saltwater for a week or so, so they were quite a bit easier to fold than the fresh ones.

They say to go for a leaf about the size of a spread out hand for making these.

Photo of them cooking in the pot 

Final product.

Recipe: Chopped 1 large yellow onion and a handfull of green onions, fried in a generous amount of olive oil until soft. Then cooked 2 lbs of ground pork breakfast sausage in the onion until browned, then add 1 and 1/2 cups of short grain brown rice and 2/3 cup wild rice and fry for 2 mins before adding 3 cups of water and cooking until the water is gone. Allow the mix to cool.

Once cooled, I added chopped cinnamon basil, common sage, monarda, and lemon balm, salt and pepper, a generous amount of dried garlic mustard, lemon zest, juice of 1/2 lemon, and one egg (I should have gone with 2 eggs)

Then put 1 tablespoon approximately of this into each leaf and wrap and roll it. A heaping tablespoon for the bigger leaves, and slightly less for the smaller leaves. 

Line a big pot with grape leaves at the bottom and a layer of lemon rinds. Set the dolmas atop that, put a small lid or plate on top to keep them from coming apart and moving around, and cover with water. Cook for 45 mins on a simmer, then cool and enjoy!

Raspberries will be ready here in a week or two--so excited about that coming up! 

[ryuden2]

山葡萄、カフェ、長野、絵、イラスト、

Wild grapes, Nagano,drawing,art,color pencil

[rachelsrandomsphotos]

Wild Muscadine Grapes (Vitis rotundifolia)

Taken at Malabar Scrub Sanctuary in Malabar, FL

[rosechata]

salmonberries and wild grapes

[jadafitch]

Belted kingfisher. Fun fact, females have a reddish belly band and the males do not. One of the rare instances where the female bird is the flashier one.

[los-plantalones]

My super secret grape spot is slowwwwly turning purple 🍇

These here are fox grapes, aka frost grapes because after the first frost they get very sweet – before that they’re pretty tart.

But like most other wild fruits, you GOTTA taste them before picking them. Sometimes they taste like the most delightful grape jelly of your life. Sometimes they’re acidic as hell. Other times they’re just okay.

But honestly – i haven’t met any wild grape that doesn’t make an awesome jam, jelly, or syrup. It just depends on if you want to eat them fresh!

[bonebabbles]

Check the shipwreck of the boat you sailed in on, lmao. The one that sunk just after you got onto the dock. There's a furnace there you can salvage.

And don't worry I find several people actually get stuck on this one, they give you a hint but some people don't catch it. Once you have this furnace, any other furnaces you find won't matter as much until Early Access since they're not used in a ton of recipes.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 23 October 2023

The vigorous deciduous climber Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper, American ivy, American woodbine, false grape, five-leaved ivy, wild wood vine) provides vivid autumn colour. Here the stems look great tumbling from this tree in a garden setting but care has to be taken as this is classified in the U.K. as an invasive non-native plants.

Jill Raggett

[anamdreams69]

OL GOAT LADIES NIGHT!!!11!! (they are hving fun...)

(so i have a idea that classic Toriel nicknames fell Toriel "Rosey", just like classic Sans nicknames fell Sans "Red", but for classic Toriel is more of out affection.)

[doomspaniels]

Live-action Aesop's Fables

(note: there are no grapes, sour or otherwise, on the grapevine)

[kazieka]

like, logically I am aware that honeysuckle is invasive in my area and that I should be glad it doesn’t grow in my backyard, But. on the other hand. tasty nectar treat :(

[prolibytherium]

The fact that you can make wine out of basically any fruit is so endlessly enthralling to me like why are we so stuck on grapes what's so great about them anyway. #Fuck grapes

[gatorinator]

As someone who eats a salad every day for lunch, Brennan’s comment about a salad taking him 40 minutes to get through was so real . . . Yes it does take me a dedicated 25 to get through my lunch. And that’s if I’m dedicated. There are so many leaves I have to chew.

[uxbridge]

Many old conifers on this trail through the glade

[morethansalad]

Harvest Wild Rice Salad (Vegan)