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Cooked Lettuce And Snails

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DSC02226 I found this 1/2 inch wide snail on some lettuce.  I vaguely remembered having heard of some rather devastating parasites that can be present in snails in some alternate forms.

DSC02225 Snails are a common gardening problem, and so I decided to cook my lettuce, to be 100% sure that we do not catch any theoretical  parasitic beasties.  I have not seen that snails eat parsley, cilantro, oregano, or marjoram.  In fact these seem to discourage creepy crawlies on nearby plants.  I could find that snails are very common in Texas gardens, and I’ve seen them myself.  I could find no place where snails in Texas gardens are stated to be dangerous online.  Until I find otherwise, I am going to be careful and cook or at least peal raw vegetables from our garden.

The other reason that I cooked the lettuce, is that most of it is old and bitter, even if not bolted.

Here are the keywords I googled to find  the link to the recipe which I used for our Stir Fry Lettuce:  Chinese Stir-Fry Lettuce With Garlic  Recipe .  Rhonda Parkinson, recipe author, tells us that the Chinese always cook their vegetables.  When I think about it, this seems to be my experience.  This five star recipe worked even with our bitter old lettuce!

 

 

Fish for Lunch

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DSC01771 DSC01772 This was a really good lunch, light, healthy, and tasty.  Joe put cubed potatoes into the steamer, and got them started, while he prepared asparagus, green onions, tomatoes, which he placed on top.  Last of all he put on thawed flounder.  He steamed everything until the fish was done, and the vegetables were crisp-tender.

He opened a gift of New York State white wine, saved from the holidays, which was very delicious, and complimented the whole meal.

A Baked Fish Dinner

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Our midday dinner of baked cod, mostly brown rice, and garden salad from yesterday  Our Baked Cod Dinner with brown rice and salad.  The warmth generated by the oven is very nice on a cold day.

Fresh parsley from the garden DSC01619  Even though it sleeted, I could go outside and pick these sprigs of parsley.  They yielded the two tablespoons of minced parsley, which I wanted, along with the two cloves of minced garlic from the store.  to put on the thawed fish.

 Garlic and the parsley chopped up for the fish DSC01621 Minced garlic and parsleyMeyer lemon given to us, half of which is to be used for the fish DSC01622 On top of the fish went the juice of one half a Meyer lemon, a gift.

DSC01623 A pat of butter on top completed the assembly.  This went into a 375 degree oven for fifteen minutes.  A very healthy dinner, and rice is leftover to use tomorrow!  I just love being able to use exactly as much fresh parsley as I would like, and not have to store the rest of a big bunch!  I couldn’t pick any more lettuce to augment the salad, because I had picked most of what is available, until more grows, but it will!