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I am struggling to keep this blog going.  I work on it almost everyday and have posted over 1500 posts.

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I started this blog with a great passion for baking and cooking handed down from generations of time spent with my grandmother and mother in their kitchens.

Please share this post and encourage those you share with to take a look at what I have to give to young and old alike and allow yourself some relax time to also see my travels and experiences from 2011.

I also share family time which is and will always be the most rewarding and fulfilling time through the years.

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Here I am below in my daughter's kitchen preparing our salad to go along with a great dish of pasta.

My son Mark in my kitchen at Christmas cooking the ravioli he made.

My granddaughters and I getting ready to make pepperoni rolls.

  

My daughter and I  are ready to serve Sunday dinner.

My daughter Susan's first cappelletti making experience.

Making gnocchi.

******Just a little reminder to say all it takes to make some delicious meatballs is good meat(Chuck(80% beef) pork and veal or meatloaf mix will work fine), eggs, bread crumbs, parsley, good Pecorino Romano cheese, minced garlic , a little milk to hold the ingredients together, salt and pepper.  Note: about 1 tsp. salt to 1 lb. of beef. Bake or fry the meatballs.  It's all going to be delicious.  Add the meatballs to your sauce.  My favorite sauce recipes are easy to find in the Label section of the blog.

 

                                                            

 

My Zinnia Garden 2020

A Very Happy Day to everyone.

If you enjoy flowers of any type and enjoy a very pleasant way to start your summer day.  Think Zinnias.  Easy to grow and so beautiful to wake up in the morning to these beautiful timeless beauties.

They are very easy to grow.  All you need is some healthy seeds and a little effort.  I use my zinnias as a backdrop to my shrubs as well as plant in containers.  

Here's what I do and you can too!

Whether your soil is healthy or not so healthy decide where you want to plant the seeds.  Wait until after May 31st.(around Memorial Day) or after so there is no possibility of frost or very cold soil temperatures.

My planting of my seeds is very simple and I will show in pictures what I do.

I first decide where I will enjoy them the most and I am lucky to have several windows I can look at them from inside and I can enjoy them everyday outside.

When you decide the location. I sprinkle a little basic garden(annual perennial fertilizer in the soil and rake it in.   Then get a garden tool or a large end of a screwdriver and make about a quarter of an inch indentation in the soil.

 Sprinkle your seeds in that indentation and cover the seeds LIGHTLY with good garden soil.  From that point water the area LIGHTLY (a fine mist) is the best for about a week or two or until you seeds the seedings start to surface.  Be patient!  They start to come through the ground pretty soon.  It all depends on sun and weather.

Once the seedings appear continue to water everyday unless you get enough rain then let them be.  From that point when I see them I fertilize about once a week with Miracle Gro until the plants are established.   Your garden of zinnias will grow faster than you think.  

Enjoy your garden and I hope 2021 will be your best Zinnia Garden ever.

Let me know how they grow in your garden.

P.s I also plant some in containers following the same instructions.

FYI:  You can start your seeds in early May if you would like but I have found it to be unnecessary once the ground is warm they grow quite quickly.

Happy Gardening from my garden to yours.

My Garden plants 2020

Here I am again saying this will be my last year to plant flowers and fuss with all that
Goes with it.  NOT!  This summer has been hot and dry so I can only imagine my water bill!

One more year to add to my love of gardening.

From my Garden to yours,