I finally got around to making a proper birthday cake for Anna: three layers of sponge, with whipped cream, strawberries and blueberries. Anna couldn't resist putting it together herself.
We got the rest of our plants in: San Marzano tomatoes, 3 varieties of peppers (2 hot, 1 sweet), 2 more varieties of basil, more annual flowers and seeds, chard, cippollini onions, and maybe others that I am forgetting. We bought haricot vert seeds, which will soon replace the broccoli rabe. And we harvested our first batch of chamomile.
In other plant news, the orchids are multiplying, the catmint had aphids (unusual - generally you can't get rid of catmint and one of the plants was sucked dry before I realized it), and there has been no sign of powdery mildew this year, although I preemptively got rid of a lot of rudbeckia since that was the weak link last year.
Memorial Day dinner could not have been less traditional: the squid tubes looked great at Whole Foods the day before, so I made fried salt and pepper squid and Anna made four delicious dipping sauces to go with. We rounded out the anti-cookout with artichokes and elderflower cordial (opened the last jar from last year's canning effort) to drink.
Last weekend I moved from my apartment in Concord to a little house in Henniker. Right on the Contoocook River. I don't know how I ever lived without the constant sound of rushing water and a view like this from my back door. Can't wait to get my kayak up to NH.
Speaking of NH, I took this photo of Nick's Restaurant in Winchester...
Oh, the irony that just one short month ago I was taking photos of beautiful medieval buildings and a cathedral in Winchester England, and now I'm taking photos of an enormous blow-up crab on top of a building in Winchester New Hampshire!
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