2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 78 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 288 left. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch subjects:

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Bottoms up:

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Brilliant color on this here last Day of Winter:

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And ready for Delicious!:

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The Gotch

[Whwoz]

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Tonight's dinner at work, featuring a BLT with one of my Bowerbird Yellows, alongside the usual garden sorrel and short cut bacon, plus a bit more salad, an egg and 'roo burger

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

@Whwoz, NICE sunny-looking Yeller, there. Along with the Brownie/Purple (whose smoky taste is preferred by the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch) I went with a Reddy last week after fondling any number of Yellers; I'll be going with the latter this week.

Can't find anything about the Bowerbird Yellow, though; is it an Aussie thing?

Speaking of Aussie things, is a 'Roo Burger what I think it is?

The Gotch

[Whwoz]

@Cornelius_Gotchberg, Bowerbird Yellow is a personal selection of mine that I have been growing for 5 or 6 generations now, initially selected from a commercially available yellow down here called Low Acid Yellow. We liked that one, which grew and produced until June one year, so I saved seeds. By chance a year or two later, a rugose leaf Dwarf grew from these seeds. I had not grown any Dwarves before so no chance of a mix up. I have grown these since most, but not every year and they now seem reasonably stable, or did until this year. Typically around the 250 -300g/8.5 to 10.5 oz size, meaty with a little bit of juice, but not enough to turn sandwich bread mushy. This season it has thrown a wobbly at me, in the form of an orange fruit on two of the plants. Everything else about the plants and fruit are the same, except that these orange ones maybe slightly juicer. Still the same yummy taste and fruit size, plants virtually identical, around the 1m/3ft4in tall, rugose leaf dwarves. Need to save seed under a separate tag name, still undecided.

A 'roo burger just hops onto your plate, yummy, a bit gamey and we eat a lot of it. Those critters have really benefited from white mans presence in the land, at least the ones culled for food have, thanks to all the extra water and grass about.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 85 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 285 remain. @Whwoz's last week's Yeller prompted a shift:

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Flip Side:

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Tequila Sunrise:

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Assembled and Ready to Go:

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Both were uncommonly flavorful.

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Domingo again. Damn it’s hard to beat a BLT

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Domingo again. Damn it’s hard to beat a BLT

Yeah buddy! And spread out over lovely lettuce (variety?) like that? Whatta way to go, am I right?

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 92 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 274 to go. Today's No Foolin' Monday Morning BLT Brunch selections:

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Down under:

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The Reddy was spared, the Bi-Color was firm, beautimous, and smelled great:

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And tasty? Oy!

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The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 99 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!; 267 left. Monday Morning BLT Brunch headliners:

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Down Under:

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The Yeller lives on, while the Reddy is deep, royally striking crimson:

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Come-N-Get-It!

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The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Smashed caramelized croissant used top and bottom on Pablo Batavian lettuce and Green Giant.

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

@Mark_Thompson; our Green Giant seedling just came up yesterday...can't hardly wait!

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 106 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 260 left to go, and this week's installment of Monday Morning BLT Brunch.
Last week's Yeller paired with a Bi-Color newbie:

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The 180:

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Coupla Lookers, am I right?:

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That there Yeller was one of the tastiest store bought'n EVAH; firm, flavorful, and a citrusy hint, to boot!

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The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 113 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 253 left, and a special Earth Day Monday Morning BLT Brunch:
Today's participants:

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Over easy:

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GREAT firmness! And is that there some dazzling color, or what:

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Who wouldn't want to sit down to this?

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The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Green Giant and Maruba Santoh the past two weeks in a row. The village elders told me that was a good lettuce substitute and they weren’t wrong. GG is too juicy to be a perfect BLT fruit, but it’ll do.

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

GG is too juicy to be a perfect BLT fruit, but it’ll do.

HeyZeus Alou...beautimous! That there GG is a gosh darn WEDGE of a SLAB! Have you's tried using it when it's just a tad under-ripe and/or scooping out the gel & seeds?

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

@Cornelius_Gotchberg Haven’t. That is a good idea though. Gonna make another one today but I think I’ll be using Sweet Ozark Orange, need a little variety in my life.