The Practical Omnivore

Here in the southern United States, temperatures are just beginning to dip.  In fact, we had the first frosts last week but today it's comfortable in the 70's. 

Last week, the freezing temps sent me scurrying around to save the tomatoes and eggplant in the garden.  I don't think I'll be able to fend off the inevitable entrance of winter-like weather much longer but I've been successful so far.

The first evening that it was forecast to really dip into the thirties, I covered the things I could and harvested a few things that I couldn't.  

When Steak and Taters Guy and I sat down for dinner that evening at the dinner table which had one end obscured by greenery, he asked, with a marginally pained expression, "If that was a bushel of wheat?"  I answered, "It's the lemongrass I harvested so it wouldn't freeze.  Now I will dry it for tea."  Mr. Steak and Taters continued to eat his dinner with little comment about the lemongrass as exchanges such as these are very common at our house but often leave him as mystified as ever.



Stop by some weekend and we'll have a bit of organically grown lemongrass and mint tea.  I should have enough to share.