Marty

As I've not been feeling the best this week, I've not been up to taking lots of photographs... Anyway, before Val has to remind me, I went back this evening and looked at the few photos I took of a head cabbage I harvested the other day, and came up with the following edit for my week 24 (out of 52) monochrome photo challenge:

Take your pick, sweetie....

Greetings, Page!

And you, Gary!

You can have anything you want. Just wave that magic wand of yours, and sprinkle fairy dust everywhere..

Certainly! I'll eat your slice.

Apparently, at least according to this website, green tomato pie is also sometimes called mock apple pie. The only thing I've ever made from green tomatoes has been chutney. Never having tried green tomato pie, I wouldn't be able to comment on the taste. But when people refer to how something tastes they are very often referring more to the flavour (taste and smell) and texture of the food, rather than just what their taste buds tell them. Considering traditional green tomato pie is a sweet dessert, with sugar added, it doesn't really surprise me that it may finish up "tasting" a bit like apple pie. Personally, if I were to think about using green tomatoes in a pie, I'd probably go for a savoury pie rather than a sweet one; maybe something along the lines of the following: https://savorva.com/red-truck-bakery-green-tomato-pie-recipe/

@Valkyrie.....

Heading out for the evening. Voluntary work. Probably not be back for another 5 hours or so (close to midnight, my time). Later, gang!

Nothing like a plateful of traditional boiled bacon and cabbage... Recipe (including video): https://www.cooksacademy.com/dublin_cooks_recipes/irish_food_and_dublin_cooking_classes/boiled_bacon_with_cabbage_and_carrots.html

Sweet dreams, Mr B

Aragh... I'm sure that would be easy-peasy

https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/12/04/brusselssprouts/

Well, everyone's got different palates.

Yea... Just reread it. I thought at first you were telling Gary to do it for me.

I'm quite capable of manscaping him myself....

It just needs to be prepared correctly, bro. Same as the poor misunderstood Brussel sprout.

I've never managed to get to San Francisco, but I hope to one day. If only to celebrate the Summer of Love that happened in the year I turned twenty...

Yup. Similar images are making the news this side of the pond, Albert...

Hey, Gary! Cute hat.

Looks like you'll have a riot of colour in the spring, clo! I actually bought a one stone (14 pound weight or 6.35kg) net of daffodils (narcissi) yesterday from the garden centre. British grown (hence the imperial weight) and of the variety Golden Trumpet (aka: King Alfred). I'm going to plant them in clumps around the garden and let them naturalise. Oddly there are no existing daffodils in the garden

Howdy, Albert!

Hi, dughlas! There's a definite autumnal feel to the weather here these days. The leaves are beginning to turn, the weather certainly feels cooler, especially first thing in the morning, and I can certainly notice the hours of daylight getting shorter as we move towards the equinox. I'd just be happier if we were getting a bit more sunshine. I need to use glasses for reading, and I'm fortunate that my two eyes are both at the same strength (or weakness), which means my optician has told me I can buy the cheap reading glasses available in supermarkets and discount stores. I can pick them up in the UK for £1 a pair, or even in Ireland at around €1.50. I like to get the ones with narrow lenses, so I can look down to read, or look over them to focus on things (or people) further away. Although much of the time they're just perched on my forehead, ready to be pulled down when needed. Happy Thursday, everyone!

Yes. But in this case just by selecting from the available gene pool from within the members of a particular species; not actually adding genetic material from other, and often not even closely related, species. (Although I do, somewhere, have a paper I wrote in the final year of my Botany degree course at university, with a title something along the lines of The Role of Hybridisation in Plant Evolution. It didn't actually involve any new research, being more of a review of the existing literature on the subject.)