sprouts!

Things are growing!  The weather got a little colder this weekend, but I've been keeping an eye on it and so far we haven't gone below 45 at night.  And during the day it's been in the 70's, though today was colder.  Anyway, I have stuff growing!  No sign of the carrots yet, but my beets and lettuce mix are sprouting!

Tiny lettuce leaves -

I also have beet sprouts -

I am still waiting on carrots; I think I may have planted them too deep but I'll give them another week or so to see.  I am planning on going to Lowe's again in April and picking up another container for my cucumbers and a big one for tomatoes and then going to buy a tomato plant or two.

Tonight I baked bread for the first time - I used a recipe I found here that I dug up via Pinterest.  I took before photos with the full intention of blogging about it, but when it came out of the oven I was so excited that I dug in immediately and didn't take any "after" shots!   I also made a variation on a lentil soup recipe I also found via Pinterest (here) which is a "mushroom and lentil" soup but mine was really more a potato and lentil soup.  I didn't have any mushrooms nor any red wine (sob!) so basically I just put in potatoes instead and also omitted the tomatoes, swiss chard, and onion and used a veggie stock as a base vs. just water.  Yeah, so maybe I just used the recipe as a starting point.  :P  It came out really good, I'm not sure if it was the veggie stock, the dill, or the bay leaves?  I will probably make this again this summer in another attempt to like swiss chard.  I got a lot of it in my CSA box last year, and I dunno what I was doing wrong but it never came out well.  It always tasted bitter and gross.  So maybe if I throw it in some soup with some mushrooms it will redeem itself.  Mushrooms redeem anything, in my opinion.

I have been hoping to blog more than once a week, but I am still in rehearsal for As You Like It and often that and work is about all I can get done Monday-Friday.  I have more down time between work and rehearsal for this show (rehearsal doesn't start until 7, most of my previous shows have been at 6:30) but I use the down time to cook dinner/eat dinner/feed cats/knit and then I don't get home until after 10 pm.  I am about three-fourths done with my second sock ever, so soon I will have a matching pair!  But after As You Like It opens, I have no shows lined up until Richard II starts rehearsal sometime in July, so maybe there will be more-than-weekly blog entries in May and June!  :)