Report from South Kona

Hanging low on the lower patio , breeze blowing cool thru the shade . Warm sunlight dancing around the green leaves and fronds of the Coconut tree . Red , yellow . pink and orange with a bit of blue and purple flowers and foliage breaking the dark and light greens . Vapor going , Latte cooling , chimes tinkling ground slightly moist from the late night tropical rain . Sunday so easy to just be , feet sticking out in a nice warm sunny patch . Another bit of serenity , Moments .

Flashing white on the light blue midday sea , wind puffing up small caps and the still softly textured surface . The afternoon calls for a unplanned destination , perhaps with the Kites , since today most people stay in and many places are gloriously empty with few or no people . We don’t watch ( shhh it’s boring ) the whole spectacle .

Last night did a little BBQ making a kind of Greek Chicken , olive oil and Greek basil from the garden first with the chicken for a while . Butternut squash , split and each side filled with Olive oil and just a small piece butter , just about a teaspoon of Brown sugar . Placed on the fire first along with a whole bunch of fresh garlic still in the wrapper and a whole slightly sweet tropical lemon . As the chicken grilled , fresh green beans and broccoli were thrown on top with a few small sweet peppers .

After cooking the chicken was chopper up and tossed with the Vegetables. The garlic now soft is easy to squeeze out , little soft roasted cloves of happiness . The Squash now soft is spooned in a bowel a bit of the garlics and a squeeze of the lemon , now filled with a soft carmelized lemony goodness after roasting , mixed in . The rest of garlic and lemon mixed with the Chicken and vegetables tossed about a bit . The squash came out sweet , with that nice butternut flavor and didn’t last long .

The garden has some new things coming up , here come check———–

Garden Blog

Peace and Love Steve

Harvested just after filming , large amount of a variety of basil , made a very nice pesto. Small amount of the first green beans , a few pea pods and pineapple sage. The left over herbs , that were not used in the pesto, are all drying for future use .

This is the lastest harvest from the Puka garden. Greek Basil, Big Leaf Basil, Below Sweet Pea Pods, Next Top Pineapple Sage , Below that Kentuky Mint and some Cilantro. Almost Every Night Something is Harvested. Since Chris is in London we finally get a couple of peapods, he usually picks them every day when he gets home and eats them right away.

Purple basil , Greek Basil , Oregano, Cilantro .