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BEST photos of flowers from my Wild-Garden in 2016

Gust MEES — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:14:35 +0000

Find below, please my BEST photos from my Wild-Garden in 2016 and will get updated as soon as there is NEW stuff

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Tartelettes “Croque-Monsieur”

Gust MEES — Fri, 06 May 2016 17:19:52 +0000

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The Ingredients For “Tartelettes Croque-Monsieur”

Concerning the displayed photos, you will need the following (BUT you could change the sort of cheese and bread…):

White bread (or toast bread)
Ham
1 egg yolk
liquid creme
grated cheese (Emmental or Gruyère)
Cheese, in our example (for BEST taste, my experience) “Chaumes”
- More about Chaumes: http://www.cheese.com/chaumes/

The preparation

The ONLY thing to prepare is to put an egg yolk in a cup, add some liquid creme and mix it with a fork, see photo below please. You need as well to cut the ham in small pieces as well as the cheese (Chaumes).

Check the different step by step actions in the slideshow below please.

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Put the cutout circle of bread into a form
Bring in a bit of mixture of egg yolk and creme
Bring in a bit of grated cheese
Bring in the cut ham
Bring in the cheese (Chaumes for BEST taste…)
Cover the whole again with the mixture of egg yolk and creme

THE Cooking

Preheat the oven on 180°C (356°F). It will take +/- 20 minutes, so stay close to the oven to observe and make sure that on the upper side the cheese is well melt, check photos below please

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Bon appétit

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DOESN’T that look tasty!? It’s delicious, surprise YOUR invites with it; ONLY +/- 30 minutes time involved, while 10 min. work ONLY!

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Spicy Marinade For Chicken AND Meat

Gust MEES — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:47:29 +0000

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The Ingredients For Marinade With Honey

I will propose to YOU two different marinades which I tried out recently: one marinade with honey and one marinade with “Dijon Mustard”. Both are delicious, please find below the ingredients list for both marinades:

To prepare the marinade is very easy, it will be done in 10 minutes ONLY! Take a shallow dish and bring in the following ingredients:

Pepper
Soy sauce
Oyster sauce
Honey
Garlic minced (1 coffee spoon)
Ginger minced (1 coffee spoon)
Olive oil
Thyme
Chilly powder
Piment d’espelette

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Mix now everything with a whisk, taste the marinade and adjust it to YOUR taste… .

OK, the marinade finished now, WE can bring in the chicken wings and chicken drumsticks and later put the shallow dish with the whole into the fridge where WE leave it for +/- 20 hours. You can also ONLY let it 2 hours in the fridge, but as longer as better…

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The Ingredients For Marinade With Honey AND Dijon Mustard

To prepare the marinade is very easy, it will be done in 10 minutes ONLY! Take a shallow dish and bring in the following ingredients, actually THE same as above PLUS the “Dijon Mustard”:

Pepper
Soy sauce
Oyster sauce
Honey
Garlic minced (1 coffee spoon)
Ginger minced (1 coffee spoon)
Olive oil
Thyme
Chilly powder
Piment d’espelette
Dijon Mustard
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Mix now everything with a whisk, taste the marinade and adjust it to YOUR taste… .

I didn’t YET try out this marinade for meat, but will do as soon as the BBQ-Season is open! It tastes very delicious

THE Cooking

YOU can use this on the “BBQ” and/or by cooking them in the oven. Actually (February) I cooked them in the oven. Preheat the oven on 180°C (356°F). It will take +/- 12 minutes, so stay close to the oven to observe when the upper side is nearly brown (+/- 5-6 minutes) and turn the pieces, so that both sides get well brown.

Bon appétit

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Gardening: The Wild-Garden | 2015 | April

Gust MEES — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:10:07 +0000

Click the above image, please, to access the interactive image. Move your mouse pointer over that interactive image; You will see “black spots”, click on them to get to blog post about the seen flowers.

2015 | April Flowers In My Wild-Garden

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THE most IMPORTANT to have early quality flowers is the composition of the soil, check more below, please:

Learn more:

Last photos from 21-04-2015

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Gardening: The Wild-Garden | 2015 | First Flowers | February-March

Gust MEES — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:56:01 +0000

2015 | First Flowers In My Wild-Garden

First flowers started to appear on 07-02-2015, it were as usual every year the “Snowdrops“, followed by the “Crocus” on 28-02-2015 in Luxembourg (Europe).

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Gardening: The Wild-Garden | Names Of The Flowers | Sempervivum | Houseleeks

Gust MEES — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:21:02 +0000

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Text from Wikipedia: Sempervivum /sɛmpəˈvaɪvəm/,^[1] is a genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the Crassulaceae family, known as houseleeks. Other common names include liveforever and hen and chicks. They are succulent perennials forming mats composed of tufted leaves in rosettes. In favourable conditions they spread rapidly via offsets, and several species are valued in cultivation as groundcover for dry, sunny spots.^[2]

My Wild Garden | Panorama View With Localisation Of The Flowers

Gust MEES — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:27:22 +0000

Click the above image where YOU will get direct to “ThingLink“. YOU will see an interactive image, move YOUR mouse pointer over the image and YOU will see some spots. These spots are showing which flowers are on what place and by clicking on those spots YOU can access more info about the flowers.

Gardening: The Wild-Garden | Names Of The Flowers | Aster

Gust MEES — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:29:54 +0000

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Related links:

Asters des Alpes bleus (en français)
Fall Aster (in English)
Aster (genus) Wikipedia (in English)
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Gardening: The Wild-Garden | Names Of The Flowers | Rudbeckia hirta | Black-eyed Susan

Gust MEES — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:40:58 +0000

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Text from Wikipedia: Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Eastern and Central United States. It is one of a number of plants with the common name black-eyed Susan. Other common names for this plant include: brown-eyed Susan, brown Betty, gloriosa daisy, golden Jerusalem,^[1]^[2] Poorland daisy, yellow daisy, and yellow ox-eye daisy.
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Related links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudbeckia_hirta (in English)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudbeckia_hirta (en français)
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/119575/ (in English)
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Gardening: The Wild-Garden | Names Of The Flowers | Lunaria annua

Gust MEES — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:56:00 +0000

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Text from Wikipedia: Lunaria annua, called honesty or annual honesty in English, is a species of flowering plant native to the Balkans and south west Asia, and naturalized throughout the temperate world.

It is an annual or biennial growing to 90 cm (35 in) tall by 30 cm (12 in) broad, with large, coarse, pointed oval leaves with marked serrations. In spring and summer it bears terminal racemes of white or violet flowers, followed by showy, light brown, translucent, disc-shaped seedpods (silicles) the skin of which falls off to release the seeds, revealing a central membrane which is white with a silvery sheen, 3–8 cm (1–3 in) in diameter; they persist on the plant through winter.^[1] These pods are much used in floral arrangements.

Well, Wikipedia says ===> 90 cm <===! In my Wild-Garden I got one that on 15.07.2014 is already about 1.32 m high!!!