It is time for late vegetables

The advantages to do late summer vegetable are:

1) Much less bugs in late summer comparing with late spring or earlier summer.
2) The weather is not that hot/dry in late summer and fall, will need much less water.

That means the late summer vegetables are much easier to take care.

It is good time to start late summer vegetables now. You can do the following late summer vegetables:

1) Radish: you should start now
2) Baby Bao Choy: you can start seeds now, and transfer the plants in 2-3 weeks when the plants are ready.
3) Garlic: you can start in the middle or later of August.

Above are my experience, and I have been doing that for several years. By the way I live in Zone 5.

Vegetables in May's Garden - 2010 - Part One

Following vegetables are from a shared garden (with my friend)

Zucchini:









Water Spanish:



Patato:





Boiled Potato (Recipe: just with salt a little bit green onion, and supper healthy!)



Snow Pea:







Corn:

Chinese Onion Cake

Chinese Onion Cake
By May Huang



Ingredients (see picture below for main ingredients):

A: For dough:
1. 2 ½ C flour
2. 1 C water

B: For filling
3. ¾ t salt
4. ½ t black pepper
5. 1 ½ T canola oil (replaceable with other types of oil)
6. 3 T green onion, finely chopped, green part only

C: For pan fry
7. 2-3 T canola oil

Directions:

1. Mix flour and water well in a container, knead the dough to a smooth ball in the container, cover the container, and set the container aside for 1-2 hours.
2. Mix ingredients listed in B together in a small container
3. Knead the dough again on a working table, equally divide the dough to 2 -3 parts **
4. Use one part of the dough; roll out the dough to a flat sheet using rolling pin. The shape of the sheet should be square or round; and thickness of the sheet should be about ¼ inch. Take one third of the filling and equally spread it on the top of the sheet. Fold the sheet to equal three lays in one direction, and fold it three times again in another direction. The folded the dough should be square shape. Roll the folded the dough out to a flat sheet using rolling pin. See the following pictures for step-by step instruction.
5. Heat 1.5 table spoon of the oil in a flat fry pan with medium temperature. Add the dough sheet to the pan, cook for few minutes, and turn over the onion cake, and cook for another few minutes. The both side of the onion cake should be light golden brown.
6. Repeat the steps 4 & 5 to complete the remaining of the dough.

Note: ** depending on the size of pan, the dough can be divided to less or move parts.

Onion Mixture:




Step by step directions:





Notes: you can serve this Onion Cake with Chinese rice soup, corn meal soup, or broth based soup.