Made tomato sauce

That was what I was getting at. In the Navy in Sasebo Japan, at worst of summer, the base hits 'feels like' 116F. Try that with the blazing sun hitting a big chunk of metal with the AC shut down, as we were getting upgrades or repairs so engineering is shut down.

You learn fast to keep hydrated and not just water.

Pocari sweat was the best! Electrolite replacement drink of Japan. Expensive here to get. Just adding tablesalt won't work.

Thanks! It it specific to cider vinegar? I have brown sugar cane vinegar. I'd like to try mixing a batch here for Don and me. Ginger is very easy to grow!

Hey, suits me!

Basil and oregano are common as is minced dry garlic. I don't grow garlic but I do have a patch of garlic chives and will snip some tops for a garlicy/onion taste.

If it's a vinegar you'd throw directly on food / use as a salad dressing, I bet it'd be fine. Worst case, you wasted a quarter cup of it and a token amount of ginger and honey.

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doing fine as is thanks! :)

i can tell when i need more salts and sugars because my appetite will go way up even if i've eaten recently. we always have snacks around (Mom bakes quite a bit) and i have no problem finding them.

as for thirst quenching, water has always worked the best for me. we have a good well even if the water does have a bit of calcium and rust in it. i'm used to it so there's no hesitation for me getting a drink but i do like it cold so i run the faucet until the water from the pipes is fresh again. we don't usually have enough room in the fridge for me to keep a pitcher in there but some year perhaps i'll be able to find some glass bottles and fill those once a day and then i won't have to run the water as much. i eventually will get rid of the cans of coke (we aren't drinking it as much any longer and i'm quite fine with that too).

songbird

cshenk wrote: ...back issues...

some years ago i was seriously contemplating surgery for the nth time but a friend recommended a chiropractor and he was able to get things moving and since then i've not needed much in the way of medications or even going back to get adjusted much. the massage therapist is doing her magic once a month and regular gardening exercise is doing what it needs to do... can't complain. i never expected to live this long so every day is a bonus to me. for some reason as a kid i never thought i'd live past 30 it seemed so long in the future... now i'm over twice that and still kicking. i am pretty sure gardening is a big reason why. i'd go rather stir-crazy if i didn't have some form of meaningful exercise.

i think they are very sweet to me. i like all winter squashes but more along the lines of the Kobacha and Buttercups. i can tolerate the Acorns but only if grown and allowed to actually ripen before picking. too often these days the Acorns from the stores are not really done enough and they have little flavor. a step up from them is the Hubbard, but those can take over too easily - i've had vines of those run 30+ feet.

this year i'm not growing any squash at all or melons for that matter... :(

songbird

I'll try it. Yes, cane vineger is based on sugar canes. It's brown but adds a very nice kind of sweetness and makes a better dressing than apple vinegar. Datu puti is the brand I find here, product of the Phillippenes (sp?). Pretty pricy on Amazon but inexpensive in any Asian ethnic grocery. They also make the best soy sauce, better than kikkoman.

Typo correction. I'm 64 not 54,

Glad it's working! I do what I can in the garden too. I'm resting up after the grocery trip this morning, and helping get it all put away.

Humm! I don't find delicata sweet. I roast them with red bell peppers then make a creamy bisque base and add most of them in and blend it then garnish with the rest and some some made crutons. Lovely dish.

The punch recipe there isn't so much about getting salt and sugar, but rather the mixture helps to avoid the "water is a brick in my stomach" feeling that can happen when you're hot and working hard.

Sounds like it'd be a good choice then. I made some the other day with maple syrup, after a night in the fridge it tasted nearly exactly like ginger ale. Honey may well have lost its top spot :)

I bet you go to the Asian grocery store on Great Neck Road at the intersection with Va. Beach Blvd. ;)

I get several items there when I can make the trip down for other stockups and errands. I was going to try for a trip next week, but the heat wave predicted will postpone that trip until we get some relief from the high temperatures.

Meanwhile, back at the pot farm, I'll be harvesting some of the last of the sugar snap peas (Patio Pride from Scheeper's who no longer carry the variety. I'll be letting some pods ripen and dry to save seeds for fall and next year). Those will go into a lunchtime stir fry.

Yesterday I re-seeded three pots that had either lettuce or shallots with White Spanish Sweet onions, Adalaide carrots, and Zebune Shallots. It will be a challenge to keep the new seeds moist with the heat wave expected over the next week, but I'll manage.

I've got six tomato plants going (five different varieties: Little Bing, SuperSweet 100s, Red Jelly Bean, Better Boy, and San Marzano) with little tomatoes on two plants and blossoms on all but the San Marzano. I got a late start this year, but it's going well now.

The heat wave is upon us, and I did the yard work earlier this week so I wouldn't have to worry about it during the triple-digits that are coming over the next week. With no rain so far this week, the Evil Grass shouldn't need cutting until the worst of the heat is over with... until the next heat wave.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Nyssa, who also made a grocery run yesterday morning to stock up on some comfort food (ice cream!) and extra water for the miserable weekend ahead

I'll try it! I have a huge jug of the real stuff we got as a gift.

(trimmed a lot! Talkihg vinegars to match a drink)

Oh yes! Every 2 weeks or so.

If you warn me when, I can probably meet you! (cshenk54 at yahoo.com)

I do a lot of Stir frys here! half my garden is based on supporting it.

I gave up on carrots.

I have 6 I think and a cherry tomato one.

LOL, same here but we've had little bits of rain.

I use tap water and gaitor aid powder but you see the electrolyte repcacement water discussion. (grin). Works better for me once I try it. It's cheaper too! Fully retired now, the rising costs take a bite.

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i don't have that problem. i usually drink very cold water on hot days without stomach issues. about a cup and a half at a time.

songbird

Oh that's nothing then. I'm talking about when you're so parched that you can down a half liter or more without pause.

Awesome!