{Sweet Potato Spaghetti}

Once more I did use one of blogger friend Daphne's practical and delicious recipes.

On the blog, Ivy, Phyllis and Me! you find: SWEET POTATO SPAGHETTI ←click it.

Haha, I had almost eaten my salmon before I thought of making a photo...
A simple supper with cole slaw, sweet potato spaghetti and salmon.

Here husband Pieter is doing the hard work...

And yes, on Amazon I did find me the exact same Spiral Slicer that Daphne showed in her blog! LOVE it.

It is called: Paderno WorldCuisine A4982799 Tri-Blade Vegetable Spiral Slicer.

Just click the above hyperlink..

It looks really funny when you make this for the very first time!

Just drizzle with some olive oil and put it into the oven for 10 minutes on 180°C (356 °F) 
than toss a bit and put back in the oven for 5 more minutes.
I've left it in just for 15 minutes straight...

Hope you enjoyed this unusual dish and will give it a try as well!

{Toadstools Recycling Dead Trees}

If you have a huge garden like we have, than there are dead trees, fallen limbs and what not.

Mother Nature does take care of all of it by recycling those dead trees!

Yes, toadstools can break down the lignine from trees!

Walking through our wood garden, we find lots of toadstools or mushrooms.

Husband Pieter made all these photos while making such a walk.

It is quite amazing to see how the toadstools are the last in Mother Nature's cycle for doing its work. No creature can actually 'eat' trees.

Those toadstools do decompose tree trunks and you can often observe different varieties of mushroom attacking it simultaneously.

These look even beautiful!

Thanks for your visit!

Related link:
{Pleurotus Ostreatus in Wood Garden Provided Meal} | previous post by me

{Centipede Grass Sods}

In October when husband Pieter did remove the HUGE Indian Hawthorn and also got rid of all the rattlesnake weeds, he did sow a mix of grass.

From Home Depot, Pieter did haul back home several sods, on a piece of ply wood on the bike rack behind our Toyota RAV4...

Supervisor Spooky boy is watching that it is getting laid straight!

This photo is from October 31, 2015 where some of the grass seed did actually come up but it died already in the spring.

The Centipede that was supposed to be mixed in, did never come up.

This was the reason that we had to dig up all our Azaleas since it got infested by this pesky Rattlesnakeweed or Hieracium venosum L. 

Several loads and often they did run out of sods at Home Depot...

Keeping the ones that already got laid alive was also a struggle in mid June.

Sods that have been on pallets for days, seem to turn yellowish...

Light and water helps to change that quickly.

Row by row...

While we were in Florida, our cat sitter did turn on the sprinklers a lot so it is growing now and it has been mowed already.

Hoping to get this added section of lawn in good shape over time.

In the shade of our huge Magnolia tree, grass will not likely grow, so that has been left bare but grass will spread out.

Centipede is a grass variety that stands the heat and in winter it turns completely brown. That's a time that I hate.. looking so dreary!

Thanks for your visit!