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Monday Morning Photo - Wisteria Time in Andalucia

How quickly spring comes around after the short winter here in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. After lots of very much needed rain we´re back to the normal cloudless blue.  My garden is shooting incredbily with the moisture and now sunshine. And my beautiful wisteria flowers grandly albeit it short-lived. The big black carpenter bees love it. Each flowering season reminds me of the Botanical Gardens in Malaga and the ´tunnel´ of wisteria that I haven´t yet caught in bloom. April is a good time to plan to go if it´s on your list.  Here´s the botanical garden link La Concepción Botanical Gardens. And a sneaky peak at the wisteria. See the Monday Morning Photos list.
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Home Dried Tomato Success

Having also been meaning to experiment with drying something different to figs and grapes the chance came when I was given a bucket of tomatoes. As well as my own we were rather inundated.

There are only so many tomatoes one can get through in a day, especially when none of the sons eat them. So I chopped some up and popped them in the sun for three days (see figs for how) and hey presto.

They now sit in a jar of extra virgen olive oil waiting to be used, I could have put them straight into a jar on their own, but thought I´d give the oil a go. I think they´ll need using much sooner in oil though.

When I´ve put herbs in olive oil before they haven´t kept very well, going mouldy  quite quickly, so I'll use them this week, I just wanted to see how much flavour they infuse the oil with.




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