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michellephilippe

🎙Voice actor - writer - performer
veggie & chicken pics 🥦🥑🐓🍅
Blogging on urban dirt & lifestyle at www.yourgardenvariety.com

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Fresh basil pesto is the bomb. Made a couple batches from the morning harvest. This one was all purple basil. Only looks a little purple-y smothering bucatini. Extra yummy with @castorocellars Barbera.

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Pesto-to-be. A final basil harvest. The beds will be tilled tonight. 🚜

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Look what mischievous creature showed up in my witchy wreath! Ain’t she a doll 🎃👻😈 #HappyHalloween

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Oven dried tomatoes. It took a little thyme.

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Is it Friday yet?

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Summer Savory, one of my favorite seasonal herbs, ready to be dried for year-round use. How to : (1) Arrange clean herbs on a parchment covered cookie sheet. (2) Preheat oven to its lowest temperature. Turn it off before sliding in the sheet. (3) Place a post-it note on the oven instrument face to remind you that herbs are in the oven!!!!!

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Time to get sauced. 🍅❤️

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#gazpacho before pic. Before the giant peeling-and-seeding-tomato mess. 🍅❤️

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We’re saturated with tomato goodness over here at the #microfarm. Mmm 🍝

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Breakfast. ❤️🍅☀️

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Happy first day of summer ☀️

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People, it’s started. Now, I can’t shut up about tomatoes. Look at this beauty plucked from the #microfarm kitchen garden. I made a special trip to @milkfarmla for fresh burrata. Perfect with a pretty pink French rosé. #nomnom

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Look what happened this morning. So exciting! Someone is getting ripe 🍅

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Good morning, ladybug! Thank you for protecting my Secret Sauce tomato. Please make your rounds.

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☀️#microfarm freshly harvested herbs tossed with a little romaine 🥬 for brunch alfresco. French sorrel adds a nice lemony-ness. With Thyme, Italian parsley, green and purple basil, & chives. Mmm! Gardening always gets the chicken’ attention. ☀️

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At the #microfarm factory (an occasional pop-up) we’re working on our own version of an avocado ripening accessory to fit our extra large Holiday Avocados; a custom, woolly pouch to swaddle the avocado in warmth ‘til edible. I 💙 backyard produce! And these are extra delicious.
#HolidayAvocado #farmtotable #garden #avocadoripening #avocados #SoCalLiving

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We have a visitor. They saw our front-of-garage poppy patch from space and dropped in for a photo shoot. Witness the bad behavior they have learned from our species, laying in the poppies. AND they parked in our driveway! Stupid spaceship. Set a better example, people.

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Riding on the Metro. Nobody walks in LA.

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Making a little game day snack food. Princess Lime Tree has produced beautiful, juicy limes - and she’s got lots of blooms for more! Ceviche with fresh Icelandic cod is on the menu. Time to marinate!

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On a little midweek getaway. I’m not much of an outdoor type, but I do enjoy it when my primary exposure to the elements is visual.