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Originally Posted by braingonebad
The cage is outside. It's about as big as two large laundry hampers. Which is a lot smaller than they tell you, for compost. but it still works. They say you need about a 3' x 3' area or bigger - but who wants to deal with turning all that over? Too much work for me.
I don't put much fruit in mine, because that makes it smell and attracts a lot of insects - and not good ones. Grass, weeds, are most of it with bad tomatoes and cukes from the garden maybe being 5%.
Thing is, I need to cover the finished dirt with plastic and let it set in the sun a few weeks to kill off the bacteria and seeds because this small of a compost does not do as good a job at that as a larger one.
They make this stuff sound so complicated, and it's not. you throw clippings in a pile and let them rot, and that's compost. It's as complicated as you make it.
I figure this, what ever a plant takes out of the ground is what it needs to grow. You put that back in the ground, and you can grow that plant really well. Saves a ton of fertilizing.
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I think I'll just keep doing my sprouts. I have no backyard. I live in an apartment. I'm doing JUST FINE doing my sprouts, and today I found another way to make sprout patties.
AND BOY WERE THEY GOOD.
Because I'm diabetic I rarely eat any carbs and I NEVER EAT ANY REFINED CARBS.
But I was using bread crumbs as a binder to make my veggie patties, sprout patties, various sorts of patties. I would throw in egg whites, chopped onions and any mashed up veggies that I had and I would then throw some sprouts in, mash it all up, make a patty, spary some PAM and add a bit of vegetable oil, make the pan hot, and add the patties, turning until browned and cooked.
And then adding a dollop of my yogurt dill dressing. Absolutely delicious but then again, THERE WERE THOSE CARBS FROM THE BREAD CRUMBS.
Wel!!! today I said "I'm just going to make sprout patties, with no bread crumbs.
So I took my sprouts (BROCCOLI, FENUGREEK AND RADISH SPROUTS). Just imagine all these green leaves peaking at the tops of the white sprouts (absolutely beautiful to look at). I put them in a bowl, add some chopped onion, added an egg (you can use substitute or egg whites). Then I took a fork, mixed it all up, did the PAM bit in the frying pan, and put in some oil Not a lot of oil, but just to cover the bottom a bit. Then I got it hot, took some of the mixture in my hand, and while it doesn't form a pattie, I didn't care, because when it hits the hot oil, it makes a birds nest kind of thing (if you can understand what I mean.
When you turn it over and it's done, it's all crispy.I drained them completely, and there is no saturated fat at all.
So when they were all ready, I added the yogurt and my husband said "oh my god, these are better than the others, they are so crisp".
So I now have NEW PATTIES, NO CARBS, No sturated fat, crisp and delicous, and you can top with yogurt, applesauce, anything you want.
These are absolutely to die for.
I'm going to post this on the recipe forum (Do we have one of those? lol)
Melody