{"id":582,"date":"2011-12-06T20:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T03:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2011-12-31T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T20:24:17","slug":"heart-the-jicama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post582","title":{"rendered":"Heart the Jicama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, weather in Texas has taken a fairly drastic turn recently. The days of 100+ weather is long gone. And FINALLY, my little garden was producing.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight, we could get down to 26 degrees. Even though I am sicker than a dog, I know that there&#8217;s no chance what little has made it this far would make it past tonight. So what do I do? I go outside and start salvaging what&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n<p>One of my more adventurous attempts this year was planting jicama. It&#8217;s a root vegetable, but has a sweetness to it. One of our friends used to use it in his Indian potlucks- he would make a fabulous salad with a peanut sauce- and it was fabulous. So when I saw it at Home Depot as a starter plant, I figured, &#8220;What the heck?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note: I planted it back in April. Jicama doesn&#8217;t usually get harvested until December. That&#8217;s a huge chunk of time before harvesting, so that made me pretty worried. After such a crazy summer, what could I expect when it was all said and done?<\/p>\n<p>After digging it out of the earth and washing the dirt off, this is what I saw:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/2011-12-06-21.06.50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-583\" title=\"2011-12-06 21.06.50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/44d5786ac1d7899bbb58e92e8e4d42e3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" imagescaler=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/44d5786ac1d7899bbb58e92e8e4d42e3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to interpret as you will, but I&#8217;m interpreting this as a happy sign from the cosmos. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, weather in Texas has taken a fairly drastic turn recently. The days of 100+ weather is long gone. And FINALLY, my little garden was producing. But tonight, we could get down to 26 degrees. Even though I am sicker than a dog, I know that there&#8217;s no chance what little has made it this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}