What are you eating from your garden today?

I had sausage marinated overnight in Jim Beam. I sauteed the sausage with bell peppers and onions from my garden, finished off with a sauce I made with the Jim Beam. Tasty goodness. Sorry I didn't take a picture of this one!

Tonight's dinner will include steamed green/purple beans, tomatoes, and salad (beet greens, chard, kale, watercress, and summer lettuce).



Last night, I had steamed corn-on-the-cob. There were three small ears, but still the largest I've grown! Three cheers for Mel's Mix!

Had beans and HPV (hot pepper vinegar). I have more chilies than I know what to do with. Just picked 151 datils off one plant and put them in the freezer until I have time to make chilie sauce. Hot peppers make me feel alive.

This is actually what I harvested on Friday, but I had such a crazy weekend that I didn't have time to post! Anyway, everything that I've eaten so far has been very good! I made a potato, onion and zucchini gratin last night... mmm!

We just had carrots and broadbeans for lunch yesterday we had carrots, potatoes and broccoli!

If my husband says one more time "Are these from the garden?" in an amazed tone, I will hit him with something!

Today's haul - the carrot is already history!

GG

we had another dinner from the garden this is what we harvested today....

red potatoes, carrots, my son's raddish he grew at school black-blue and huckle berries, crook neck sqaush, our first cucumber this year and our very first time eating yellow cucumber and the last of our sugar snap peas...

we steamed the peas....cooked the red potatoes with the carrots and put some steaks on the grill!



we ate our very first corn!....it didnt even make it inside the house it needed a tad bit more time at the end there to fill out to the tip....it was so yummy!...very sweet....the kids loved it!



we made a tomato, cucumber, chives (from the garden) olives and feta cheese salad....my dream came true tonight for dinner....i have wanted this salad since last april when i started these seeds inside the house :drunken:



hugs

rose.....who is in LaLa land

P.S my five year old son has been looking at the harvest you all have had and he thinks its awesome.....he kept saying....wow mommy look at that....look at those...look how many....look how pretty......

so, so cute!

hugs

rose

That's great, FamilyGardening, raise that child up right! He'll be another SFGardener, for sure!!!

Amazing! Absolutely amazing.......;-}

some more treats from the garden that we harvested on monday.....i blanched and froze the beans, sqaush, some peas and a head of broc that wasnt in the picture....the peas were from the last harvest and the broc was soaking....but...we froze a feezer bag full with the mixed veggies along with some onion and a banana pepper from the garden for quick stir fry....we are going to use that yellow/orange bell pepper along with more banana peppers to pickle....i now have to figure out how to make small batch's of pickles with those cucumbers....



hugs

rose

First ever Corn!! - Variety is called 'Peaches and Cream" Thank you Mel! Thank you everyone else for this forum. It was grown in a 4x4 box as an experiment.

I am so happy. Started with 64 stalks, think there are about 59 with ears, majority have 2 ears per stalk. Three wind storms blew them to a 45 degree angle, took a broom handle to make them stand up again while Mel'sMix was till good and moist. Some stalks continued to grow at an angle, it didn't harm the growth of the ears. So how did it taste? Very sweet! Whoo hoo

Last night we had Royal Burgundy bush beans with sweet onions and new potatoes (yumm, my DH wanted to lick the pan) and yellow squash with sweet onions.

These very dark purple bush beans turn green when you cook them. It was really funny when I sauted them. First the ones on the bottom of the pan started turning green and the ones on top were still that deep, deep purple. He was very excited watching the color turn. I don't think a kid would have been any more impressed than he was.

[quote="llama momma"]First ever Corn!! - Variety is called 'Peaches and Cream" Thank you Mel! Thank you everyone else for this forum. It was grown in a 4x4 box as an experiment.

I am so happy. Started with 64 stalks, think there are about 59 with ears, majority have 2 ears per stalk. Three wind storms blew them to a 45 degree angle, took a broom handle to make them stand up again while Mel'sMix was till good and moist. Some stalks continued to grow at an angle, it didn't harm the growth of the ears. So how did it taste? Very sweet! Whoo hoo



ME TOO! First ever corn harvested & ate tonight. It was very good. Mine is Ambrosia Hybrid. Grown in my 4x8 SFG bed. I only planted about 6 squares after I pulled my onions on june 11th. There are only about 16-20 stalks but most appear to have 2 or 3 ears.



The goats devoured a stalk I cut and the husks. Cobs will go to the goats or the compost bin. Mine was also an experiment and I am very happy.

Congratulations Lindacol, your ears are beautiful!

llama momma wrote:Congratulations Lindacol, your ears are beautiful!

Thanks, they look just like yours:) Goat poo (in my case) and llama poo (in yours) make for great corn.



I thought it interesting that by dinner time about an hour after I took the picture the corn looked much more of a uniform yellow color than the beautiful bi-color in the picture.

FamilyGardening wrote:some more treats from the garden that we harvested on monday.....i blanched and froze the beans, sqaush, some peas and a head of broc that wasnt in the picture....the peas were from the last harvest and the broc was soaking....but...we froze a feezer bag full with the mixed veggies along with some onion and a banana pepper from the garden for quick stir fry....we are going to use that yellow/orange bell pepper along with more banana peppers to pickle....i now have to figure out how to make small batch's of pickles with those cucumbers.... .

Rose, I know I've not been reading this much. Good looking veggies! I use mrs Wages pickle mix, which is fresh pack. If you don't have enough cucumbers but have pickle sauce left over, you can put the sauce in the frig. and use next time. The jars that you've already filled must be processed and not saved.

Jo

Lindacol -

My bi-colored raw corn pictured above also seemed to darken a little. After it was boiled for about 3 minutes. Ahh you have great success with goat poo! My 4x4 box of corn was loaded with llama poo, as you said. It was the only poo in there, the rest was composted stuff from the yard and kitchen waste. Just incredible to me the whole process that such humble things like poo and garden waste can make beautiful food for us! Just love it. My problem with the corn is waiting for it to fully mature. : ) Anyway, this is so rewarding.

Furbalsmom wrote:Last night we had Royal Burgundy bush beans with sweet onions and new potatoes (yumm, my DH wanted to lick the pan) and yellow squash with sweet onions.

These very dark purple bush beans turn green when you cook them. It was really funny when I sauted them. First the ones on the bottom of the pan started turning green and the ones on top were still that deep, deep purple. He was very excited watching the color turn. I don't think a kid would have been any more impressed than he was.

oh it sounds very yummy furb!....its so sweet when our loved ones really enjoy the food we are growing and cooking....my heart melted when i read that your hubby wanted to lick the pan our kids are asking more questions out in the garden now that they have watched our purple beans turn green....we cant wait to cook up our rattle snake beans... ....i still have to find out if i can just cook them the same way i do green beans.....LOL....not sure if they are a *dry* bean or not....

hugs

rose

Gosh you guys got me drooling over the corn!!! Looks very yummy.

As for me it was squash as a side dish tonight, getting lots of squash.

Ooooh, April. Your squash looks sooo good.



I made eggplant parmesan tonight with my homegrown eggplants. Course, only myself and my twin sons like it. My hubby and my older son won't touch eggplant. They just don't realize what they're missing!

April, I don't even like summer squash, but that looks DELISH!!

Rose - my eyes just popped looking at your home grown blueberries! I want my own too but need to read up on it. Do you have any quick hints? They need an acid mix to grow in, right? And April your yellow squash with toms look heavenly. Oooohhhh, I could make an entire meal of it. But somehow I didn't make room for them this year. Must grow them next year. Thank you Rose and April for great pictures!

llamamomma......this is our first year of blueberries....they are planted in large containers.....we plan on moving them into the ground either this fall or next spring....they do like acidic soil and our natrual soil here in the PNW area is acidic so we mixed half our our natrual soil in with peat moss....i dont remember if we used any MM....i will have to go and poke in there and see we might have because we were putting them in containers.....we also put some wood chips on top....we added some Acid mix from Down to earth which is an all natrual fertilizer.....we fertilized again with the Acid mix when it started to bloom and produce fruit....

April.....your dinner looks so yummy!

hugs

rose