{ Cheese ‘n Pickles }

And after a fun night wading through vague and misleading instructions, here it is:

We have a crocodile in there to defend it from the cats.

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We came back to several obscene cucumbers (3, weighing about 5 lbs.)  and other ripe veggies.  Heather will turn these into dinner.  That’s 3 cucumbers, 2 Marglobe tomatoes, 1 green sausage tomato, 3 Asian eggplants, and a Bulgarian Carrot hot pepper.

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This weekend we attended the wedding of Debbie Ebert and Kevin Bloss in Guilford, Connecticut.  Debbie is one of Heather’s friends from graduate school.  Here is Heather, the bride, and Sarah Pike.

And like any other wedding, the wine flows freely and sometimes things like this happen:

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The season’s first tomato. It was delicious.

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What do you do when your garden has a 10 ft. cucumber plant that turns out 1 lb. fruits daily?  You make pickles.

And tonight Heather made some lentil/chickpea patties served with a peanut sauce in a pita, with a cucumber and grape tomoto salad on the side.  Quite tasty.

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Mike worked really hard and long in the heat to get the first pieces of furniture we’ve bought assembled and up today.  It was boiling hot in the room, and he spent most of the day building Ikea’s finest baby selections.  Still, it looks great.  The crib will go where the blanket is when it [...]

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We had our 20 week appointment today and we learned the sex of the baby.  It’s a boy, which will be pretty obvious in the photos below.

In case there was some doubt about the sex…

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Earlier today, Mike alluded to our planned Asian vegetable feast with the produce we picked from our garden.  After we picked our largest veggie yield to date, we did in fact cook up a delicious Asian-influenced meal.  It was a shared cooking adventure – I prepared the cucumber salad (top right) and made myself a [...]

Filed under: cooking on July 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I did some work in the garden this morning, mainly to tame the growing tomato forest.  One of the biggest surprises has been the vigorous growth of a single cucumber plant (the variety is ‘Japanese Climbing’).  It is taking over the middle area of the garden.  One of the shoots it has sent off is [...]

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Here’s a shot of our herbs…

More photos after the jump…

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