It’s always uniquely satisfying to construct the majority of a meal from items you have grown yourself. This is what we did on Sunday night. I made some fresh orecchiette to pair with a sauce made primarily from eggplant. Heather suggested mixing in some hot peppers, mint (I used apple mint) and ricotta salata cheese. [...]
Filed under: cooking, dining, garden on September 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
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.
Filed under: garden on July 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: garden on July 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
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