What we ate tonight (which would include ‘Baby O’)

A salad of farro, feta, chick peas, and tomatoes & cucumbers from the garden.

Filed under: cooking, dining, garden on August 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

July 27 Harvest

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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Heather’s recent kitchen work

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.

Filed under: cooking, garden on July 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Fresh From the Garden Dinner – Mike’s Fish version

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 »

Our first significant harvest

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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