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Sunday Night Dinner

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:00:58 +0000

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. It came together pretty quickly and we enjoyed it out in the yard.

After the jump, a picture of the fresh orecchiette before cooking and an anecdote about the hot pepper.

We used the first couple of ‘Lemon Drop’ hot peppers that this season has yielded. They are a very pretty yellow chili pepper from Peru. I had an impossible time starting this plant (from seed), but I just kept popping more seeds into pots. About a month and a half ago the humble little plants turned a corner and really started to grow. Now I have several dozen peppers ripening. That’s certainly more than I can handle, esp. since these are pretty damn hot. Anyone want some hot peppers?

July 27 Harvest

Mike — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:18:07 +0000

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.

Our first significant harvest

Mike — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:46:03 +0000

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 at least 9 feet long at the moment. I’m trying to send them up the clothesline ladder in the back of the plot. We’ll see how that works out and how tall they get.

That’s 2 lbs. of cucumber, 11 oz. of Asian egplant, and 4 oz. of ‘Painted Pony’ green beans. The orange pepper is a ‘Bulgarian Carrot’ hot pepper and the small purple flowers are from some Thai basil. Heather has her eye on an Asian-style meal.