now harvesting

carrots!

so I decided to make...
carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!

yum!

use-up-random-garden-veggies torte

This recipe was adapted from Smitten Kitchen and it is delicious - - plus it is a great way to use up a random veggies from the garden.

From our garden: 1 squash, 2 cloves of garlic, two carrots, two tomatoes, four kale leaves, and thyme.

Saute 1/2 onion in some butter in skillet

add four chopped kale leaves and chopped carrots

Simmer on low

Combine in a bowl:

1 c. of shredded pecorino romano

1/2 tsp of pepper

2 tsp of salt

2T of flour

1T lemon juice

2 cloves of chopped garlic

2T of freshly chopped thyme

Butter a cake pan and layer like a lasagna:

thinly sliced squash

onion/kale/carrot mixture

cheese mixture

sliced tomato

repeat until you've used all of the ingredients

Top the layers with freshly grated pecorino romano (at least 1/2 c.)

Cover with foil and bake at 375 for 30 minutes

Take off the foil and bake for another 10 minutes

Slice and enjoy!

I ate mine with a slice of French bread covered in almond butter.

now harvesting

I don't think we'll be picking 316lbs of tomatoes this year, but we are enjoying what we've got!

Recently, we've enjoyed tomato, basil and mozzarella salad.

Also, I made pasta with pesto, using our homegrown garlic and basil -- along with easy peasy alfredo sauce (thanks, Dorothy!). Right before we were about to eat, David went out and picked some tomatoes, which we sliced up to have with the pasta and the taste was heavenly!

evening

stroll by the river
and eggs benedict for dinner

tried to copy what I ate at J'eet last weekend:

hollandaise sauce (used Mark Bittman's recipe)

poached eggs

steamed baby spinach and oven dried tomatoes (from last year's harvest)

all piled on top of a toasted kaiser roll

for M and C's baby

Sugar N' Cream cotton yarn in yellow with sailboat buttons

Pattern: Baby Sandals from The Knitter's Year by Debbie Bliss

now harvesting

lettuce, garlic, peas, apricots and carrots (picked the carrots early to thin out the patch).

this and that

the zinnias are kind of showing off this year

carrots!

lily -- these blooms are huge!

lantana

echinacea gets a visit from a pollinator