What are You Eating from the Garden?

[SPedigrees]

It was too hot to turn the oven on today, but we managed to make a very tasty tuna pizza on the barbecue. If you like tuna I would definitely recommend giving tuna pizza a try; it is very popular in Europe, but never seems to have gotten any traction in North America for some reason.

That doesn't sound half bad. I may try that.

 

[Phaedra]

Finally, some lovely tomatoes come in.

 

[ducks4you]

tomatoes...FINALLY!!

 

[flowerbug]

tomatoes...FINALLY!!

same here, yesterday's dinner included a pile of tomatoes on the bean burrito (the yellow eye beans also were grown here). tonight we'll probably have BLTs in a bowl.

 

[digitS']

I have been thinking that melons are one food that I am happy to eat with every meal. Fortunately, there are 3 types. There isn't quite as much enthusiasm on my part when I bring out the cucumbers but I can separate them as appetizer and dessert.

The melons are winding down and it looks like we may not have them in September. Remarkable in that the usual ripening time for the crop is the last days of August.

We can try our first full size Lemon Boy of the new version, today. The plant is healthy and that was the reason to make the switch from the older variety. The one ripe Gary O Sena was an outlier. I have begun to wonder about the Porters etc. Certainly not in any rush to join the production here at home. The exception is the Jellybean plant at the end of the bed in the big garden. Covered with ripe fruit, yesterday!

 

[Phaedra]

Sparking water with blackberry syrup

Instead of taking brambles as enemy, I decided to co-exist with them. However, just need to keep the pruning on, like many other perennials.

I collected a bowl of the ripen berries and made the syrup for adding into sparking water or yogurt.

Using a sieve is necessary to remove the seeds. After the syrup cools down, I added honey and kept it in the fridge. So fresh and so good!

 

[ducks4you]

BLT's this week--FINALLY!!!!!

 

[flowerbug]

breakfast today was some dried beans that were cooked up last week to finish them off and on top of those (after warming them up) i sliced a tomato and put some ranch dressing on it all. very good basic food but i could eat it about every day.

tonight will be melon and something else, not sure yet, BLT in a bowl did not happen the other day as we got sidetracked by ice-cream and pumpkin cake...

 

[ducks4you]

More tomatoes. Haven't looked today yet.

 

[Phaedra]

Pesto made by basil and nasturtium leaves, yummy. The ingredients are simple: basil, nasturtium, olive oil, salt, and garlic.