I'm getting a lot of food from the garden now, so there aren't any trips to the grocery store for produce. Yesterday's harvest provided much of the food for last nights dinner, with plenty to spare. There were Yugoslavian Red and Buttercrunch lettuces, Golden Acre cabbage, Calabrese and De Cicco broccili, Sugar Lace snap peas, Walla Walla sweet onions with one red onion that was going to seed, Little Marvel peas, new Kennebec potatoes, Chantenay carrots and Canby raspberries. Not shown were about a half cup of strawberries.
All of the produce is cleaned and trimmed before weighing, then stored in the refrigerator in recycled Ziploc bags or plastic shoe boxes. I always wash and reuse my Ziploc bags if they were only used for storing fruit, vegetables or breads.
Our "garden dinner" consisted of fried chicken breasts, Austrailian Red butterhead lettuce with cranberries, walnuts and oil/vinegar/honey dressing, creamed new potatoes with baby peas, and glazed carrots. Dessert was fresh raspberries. Too bad my parsley failed to germinate early this spring, so I had to buy fresh seed and start over. The plate looks so bare without it!
I'm getting a lot of food from the garden now, so there aren't any trips to the grocery store for produce. Yesterday's harvest provided much of the food for last nights dinner, with plenty to spare. There were Yugoslavian Red and Buttercrunch lettuces, Golden Acre cabbage, Calabrese and De Cicco broccili, Sugar Lace snap peas, Walla Walla sweet onions with one red onion that was going to seed, Little Marvel peas, new Kennebec potatoes, Chantenay carrots and Canby raspberries. Not shown were about a half cup of strawberries.
All of the produce is cleaned and trimmed before weighing, then stored in the refrigerator in recycled Ziploc bags or plastic shoe boxes. I always wash and reuse my Ziploc bags if they were only used for storing fruit, vegetables or breads.
Our "garden dinner" consisted of fried chicken breasts, Austrailian Red butterhead lettuce with cranberries, walnuts and oil/vinegar/honey dressing, creamed new potatoes with baby peas, and glazed carrots. Dessert was fresh raspberries. Too bad my parsley failed to germinate early this spring, so I had to buy fresh seed and start over. The plate looks so bare without it! 
Just look at all that harvest. It's no fair, I tell ya! You'll get no sympathy from me on your current cool temps...
ReplyDeleteOh yeah....I really enjoyed the "poem" in the side bar that ribbit apparently wrote while intoxicated. It's definitely weird.
mmmm...yummy! Things are slowing down here because of the heat. Hopefully we'll pick up soon.
ReplyDeleteRibbit and EG, the temperatures are supposed to be up in the high 80s to mid 90s this week, so the tomatoes and peppers might have a chance yet. And I see a girl zucchini blossom!
ReplyDeleteYa, EG, I'm sure she was drunker'n a skunk when she wrote those. You should see what she wrote that I put on a sign in my garden ;-)
You harvest looks delicious!! And everything looks so nice waiting to be stored in the fridge!
ReplyDeleteI so enjoy reading your blog!!
Geez........Louise...Granny!! That's one beautiful table of veggies!! Do you know how long it will be until my onions get that big???......long long long time!
ReplyDeleteThose carrots look good. I've never planted that type. How's the flavor?
wow, ribbits quite the haiku-ist!
ReplyDeletegranny, i dream of having a garden as productive as yours! since i don't buy meat or dairy, i'd hardly ever have to go the store!
I'll be over at 6pm tomorrow evening. Yum.
ReplyDeleteDebbiclegg, thank you! What a nice thing to say.
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Robin, they're really good. Of the three varieties I planted, I think they are the sweetest. They don't get long and pretty, but short and stubby.
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Kelly, just think of all the money you'd save!
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I'll be waiting for you, Daphne ;-)
For someone who has had such cool seasonal temperatures, you sure are having a good harvest!
ReplyDeleteGrannie - you have magic fingers!!! That's a wicked cool spread!!!
ReplyDeleteAll you who live south of us here in the Prairies of Canada are so blessed to be able to harvest earlier and later, it makes me jealous! Oh, well our time will come if we don't get rained out again. I love your silverwear, would you mind telling me what the pattern and maker are?
ReplyDeleteShawn Ann, yes, the early spring crops have been wonderful. However, lat year at this time, I was picking green beans daily. I got my first small handful of those today.
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Kiwi Gomez, that's funny...Granny with the magic fingers :-D
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Jean, it's probably 25-30 years old. My mother-in-law gave each of my daughters a set. She saved Betty Crocker coupons, and ordered them a setting at a time. Before she had finished this set (it doesn't have the pie server or gravy spoon, probably a few other non-essential pieces) the pattern was discontinued, so she gave it to me and started another set for my youngest daughter. I've used it every day for all these years! It's stamped Oneida Community Stainless. A Google search shows the pattern is Chandelier
http://tinyurl.com/2d6serq
LOL! I didn't know I had $500 worth of "everyday" stainless in my kitchen drawer.
Wow! You have quite the harvest already! The only thing we are getting is lettuce. When do you start your seedlings?
ReplyDeletemeemsnyc, I don't get home from AZ until the first week of March, so most things are started between March 15 and March 30. Peppers and brassicas are the first in line, followed by tomatoes. Lettuce was started mid-April.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you treat yourself well, Granny! Great garden dinner.
ReplyDeleteYou're just showing off now, Granny!
ReplyDeleteLast night I had a neighbour round. She left with a carrier bag of Tokyo Bekana and a basket of rocket, two types of lettuce, cress, red giant mustard, red frills mustard, radishes and mizuna.
Mrs IG said after she went, "I bet she'll bring the basket back tomorrow at dinner time!"
Lovely menu AG! I am Jonesing for potatoes something fierce. It is getting close to the time when I can start grubbing out some stolen new potatoes and I can hardly wait for that.
ReplyDeleteTIG, I grow ten times the food we need for our personal use, just because I love providing my children, grandchildren and neighbor with fresh organic produce. For the two of us, one 4'x8' plot would probably suffice!
ReplyDeleteKitsap, I'm thinking my Norlands aren't going to be very productive this year, as I'm not finding many with my potato raids. The Kennebecs have fed us a few meals though.
Angela, Mr. Granny only married me so he'd have three good meals a day ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou're such a pro veggie gardener!
ReplyDeleteDan, (blush) you say the sweetest things ;-)
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