High Garden Season

[susanstinson]

Counting my blessings:

• Last night, I went out to a chinese restaurant with friends for a birthday, and the celebrant, who is friends with the owner, brought along a bag of green beans from his garden and gave it to the kitchen, so we had a huge bowl of his own green beans with tofu - tender! delicious! gone fast! -- with the meal. The staff were working on preparing another heap of green beans on one of the tables in the dining room, but I hear that they do that all the time. Also, we were at a round table with one of those giant lazy susans that you could gently spin to get the dragon skin to come to you. We talked bees, donkeys, and adventurous photojournalists.



• My love brought more buckets of tomatoes. Yesterday, I made a brazilian salsa with her peppers and tomatoes, then poured it over salmon and baked it with some of her zucchini. I poured it all over some greens before I ate it. Yum!



• I made my mama's biscuits for breakfast, and had them with a kind of fritatta with eggs from my beloved's hens, onion, garlic, zucchini, tomato and monterey jack.



• I had left over biscuit dough, so I baked it in a pie pan, and think I might make a tomato pie. Also pepperonata from some of the sweet peppers. Then I'm going to make a sauce from the rest of the tomatoes, shred the zucchini, and freeze it for winter.

Comments

[library-chair.livejournal.com]

This stuff that you are posting makes me want a garden so badly. My mom always had a vegetable garden when I was growing up - now that I live in a studio apartment, there's not even room for a pot garden. All the plants I have around are the Jade Parade on my windowsill. I need to buy some land or something. It's cheap enough around here...

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

I live in an apartment, too. I have a great heirloom tomato plant on my tiny landing, but most of this abundance comes from the fact that I know and love gardeners.

Maybe there's a community garden nearby where you could get a plot? I've had friends who've done that, and they enjoyed it a lot.

I decided to make zucchini bread and muffins with all that zucchini I shredded, and it's smelling so good in the oven. I've been a cooking fool today.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

tomato pie? with mama's biscuit? dude.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it.

[serazin.livejournal.com]

I love food posts and I love this food post in particular. I made salsa from my tomatoes this weekend too. Mmm, so good, especially on my scrambled eggs this morning.

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Garden salsa for breakfast! Way to greet the morning!

[mrsnoname1999.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Susan!

You, your love, and some of those fruits-of-her-garden need to come and visit ME!

Please? ;)

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Oh, but the fruits of your local gardens are really what you need!

[lovelikeyeast.livejournal.com]

This is dreamy. I love hearing about your bounty!

[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Last night, corn and okra!