susanstinson | High Garden Season

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.

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.

High Garden Season

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