what are you eating from your garden today 2017

[rainbowgardener]

I know we've had a what are you eating from the garden thread, but I couldn't find it, so I thought I'd start a new one for this year.

Dinner tonight was home made minestrone soup. It had swiss chard in it for the green element (you can also use spinach, kale, etc) fresh picked from the garden. It also had my herbs (basil and oregano) dried from last year's garden. AND it had green beans from last summer's garden that I froze.

I just a week or so ago used up the last of the butternut squash from last year's garden.

I don't know why it makes me so happy to be eating from my garden, but it does!!

[angiecis]

I don't have any veggies ready yet for eating from my garden but I made toast last night with a mixture of butter and fresh rosemary from my garden and it was amazing!!

[Allyn]

Today? Lettuce and peppers -- both green bell and Thai. Yesterday, I used some of my fresh parsley in a batch of tomato sauce. Tomorrow, I'm making pizza with some of the tomato sauce. I'll use more green bell peppers on the pizza and more lettuce for a side salad.

[rainbowgardener]

One thing I have in my garden right now besides chard and lettuce is parsley! Last year's parsley plants are getting huge.

So I am looking for (vegetarian) recipes that use a lot of parsley, not just a little garnish. So far I have:

tabbouleh http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tabbouleh/
parsley-mint-pistachio pesto http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/parsley ... chio-pesto
parsley ravioli in brown butter sauce: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/parsley ... tter-sauce
green goddess mac and cheese http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/gr ... nd_cheese/

I am going to start trying some of these!

[Allyn]

The Mac & Cheese looks wonderful.

There's always Parsley Potatoes. That's an old favorite.

Lemon-Parsley Green Beans: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/146100/lem ... reen-beans
Olive and Parsley Pesto: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/242128/oli ... sley-pesto

[rainbowgardener]

I did make the Green Goddess mac & cheese. It is a nice concept, but too timidly executed. If I make it again I will double the amount of greens in it. If you are going to call something Green Goddess, it seems like it ought to be ... well... green. This had more like little flecks of green in it. But the seasonings are good. I will do it again with more greens and see how it turns out.

[OliverWonderland]

Hmmp! My veggies on the garden just started, but can't wait to eat it soon.

Oliver

[applestar]

Basil, parsley and microgreens from the Winter Indoor Garden

[PaulF]

Dust...it's so dry here that when I put the tomato cages out to plan for May the wind picked up and I ate dirt for a while.

[applestar]

I made anko (sweet red bean paste) with some of last summer's adzuki beans. Then I made some tapioca to eat with the anko, and also made anko and hazelnut meal filled rolls in a muffin pan using brown-rice flour-based gluten-free flour, substituting almond-hazelnut-coconut milk kefir for the liquid. I had a small portion of the dough and larger portion of anko-hazelnut meal mixture left over, so I used a mini-muffin pan and layered the dough, anko mixture, then tapioca. Both the rolls and the layered mini-treats turned out great.

[rainbowgardener]

Still just chard, parsley, lettuce, but the spinach is almost ready to start taking a few leaves from.

And my herbs have come back to life and greened up, so I've been using thyme, oregano, tarragon, mint, and sage from my deck containers. Yay!!

Love spring salads! I've been giving our chickens handfuls of chickweed every day and they love it, so I've started putting some in our salads. Very nutritious. I've been feeding some to Penelope, the pig that lives behind our back fence, too.

(I don't know if I ever mentioned: the horse ranch behind us changed management. There's still lots of horses and dogs, but the peacocks went away. Instead there is the pig [she's an indoor pig and asks to be let out to potty, the way dogs do], four goats, and chickens. )

[applestar]

It was a miserable morning -- dark, raining, thundering.... I found a bag of fresh shelled mix of PPP, Kentucky Wonder, and Purple Hulled Pinkeye in the freezer and a hunk of Polish bacon in the meat bin, left over coleslaw, opened jar of my roasted pepper salsa.... red onions, celery, carrots, beef broth, my own garlic, oregano and coriander.... leftover brown rice... yep. Oh and peppadew and Brazilian starfish peppers from the winter indoor garden. Molasses, vanilla sugar.... oh yum.

[rainbowgardener]

For dinner last night we had curried butternut squash soup. It is the last of last year's garden squash. In fact the squash was used up awhile ago. But when I used up the last of it, I made a huge pot. Brought a whole bunch to a potluck supper and then froze the rest. So I got it out of the freezer. Now it's all gone!

[rainbowgardener]

And we recently had the last of the frozen minestrone soup made with last year's garden veggies.

Rather than just freezing peas, beans, canning tomatoes or whatever, I like to make them into recipes. When I'm cooking something with my garden veggies, I just make a double batch and freeze half. Really not much harder than just making enough for now. And then there's a nice soup or lasagna or whatever, that I just have to take out of the freezer and stick in the bottom of the frig to thaw and there's a meal! Most of last year's frozen stuff is used up now, except I still have about six bags of pesto frozen... I suppose we need to start using it up, since I now have this year's basil planted.

[pepperhead212]

Last night I made a dish to which I added 3 c of okra, frozen last season. And, as usual. garlic from last season. I have some more things that I need to use up, before this year's harvest starts!