2014 What did you eat from your garden today?

[JayPoc]

I turned this:



into this:



The maters, peppers, basil, and parsley came from the garden. The meat, carrots, onion, and garlic came from the store....

[applestar]

I'm having an after dinner snack of tortilla chips with fresh Pico de Gallo I made today and Roasted Salsa I finished making today. When I made it, I bought into the idea to put the tomato with skin in the blender, then adding the rest of the ingredients, but found the -not quite completely disappeared- skin irritating, so ran the whole thing in the food mill.

Trying to think what in these DIDN'T come from the garden... Sea salt... Malabar black peppers... cumin seeds... oh and apple cider and balsamic vinegar. I think that's all. I think all of the other herbs and spices (like coriander) were harvested in my garden.

I actually like the food milled texture and may keep the technique, but now, I'll have to try making it without skin and chunky too, so I can compare. I suspect the skin would add some flavor and act as thickener when blended and food milled.

DH had them as appetizer. He liked the fresh salsa which I made using Grandma Oliver's Chocolate, Jersey Devil, and Captain Lucky tomatoes, and substituting cilantro with lime basil since he doesn't like cilantro. But I did use cilantro according to recipe in the roasted salsa... And he detected it right away.

Since he doesn't like it, I think I'll can this batch of roasted salsa in small jelly jars for individual serving.

[rainbowgardener]

As a dieter living on 1000 calories a day, much of what I eat is salad. Made a beautiful salad mostly from the garden, with just a bit of store lettuce for crunch: swiss chard, lots of lemon balm, some other herbs, carrots, celery, parsley, bell pepper, tomatoes, some purslane. Ate two bowls of it (nice thing about salad, as long as you are very careful about dressing, you can eat as much as you want).

My Anaheim peppers are producing like mad. I don't put them in salad, but I do pretty much put them in everything I cook. Last night's dinner was a (vegetarian) minestrone, again mostly from the garden and including the Anaheim peppers.

[Wombat]

I dug up some sweet potatoes to have with dinner and harvested some strawberries

[applestar]

??? Can you grow sweet potatoes year-round there? Isn't it late winter/almost spring for you?

[tomc]

I should be eating pole beans, I am eating cukes.

[sunflower13]

Despite some bugs, I was able to make:
a spaghetti sauce which included tomatoes and herbs from the garden
A cucumber salad which included herbs and cucumbers
Potatoes with chives
So having a fun week with the garden

[Wombat]

??? Can you grow sweet potatoes year-round there? Isn't it late winter/almost spring for you?

I can now, mainly due to the fact we don't get our small dose of frost in July any more.......the vine was planted last year and survived the winter just fine. I left some tubers in the ground and harvested a couple of those. The vine's starting to sprout again too, the soil must be warming up. Yep it's spring next week and I'm busy prepping my beds for the coming warm weather

[valley]

Greetings Wombat, We, up here, are just on the way into fall and you see spring on the horizon. Wondering where in Oz .

Have a great day.

Richard

[Wombat]

Hey Richard
I'm in the northern part of Oz. The Tropic of Capricorn runs through my home state. I think I'm the equivalent of about zone 11 in the US.
Picking the last of my Dutch purple pod peas ( pisum sativum ) from the garden this afternoon to have with dinner.

[applestar]

I had this egg dish for lunch yesterday that I make up once in a while. I have no idea if there is a name for it.

I started with a strip of bacon cut in small bits, some safflower oil, then added veggies from the garden -- diced onions and Swiss chard stems, tomatoes, hot lemon drop pepper, chopped SC leaves, then decided it needed more liquid so added diced cucumber. Made a nest of wilted SC leaves in the middle of the veggies and dimpled it, added a bit of butter and dropped two eggs in the dimple. Covered the eggs with a slice of provolone cheese, found thin slices of leftover uncooked winter squash in the fridge at the last minute so arranged those on top of the provolone, then covered and cooked until the cheese melted.

Egg yolks were about medium -- set and not runny but not cooked through, dry/flakey.

I usually slide this on top of a couple of toast or a mound of rice, but I didn't this time. Missed having something to soak up the sauce. I normally finish plating with freshly ground black pepper but didn't thinking the hot pepper will be enough, but I kind of missed that, too.

It's basically any mixture of veggies and herbs to taste, meat is optional, and eggs poached in the cooking liquid on top with the cheese helping to hold in the heat and cook the eggs and acting as egg timer. You can omit the cheese if you want, too.

[Meme]

I have been enjoying the last of my strawberries, so tasty they were with the addition of some cream.
Then I shared out best part of all the tomatoes I grew to my neighbours, they were grateful. They said they tasted nicer than the shop bought ones. That was a pat on my back, and of course for nature too in growing them.

[Ohio Tiller]

Only thing not from the garden was the ham but it was from one of our pigs! So we raised everything in that pot.

[Lindsaylew82]

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum...!

[Meatburner]

OT, that looks awesome. What all did you put in there? Made me instantly hungry!