Tuesday, July 20, 2010

veggie tales

Our garden is in full force and most of our meals are composed of a minimum of one garden veggie, but usually more than that.

Here is a salad made entirely of garden yummies....spinach, green onion, grape tomato, carrot, pepper, cucumber, and sugar snap peas.

This is what our fridge looks like on a typical day.

We have also had a chicken vegetable soup, vegetable lasagna, Mexican rice with added pepper and zucchini, and stuffed peppers.

We didn't plant our own corn since it doesn't do well unless you can plant a significant amount and our garden is on the small side, however, we were endowed with quite a bit last evening.  We live across from the community garden, which is done by volunteers to benefit the food pantry.  Well, they had more corn than they knew what to do with, so I gratefully took the extra off their hands!

They girls were so eager to have some, that they didn't even wait for it to be cooked...Anna ate EVERY SINGLE kernel on her cob and finished up what Maria left.  Then they ate more of it cooked for dinner.  Larry and I husked, cooked, cut and froze 36 cups worth after the girls were in bed.  We will sure enjoy it in the dead of winter when it takes like fresh corn off the cob!

1 comment:

Aunt Barbara said...

It never occurred to me to let my children eat the corn raw! I have eaten a few kernels raw when they came loose while shucking.... much prefer it cooked.....
Your salad looks YUMMY... garden veggies are a blessing.
Bean beetles have left ugly marks on our green beans, but the most recent picking shows less damage than prior ones.