Fresh Produce

Here's the garden update for you. We love living in a home with property! We don't miss the condo living with no yard at all. I've had to let a lot of the weeding go since its hard for me to bend over for the last few months, but thankfully some things are still growing for us. Lately we've been enjoying the tomato harvest. Mmmm. I used to hate raw tomatoes--I always pulled them off of things. But sometime in my 20's I grew up and really enjoy them now. You still won't catch me eating them like an apple, but the garden tomatoes are so delicious that perhaps that is the next step. I'm not sure how we will go back to store bought tomatoes when the season is over!

Besides salads, we have been making fresh pasta and tomato soup out of them. I tell you what, it pays marrying a guy who spent a lot of his life in Italy. Such great pasta!! (Although you can't go wrong by smothering it is cheese like the picture below).

Potatoes and Carrots and Rosemary from the garden. I planted several varieties of potatoes and don't remember what went where now so its always a surprise of what type I will dig up when I go out there.

The green (and yellow and purple) beans are long done, but we really enjoyed them while they were coming.

More potatoes and rosemary--and butter (not yet from our property-haha, but maybe someday?).

The Swiss Chard was sadly neglected, and I almost thought I had left it out in the garden too long for it to taste any good, but when we finally picked it and cooked it was delicious! Cooked in lemon and butter--yummy!

And yummy blackberries. We enjoyed these through August and a little into September. They grow crazy in the Northwest and are somewhat of a nuisance when they get out of control, but the berries are so delicious!