Food and Garden Update

The plants are growing like mad — every weekend there’s work to be done to catch up — harvesting, pruning, spraying, weeding, pulling up old plants. Our butternut squash is taking over the fence:

We’ve had two more great harvests since the last one:

(Chrysanthemum greens, a gift plant from Cynthia, are a tasty addition to tomato salads).

(The lame-looking cucumber is just a little dirty on a white spot — he tasted great. The troubled tiny squash, however, yeah, he went straight to the compost.)

And, from these harvests we’ve made many delicious meals — BBQ pizzas are a regular treat (no dishes!), plus tomato salads galore.

Also, C introduced us to the awesomeness that is quark by showing up with lemon quark and garlic quark.

We took the leftovers and made a delicious garlic quark squash risotto:

And here are some sliced Romano Squash to be baked with red onions on top that were marinated in olive oil and herbs:

Eventually, they were joined with baked tomatoes and a mini pizza for each of us topped with harvested goodness:

Have I mentioned how much I love the summer garden?

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