I decided to make a recipe tonight, a squash recipe, and you know how a parent needs to entertain little kids while trying to make some food, so I made it fun by bringing them outside for a trip to the garden to harvest the ingredients. And, let me tell you if you haven't done this lately, it is SO fun to walk out to the grocery store in your backyard, where everything is fresh and organic, pick what you need, then walk back into the house to prepare it. My 1.5 yr old waddled over to the peas so she could pick some to snack on, and my 4 yr old collected fennel, because for some reason she just loves to eat fresh fennel, and I found the squash, onion and herbs I wanted, and marveled at all the things we could make with the ripening produce on our land.
Mike has had great success from all his hard work in his garden this year. We are now getting summer squash, the first few cherry tomatoes, onions, and it's almost time to dig up potatoes.
There was a great strawberry harvest, a nice crop of summer raspberries, and very exciting, for the first time this year, some blueberries!
So there's a little garden update. Whether you're growing your own, or going to the farmer's market or store, I hope you have fun eating up the summer's harvest!
