From the Garden with Yum

For those of you wondering, yes I did finish Harper Lee's new book; Go Set a Watchman. If you read and liked To Kill a Mockingbird (her only other book) you should read this it's just as good and powerful.

It's been hot here lately – very hot. Today it was close to 90 and the humidity was high. Mind you I don't want to be one of those people who complain when it's cold and then complains when it's hot. I'd like to think of myself as a fall person – I love the warm days and cool nights, the beautiful trees of red and gold and the smells; apple pie, hot cider, bonfires – it's wonderful.

Until that comes however, I'm happy to say that we've been eating out of the garden – a lot. The hot weather has put the grape tomato and the early girl tomato in full production and the sugar snap peas, green beans and herbs are begging to be used.

Last night was movie night – yeah! We tried to keep turning on the oven to minimum so we decided on a simple spinach, mushroom and onion frittata and a salad of green beans, sugar snap peas, snow peas and grape tomatoes with a mustard dressing. There was also cantaloupe and fresh bread with rosemary (yep from the garden) and to top it off baby smores cupcakes (which I purchased).

The recipe for the green beans is here. Since we were having eggs as the entrée I opted to not put them on the beans. I also substituted dill for the tarragon and added some grape tomatoes and then I totally forgot to put the lentils on (which I had dutifully cooked Anne Lapkin)– it turned out just find tho I liked the combination of the beans with the mustard sauce and dill and the tomatoes provided  the color. 

We also spent some time at the farmers market yesterday – it seems odd I know, especially since we have a garden full of veggies but I wanted some patty pan squash and then I found these beautiful pea shoots that I'm planning to sauté for dinner tomorrow night with a little soy sauce and some spices. Also bought some onions, and eggplant for baingan bharta – which Dan is planning to make for a potluck at work tomorrow – lucky coworkers, is all I can say.

Whether you're at home, at the lake, in the city or in the country –Enjoy!