What a wonderful day thus far! Playing away in the kitchen and harvesting all sorts of good things from the outdoors. Jason and I had fun counting the number of fresh green things included in our breakfast this morning.
Peppermint tea,
stinging nettle eggs with
wild onions on a
lamb's quarter amaranth roll with
parsley basil pesto spread on it. It was delicious! I felt inspired by our breakfast and since that time have made more peppermint lemon balm tea and took the dried strawberries out of the solar dryer (yum) and filled it up with peppermint to dry. I then harvested more parsley and made parsley pesto (yum) and then Alida and I harvested the garlic scapes and (are you sensing a theme?) made a large batch of garlic scape pesto. The recipe I found said that you haven't lived until you have tried the stuff. I think we have done a fair amount of living, but this just added to the richness of life! Now it is time to chop up the rest of the garlic scapes for the freezer! While taking out the compost just now, Alida and I snacked on the first snow and sugar snap peas. Despite being on our third planting of tomatoes and peppers from the two freezes we were not prepared for, it's hard to stay grouchy too long with the abundance surrounding us! And Jason's peanuts are up which makes him exceedingly happy
and they are really cute!
What a wonderful day thus far! Playing away in the kitchen and harvesting all sorts of good things from the outdoors. Jason and I had fun counting the number of fresh green things included in our breakfast this morning. Peppermint tea, stinging nettle eggs with wild onions on a lamb's quarter amaranth roll with parsley basil pesto spread on it. It was delicious! I felt inspired by our breakfast and since that time have made more peppermint lemon balm tea and took the dried strawberries out of the solar dryer (yum) and filled it up with peppermint to dry. I then harvested more parsley and made parsley pesto (yum) and then Alida and I harvested the garlic scapes and (are you sensing a theme?) made a large batch of garlic scape pesto. The recipe I found said that you haven't lived until you have tried the stuff. I think we have done a fair amount of living, but this just added to the richness of life! Now it is time to chop up the rest of the garlic scapes for the freezer! While taking out the compost just now, Alida and I snacked on the first snow and sugar snap peas. Despite being on our third planting of tomatoes and peppers from the two freezes we were not prepared for, it's hard to stay grouchy too long with the abundance surrounding us! And Jason's peanuts are up which makes him exceedingly happy and they are really cute!
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