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In the Garden

The Joy of Zucchinis - Week 1

When your garden gives you zucchini in abundance ...

Bake zucchini bread,

serve them with pork chops,

make a zucchini tart,

grill them,

and put the leftovers on a white pizza with fresh tomato and basil.

I hope to find some inspiration for next week in here:

Yesterday's harvest.

Garden Pictures

Just a few shots from this morning.

Finished Things

I finally found the perfect buttons for my sofa cushion.

I knitted a few more of these (if you are friend or family you might just find one in your mailbox some day).

And today I finished the latest three afghans for Victory Junction.

From the Garden

Behold - Our first Tomato!!! (Some gardener I am. I had totally forgotten that one of the tomato plants is a Golden Jubilee and is supposed to produce yellow tomatoes. No wonder this one did not want to turn red.)

These are the pickings from the past few days. We have oodles of zucchini and cucumbers. The beans have grown into a jungle and it is fun to go bean hunting in it. ;) The peppers seem to have recovered from all the rain and are just now beginning to produce blooms and little tiny peppers.

Summer Breakfast

Saturday

Ever since reading this post on Anna's beautiful blog I have been searching for Pyrex cups and today I finally found some at the Salvation Army thrift store (the green vase just had to come along too).

We have lots of zucchini growing, some cucumbers, carrots and beans. There are also tons of tomatoes on the plants but for some reason none of them show any signs of reddening, I hope they change their mind soon, I want fresh tomatoes! This morning it looked like someone or something had stomped through the tomato plants but I think they might have just fallen over because they are getting heavy and it was windy, the sticks we use for them are obviously too weak. We plan to invest in some tomato cages next year.

I used two of my cucumbers to make bread and butter pickles using this recipe. The neighbors were probably wondering why somebody would drag a jar of pickles into the porch and then take a picture of it. ;)

For some reason a lot of my meals for next week contain zucchini, I wonder why? Right now I have a zucchini bread in the oven and it smells heavenly already. It is very hot here today and we are taking it easy for the rest of the day and probably tomorrow as well.

More of the Same

Seems like that is all I have time for these days.