Cooking from the Garden
We got our first big bowl of food out of the garden this week! Woohoo! Since it is a lot of effort to keep up the garden, we make sure not to waste anything we grow.
We harvested several eggplant, two zucchini, one summer squash, a cucumber, purple beans and two small tomatoes (not shown).
The first meal we made was a squash, zuchinni and purple bean stir fry. We grilled the veggies. It was so good even the baby ate her food happily. The purple beans turn green when cooked. Pretty cool.
Then we had pitas with a filling of baba ganoush, cucumbers and tomatoes. Baba ganoush is like hummus, but instead of using chickpeas, you use the innards of the eggplant. We ordered two big jars of tahini to make the baba ganoush creamy. We will be eating a lot of this healthy, tasty dip this summer.
This post has been linked up to An Oregon Cottage’s Tuesday Garden Party and Sidewalk Shoes’s Garden Tuesday.
This entry was posted on Monday, July 30th, 2012 at 6:00 am and is filed under cooking, gardening, Other Blog Parties.
July 30th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Healthy and gorgeous! Of course, I’m referring to Miss Petrie, who looks great with such a healthy diet of home grown veggies. Way to go, Mrs. Petrie!
July 31st, 2012 at 9:04 am
Beautiful harvest and daughter. I can just taste the baba ganoush. Yummmm. Love it. Wishes for many more harvests to come.
Yael from Home Garden Diggers
July 31st, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Looks like a perfect harvest!!
July 31st, 2012 at 2:03 pm
There really is nothing better than dinner from the garden!
July 31st, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Looks delish! I have way too many zucchinis, so I’m going to try this.
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