Monday, July 14, 2008

Bountiful Harvest

Squeeze and I have an old joke from years back about bountiful harvests: before kids, when we had time, we enjoyed setting up postcard-like shots of autumn scenes in our Minneapolis backyard and title them, "Bountiful Harvest". It always made us laugh (and was lovely and always made me feel very cozy).

But really, this IS a bountiful harvest! We've been eating high off the hog recently: chard egg bake [from Simply in Season], roasts accompanied by buttery beets, salads galore, turnip and beet greens in soup, spinach with butter and salt, and dynamite omelets with basil or spinach. It has been absolutely delicious.

Now, feast your eyes:

5 Color Silver-beet Chard

Chamomile

Gorgeous and delicious:
golden beets, lettuce, peas, red beets, turnips, garlic scapes

Golden beets in butter:
We've been fighting over them!!

4 comments:

Emily said...

Okay that's awesome! We are proud we have not had to buy lettuce once this summer. We've also had green beans and we'll see what else ends up surfacing. :)

Janna said...

Yum! I'm envious!

Anonymous said...

I've been craving golden beets since I saw this picture. I finally got some and roasted them yesterday. Delicious!

a. borealis said...

Aren't they fabulous?!