Joy of the Season

We always schedule our dentist appointments as a block in the afternoon in a nearby town mostly so we can do it in just one trip but also to eat out at some places we don't normally eat at. This particular one we have eaten at a couple times in it's old location in town but it closed down and eventually reopened outside of town and closer to an orchard where it uses the fruits to make hard cider for the restaurant. So we stopped for a meal after our dental cleanings to pack all the nooks and crannies back in with delicious food. It was a nice day so we sat outside on the patio to enjoy the scene from above.

After several weeks of dry winds, everything was getting parched so it was nice to go down to the farm garden and see the above sight. There are no functioning rain gauges there anymore but I suspect it was close to two inches. Everything should shoot right up now in the summer heat.

Above is our second garden harvest of the season. Our first consisted of some peas and a single kohlrabi. This time we harvested what remained of the peas, some more kohlrabi and dug a hill of new potatoes.

Some of the sweet peas went into a pea risotto with scallops for lunch. 



 The rest along with the kohlrabi went into a summer salad that we ate later on for supper along with some old smoked pork chops we found in the bottom of our freezer during a cleaning session. Eating fresh veggies from the garden is always one of the biggest joys of this time of year.

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  1. I like your photo of the produce. Enjoy.

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  2. Surprising that the big shiny silo was not erected vertically. They could have used a spirit level to get the assembly right.

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    1. Or I could have just straightened up my camera when I took the photo!

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  3. Now that we no longer have farmland in the Delta, I rarely get to see grain bins. I miss that! (and the fun activities that often accompanied being in that area)

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    1. Grain bins and fun activities never equated in my childhood. Seemed like they always equated to hot sweaty summer work.

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  4. Nice harvest - and you are a lucky and happy man to have a wife that cooks so well! Or, did you cook?

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    1. I do cook buy my wife if by far the better cook and both those dishes were hers.

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  5. It looks really good Ed. That said, I have never really taken to peas.

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    1. They are one of my favorite garden vegetables, right up there with sweetcorn.

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  6. Those meals look absolutely fabulous! Yummy. Fresh veggies are the best.

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  7. Wow! How fabulous to have farm fresh meals!

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  8. It is wonderful, and I'm hoping to see the day. :)

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  9. What a nice mess of veggies! I have not developed a taste for Kohlrabi but some people really like it. Oh I am jealous of the peas...fresh peas and potatoes in white sauce now that is a treat!

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