A garden grows

If this was colonial times this garden would not sustain us through the day must less the winter. However, that was not the point. We wanted a way for the sou chef to understand the connection between the food she eats and where it comes from. She loves cucumber and tomato salads so planting cukes and tomatoes is an obvious choice. As an added bonus we planted some basil and black eyed peas. The basil we think got eaten by one of the many bunnies and animals that run around the yard here in the 'burbs.

black eye peas - still small but growing

the only cucumber that grew

a few good looking tomatoes

About two weeks later we went out and the sou chef picked the tomatoes and cucumber. The salad was rated as 'very yummy'. Based upon the success of the garden we are gonna to expand it next year.

You don't make friends with salad

We have salads sometimes several times a week.

Big deal you say?

Very big in fact, these are not salads as a side, these are salads as the meal.

We usually go with what ever we have in the pantry and refrigerator:

-almonds
-apples
-avocado
-cheese of some sort
-oranages
-walnuts
-eggs
-chicken
etc etc - you get the idea.

This was a recent salad that had all the usual suspects in addition to a fried egg on top. I tend to like my eggs less runny so this is a shot of my salad. Lettuce, cucumbers, avocado, tomatoes, walnuts, apple, Bell and Evans Chicken Breats and of course the egg.

It was a very quick and very enjoyable dinner. Even the eggs danced

Also quick programing note. I changed my template to this new one. The old one was not doing it for me any more. Let me know your thoughts.