Baked sweet potatoes with maple syrup and chocolate sea salt may well be my favorite new side dish.
Category: Vegetables
Garlic Bread Crostini with Plum Tomatoes & Roasted Veggies
Crispy, crunchy, creamy, savory and loaded with veggies? Yes please! These yummy crostini’s are a simple, quick appetizer that will delude others into thinking you’ve spent all day making fancy pants appetizers.
Maple Harissa Vegetable Kabobs
It’s been in the 90s every single day for weeks now, which has made me feel tragically unmotivated to use the oven. Luckily it’s grilling season so I’ve been spending some time playing around with creating homemade marinades…this is one of my favorites. It’s got the whole savory and sweet thing going on and has a little kick without actually being spicy.
Herb and Veggie Garden – Early July
Somehow it’s already July.
My summer veggie garden is in full swing, loaded to the brim with entirely too many plants…mostly tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. Oh, and heirloom Italian striped zucchini. And bush cucumbers. Tom Thumb peas. I’m even trying tomatillos this year, and wow are the upside down, star shaped flowers groovy looking! Unfortunately the okra, epazote and shiso that I planted were destroyed during a random, totally unexpected hail storm last month. Look how pretty the okra plant was. Sniff!
But on the plus side, all of my herb plants are growing like crazy, especially the genovese basil and chives. There’s also rosemary, sage, Thai basil, Vietnamese corriander, thyme, oregano and chocolate mint.
The stick like rasperry and blueberry plants I bought last year at a big box store each produced a single berry. Which is still one more berry than I had last year. Maybe next summer I’ll get a handful? The sky’s the limit! LOL
Before it got too hot I was able to grow a myriad of radishes…French breakfast, cherry belle and some really good, spicy sweet radishes from India.
And these delicious Chinese red meat radishes, that when sliced, look weirdly like eyeballs or nipples, depending on who you ask.
Then there were the carrots, tatsoi and baby kale.
And some lovely flamingo swiss chard.
Lots of assorted herbs and greens. The arugula and canary yellow baby chard were particularly fetching.
Next on the agenda…tomatoes and tomatillos! Check back soon for my next gardening update.