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Appreciation post for my tomatoes, so here’s a then and now. I love watching them grow!! Hopefully I’ll have some beautiful tomatoes soon. 🍅
First pickle of the season! Fresh cucumbers from the farmers market, and fresh dill from the garden!
I love being able to reuse perfectly fine spaghetti sauce or salsa jars from the store, so I love to save them aside for pickling and much more! In addition to some Ball jars I have sitting around too.
Tomato plant appreciation post and update.
I love going to the farm. Getting that bunch of late season peaches.
Came home after a few days away and noticed my parsley plant was basically gone. Upon further investigation, I see that these caterpillars (aka parsley worms) were feasting while I was gone. I guess they can make it up to me if they set up shop so I can watch some metamorphosis happen. Hopefully I’ll have some Eastern Black Swallowtail friends around here soon!
Using the herb garden to do some baking today. Homemade Lemon, Basil, and Rosemary cookies with a lemon and basil glaze.
Today I took on the task of creating my own recipe from scratch using the classic 3:2:1 cookie ratio. Needless to say, this was a success! I’m definitely writing this recipe down.
Went to the farm today. I’m so glad I’m coming home. Every time I go with my PaPa, he tells me stories of his summer jobs picking peaches in the summer 60+ years ago.
Last night called for comfort food. Homemade Shrimp and Grits.
Garden update! Lots of growing since my last one.
Figs have been popping up on the tree, I now have some citrus that I’ve added to the bunch. The herbs are doing well, and my leafy greens have been doing so well in the box!
Pruning the Buttercrunch today! Looks like I’m having salad for lunch. With a little spinach too.
Let’s try this again. Frog in my lettuce.
(Tumblr labeled this as mature yesterday)
Papa’s shed and a piece of his farm. He taught me everything I know about growing food.
Garden Update! My herb baskets have really grown up and are shooting up to bloom for the pollinators to come by. Same goes for my butter crunch lettuce.
I was able to successfully move 3/4 of my Brussels sprouts to individual pots to help them flourish more. And look! I have broccoli and carrots coming in!
The newest addition: squash and zucchini. I’m going to work on building a wire trellis along the fence for them to climb today so they have get big and produce lots of veggies.
An extremely proud farmer of patio carrots.
First squash of the summer! A nice summer solstice gift from the squash box.
Dinner from the garden. Tomatoes, herbs, and squash off the patio, and eggplants and zucchini from my old neighbor’s garden down the road. Mushrooms from the farmer’s stand on the island. All coming together with some pasta and Parmesan cream sauce. It was delicious. Who wants dinner?
Prepping food earlier. I’m so thankful I got a load of fresh food to prep. While hurricanes can be a mess, getting to work from home for a few days is giving me much needed time to get so many things in order. Especially meals to prep. I feel like my time has been fleeting lately and I never have time to get anything done. I just wake up, go to work, I’m so mentally spent I can’t even do anything, then I sleep and repeat. So something as simple as having some time to prepare meals for this week was a huge deal. Many of these ingredients came from either my garden or Papa’s. I do love having fresh produce in the summer!
Due to my increasing struggles with PCOS over the years. I have to really focus on a diet geared at helping with the auto immune disorder I have. Thankfully it’ll be easier since I love fresh foods and veggies so much. But having to avoid the fun stuff is definitely not going to be fun. Hopefully this will help.
One of my favorite fall recipes. Homemade butternut squash soup fresh from the farmers market. Made with sweet onions, heirloom tomatoes, fall spices, broth, and pumpkin seeds!
It’s a labor of love. I’m sore, I’m a little sunburnt, and I’m so physically tired. But I love it so much. Nothing feels like home more than going out to the marsh bays and catching shrimp with my dad. My sister and I grew up along the muddy bays learning to catch shrimp. I remember us bobbing along as young children in his small metal John Boat. We were happy that my sister felt good enough to join, we did MAKE her wear a life jacket today though. No seizing into that muggy water for her. Lol.
Shrimping for us is different from the big commercial boats you see. Our process includes 10 bamboo poles, some bait balls, a cast net, and a long day. If we’re lucky. We take home the limit: a cooler full.
No matter how exhausting of a day it is, if we get back at a decent time. I make a point to cook a meal with some of that fresh shrimp. You don’t get fresher than that. Tonight’s meal was blackened Carolina shrimp, from-scratch Alfredo sauce, and fettuccine! Y’all… I wish I could share. It was as good as it looks.
Grocery shopping is sooo annoying but when it’s all said and done the results can be satisfying. During covid I started pre-washing all my fruits + veggies before putting them away, and it’s always a beautiful thing when piled up on a towel to dry. Never fails to make me smile! 😃 My pile of laundry, on the hand…
