Easy Garden and Pantry Salad

Sometimes your garden can let you down and you find that there isn't quite enough to really do anything with. Don't give up-there is a solution.

To the ingredients from the garden, I added a small can of green beans, 2 ribs of celery from the grocery store and some inexpensive Italian dressing.

This recipe is easy, inexpensive and fast. Everything I like in the kitchen and i hope you'll enjoy it too.

It made several servings and is good freshly made or left in the refrigerator to marinade.

Sunday in the City Garden

The neighborhood is quiet on the weekend as a lot of people head out of town. It's lovely to have the place more or less to myself with more bird song than traffic noises.

I grabbed my coffee and crocheting and headed out the door to enjoy the morning and beat the heat on a 90+ degree day. The morning was cool and breezy and as it began to warm up we picked lettuce, purple dragon baby carrots and and onion to make salads with for lunch. Dessert was a coffee cake made from the raspberries we picked in the back yard.

A garden gives you good food but more than that, it gives you a sense of accomplishment too.

Tomorrow I plan to get back to drawing and painting the flowers again.

In between all of that I'm also carving and sanding more Dala horses so they'll be ready to paint this winter and I won't have to have sawdust or wood chips in the house anymore.

Later in the day as I was relaxing in the house I finished crocheting that potholder and worked on a hat a bit.

There's something really satisfying about being to make and grow the things I need and takes a bit of pressure off me to sell things to get by.

A little cash would be nice but I'm content either way.

Pea Pods

We've got pea pods planted in pots and planter boxes in 4 different places around the garden and I've staggered the planting so that they won't all be ready to harvest at the same time. They all seem to be coming along well.

I like to pick the small and tender ones whenever I'm making a salad or stir fry but today i just tossed a few in some rice.

 Having grown up in the city with a front step that went right up to the sidewalk, it gives me great pleasure to have lots of lovely growing things around me. Sometimes the bird songs even begin to drown out the traffic noises here and I'm the closest to paradise that I've ever been.