Fresh Picked Dinner

The garden is yielding a larger variety of veggies these days.  In the evenings when I come home from work I spend some time perusing the garden for ripe and ready to pick vegetables.  I am trying to make a habit of making dinner with what I have on hand from the garden.  Now that the garden is coming into full production mode our dinners have been rounding out quite nicely.

 

Since the lettuce has mostly gone to seed and the new lettuce hasn't quite reached picking stage yet we have been having alot of fresh veggie salads.  They usually involve sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, peas and summer squash.  There really is nothing that you can buy from the store that tastes this good.

 

The rest of the daily harvests either make it into mixed veggie grill packets or get turned into stir fry.  What doesn't make it on the dinner plate generally gets processed and put into the dehydrator so we can use it in our winter meals.  I have found that the fresher the produce is when you start dehyrdating it the better the end product will look and taste.  This summer the dehyrator has been running almost every evening since the first harvests of peas started coming in.