While our company was here last week, we had the kids help harvest the garden.
Quite a variety! There were beets, cucumbers, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, and a few onions.
Mom H. made zucchini bread, and we cooked up the beets for Sunday dinner. The rest were eaten fresh.
Beets, ready to boil and peel.
Mom H. told me you need to leave about an inch of stem on them, and the root tail while they boil, otherwise the color will all come out. Once they've boiled, you just run them under cold water and the skins come right off.
The greens you just rinse well, then steam like spinach leaves (they taste quite similar as well.)
Yesterday's Harvest
Smaller ones are cucumbers, bigger are zucchini.
I've got a recipe for zucchini pancakes that I want to try.
More cucumbers, last of the peas, some cherry tomatoes, and 3 okra!
I'll have to learn to cook okra, I guess. One friend suggested just cutting them up for soups and stews. Also, I've thought about adding them to a casserole.
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