In Season Recipes

Lovely photos. Thanks for sharing Marilyn.

My garden is going crazy, I have harvest spinach a couple of time, yellow squash, green beans and new potaotes. Had so much squash and green beans I shared with my inlaws and my mother.  I am waiting on the tomatoes seems forever for them to turn red but once they do OMG I will have more than I know what to do with.

Hello All

Marilyn your trip sounds great I am so happy you had such a great time with your family, my sons are a bit away but we do get to see each other once or twice a year!  The garden is slow but coming along, we have been enjoying frsh asparagus, lettuce, rhubarb and winter onions.  Made a big pot of my spicy baked beans and have been enjoying them.  Cellulitis infection is back so not been feeling too good, only working part time while I work thru it and reading.  Chest, and arm are very tender this time so too much movement is uncomfortable.  We are hoping to go walking int he woods this weekend to look for morel mushrooms, DH found one small one so we are hopfeful.

 Teka

I need to get back on the weight loss wagon again, not doing to well, I find when I am not feeling well I snack to feel better, it doesn't work but I do it anyway.  Oh well with the garden starting hopefully I will eat fresher.  Good to check in on everyone again!

Sherry hope you are feeling better

I am on board, let's support one another, DH and I discussing diet, we love rhubarb and especially rhubarb custard pie, we are going to make a tangy rhubarb custard, no crust will let you know how it turns out.  My biggest issue is stress eating, having to stop it, we have also been woking on trying to get more fresh fruits and veggies into our diet.

Our rhubarb custard turned out well, just use any rhubarb custard pie recipe and add one egg, chop rhubarb put into pie pan, pour custard mix over top and bake until set.  Rellay have to be good on my eating, had a car accident earlier this week, bruised form head to toe and have a badly sprained ankle, will take sevearl weeks to heal.  Nap time!

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Sherry I agree, we have been enjoying fresh asparagus, I like it with salt and pepper, maybe roasted with a bit of EVOO, lettuce is so tender, can't wait for the rest of the garden to get going.  Strawberries are beginning to bloom!

Your pictures always make my mouth water, Marilyn.  Sherry, Was it you I was discussing my worms with that one time?....they all died.  I don't know if they got cold (should not have in the basement) or some of the spray I used to get the fruit flies got to them or what, but the did not survive the winter.  I was not meant to be a worm farmer.

Yesterday I spent most of the day making sauerkraut balls for my Dad's upcoming 90th birthday party.  They can be made ahead of time and frozen and I need to have as much ready beforehand as possible.   We are doing a German party.  Sauerkraut balls, those big soft pretzels and Nuremberg (sp) brats as appetizers (they are like finger size).  Then I am doing pork tenderloin, red kraut salad, German potato salad, full size brats, kraut to put on the sandwiches if people want it,  buns, fried apples and carrot cake.   I am not making German Chocolate cake since my father hates coconut and my carrot cake recipe is really good.  Suppose Schwartzwalder cake is a possibility also, but I am running out of time to make this stuff.  I bought a lot of Riesling when I was in Williamsburg as they were having a big sale and I will also have German beer and soft drinks.   For his 80th we did a German party also and then I wore a dirndle, and I really decorated and had a program planned like This is your Life,  but I think my costume days are over and am just hoping I can pull the food off.....am finding the Adriamycin makes me tired. 

I as happy to find this thread again when I was scrolling....am still not used to and do not like the new format much.    Finished sauerkraut balls....a PIA to make, but very good. 

Marybe yes we had discussed the worms.  To bad yours did not make it.  When I was adding on to our raised garden beds and preparing the soil I found lots of worms in one of my beds so I placed them in my other beds since they will multiple.  I had to harvest all my spinach as the slugs found them and loved them so I decided to plant another bed a green beans.  As I was messing with the dirt I found lots of worms in there.  I think the worms like my soil which is a very good sign.

Hi Marilyn and welcome back home.  I love your sentence.."thats why they are called friends", made me lol

Love your garden pictures, it looks great.

Anyway, summer starts slowly up here so my veggies are still in my livingroom windows.  We actually have snow at the moment, I am a bit fed up with that.  I want sun and green grass and some heat!

Looking forward to hear more from you all, take care, Idun

Just wanted to share with you a recipie I tried yesterday eve, which I enjoyed a lot.  Good for us all who are thinking of slimming down :-)

If any of you have a recipe of delicious salad you would like to share, I would apreciate it.

Lentil bolognese:

1.   2 tblsp coconut oil

2.  1 big onion, chopped

3.  3 garlic cloves, crushed

4.   2 bay leaves

5.  2 tsp oregano

6.  2 tsp dried basilicum

7.  1 tsp sea salt

8.  1/2 tsp white pepper, grounded

9.  1 sweet potato or 3 carrots, chopped to dices

10.  100 g brown lentils

11.  1 can stewed tomatos

12.  1 can coconut milk

13.  3 tblsp tomato purre

14.  2 tsp organic vegetable stock

15.  whole grain spagetti

Ingredients 1-8 are heated in a casserol on low heat for 5-10 min.

Add ingredient 9 and brown for 1-2 min.

Add ingredients 10-14 and cook for 30 min.

Cook the spagetti while at it.

Vola!

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