Deliciously irresistible garden food (pictures) & meal ideas

With the garden lettuce & cherry tomatoes, I made a simple salad with poppy seed dressing 

Sweaty, muddy, well fed 

I'm going to make salsa with the tomatoes and peppers 

Gourds to decorate with for fall 

Huge cushaw 

Hibiscus flowers in my garden 

Cosmos and strawberry field flowers I sowed in pots 

With green peppers & potatoes from the garden, I made a hash brown this morning 

I even made soup with radishes and potatoes 

I fried beans with potatoes for dinner 

With carrots, I fry them with potatoes and make a fantastic soup 

Garden pizza & beaitiful garden harvests

I have been continually harvesting tomatoes, beans, and peppers. So I'm incorporating veggies in different ways. I have hot peppers in ramen, burritos, salsa, and even in spicy fried beans. Tomatoes are versatile because I eat them raw sliced as a side dish, in a sandwich, make salsa and spaghetti sauce as you have seen in past posts.

Braised tofu & fried garden beans with soy sauce, gochujang,
sugar & garden jalapenos & sliced garden tomatoes

Homemade pizza dough & garden pizza sauce with
vegan mozarella & garden peppets/tomatoes on top

Canning yummy garden food & pictures of beautiful harvests

To all my garden lovers, I haven't been on in weeks because I've been busy doing work with my advocacy group, I went to a weekend worshop on advocacy through anti oppression framework; I got a job at a domestic violence center; and I've been taking care of my granny who is in the hospital for cellulitis. 

But anyway, I have many pictures of my garden harvests and I've been eating well thanks to the bounty of garden food.

Figs growing steadily

Hot pepper jelly with jalapenos, cayenne, and some hot yellow pepper (cubanelle or hungarian)

Scrumptious garden food into salsa & spaghetti sauce

I have been quite busy outside of the garden work. But in my down time, I'm watering the garden, hoeing, weeding, harvesting and canning.

Lately I have been picking and stringing beans from the garden. My family has been gracious enough to help, and even grandma is canning beans for me. In exchange, she gets all the beans she wants.

Patty pan squash, beans & potatoes for canning 

Beans canned 

Beans & potatoes canned, spaghetti sauce & pickled cucumbers/peppers 

Of course the tomatoes, peppers, and herbs from the garden are going to making salsa, spaghetti sauce or salads.

I turned these into salsa minus the cucumbers 

Here is the salsa, more tomatoes & carrots 

I turned these herbs, tomatoes & peppers into spaghetti sauce 

Here's the spaghetti sauce & pickled cucumbers/peppers 

Luscious Garden food & flower gardens

I've been working a lot doing patch work around the house, cutting out moldy walls and putting pieces of drywall in, mudding, painting, and grouting tile in the bathroom too. Our AC leaks water and it comes into the living room, so I titled it more to prevent it from gettjng in anymore, which is why I had to replace the drywall, mud and repaint. My living room and bathroo  are pink now, haha.

I've been casually enjoying every meal of garden food. I've been picking beans, stringing them and breaking them to be canned, thanks to my grandma and siblings help. 

I've hurt my arm so I'm having slight issues doing a lot of physical work. I endured the pain of digging a hole today to transplant my grandma's new butterfly bush, and then clipped back the dead one.

I'm  even having trouble driving and holding my protest signs at rallies for my sore arm. It has to do with all the atrain I've put on the arm doing a bunch more physical labor than I'm used to. I digress...here are photos of the harvests from my garden...

I always admire my grandma's flower garden

Garden art sun around my grapes