This time of year, the garden plans my menu. Whatever is ready for harvest is generally what’s for dinner. Our freezer is full of meat from local farms, and tonight we had pork
chops with our vegetables. I brined the pork chops for a few hours in a quart of water with 1/4 c. of sea salt, drained them and patted them dry. Then Mike grilled them along with lots of veggies – green beans, broccoli, eggplant, okra and several types of peppers. He brushed the veggies with some seasoned oil as they cooked. While he was grilling, I chopped a few fresh tomatoes, a cucumber, a small onion, basil, parsley and oregano and tossed it together with mayonnaise*, salt and pepper and some garlic. Ready in 20 minutes and so delicious! What are you eating from your garden?
*It’s difficult to find a good store bought mayo. If you don’t make your own, this is one of the best I have been able to find.
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Love it!!
We grilled salmon kabobs, last night. We don’t have quite as much variety as you, but we managed to use our own fresh peppers and rosemary!
Here’s the recipe, in case you’re interested!
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2570
This weekend we’ll be using TONS of tomatoes, from Conner’s science fair project to make homemade meat sauce, plus mozzarella, basil (also home grown) & tomato pinwheels. *Thanks again!!*
Ah, Kim. I love, love, love salmon and the recipe sounds fantastic. There are so many seasons that have so much to love, but there is surely something special about harvest season! Give Conner a hug for me, if he’s not too big to accept such a thing!
I’m stopping over from Fat Tuesday. How great that your meals are from your garden! Mine right now are from my veggie and meat CSAs. : )
I recently launched a new real food blog carnival called Fill Those Jars Friday. I’d love to have you come stop by and share this on it: http://toomanyjarsinmykitchen.com/2012/08/23/fill-those-jars-friday-august-24-2012/
See you there!
Mindy
Thanks for the invite, Mindy. I’ll stop by. By the way, I love the name of your blog and can definitely relate.
I love it when everything for dinner came from our backyard! Looks yummy!
I have a long way to go before everything comes from our backyard, but I sure appreciate the things that do. Thanks for stopping by!
Yum, yum! I love meals from the garden! Found you on the Garden Party
Thanks for stopping by and for saying hello!
That all looks delicious! This past week, the main things I am picking are okra and banana peppers. We have never tried grilled okra now. Is it slimy?
Grilled okra is not at all slimy. It’s just wonderful – you have to try it!
Funny, we were eating this for dinner last night and my husband commented that it was a little slimy. lol.
look at your fantastic dinner!!! eating straight from the garden = good. no, better than good. so friggin awesome
p.s. tomorrow is the Wednesday Fresh Foods Blog Hop – I’d love it for you to stop by and link this (or any other seasonal/real food) post up
gotta spread the word, yes? xo, kristy
Thanks for the invite – I linked up! Keep up the good work.
Looks delicious! I love having garden meals – everything is so much more tasty when you’ve grown it yourself!
YUM looks so good
Small veg garden here…mostly eating tomatoes and cukes and getting corn on the cob from the store…
Ah, I love this! We too try to eat as seaonally as possible! Our garden was just tilled for our fall garden so we have nothing happening at the moment. However we just ate steamed green beans, onion and garlic with cajun seasoning and bread slices with cilantro chutney and tomato slices courtesy of our local farmers market. For dessert…it was a beautiful Sugar Baby Watermelon.
That looks delicious! I do believe we need a grill
The grilled veggies look good! We managed to grow lots of great tomatoes and bell peppers this year. Stuffed peppers…mmm!
Those grilled veggies look divine!
I love the summer, when you can eat what’s in the garden. This year I have only tomatoes, basil and other herbs. But the tomatoes are ripening fast and furious now, and we have them in salads, on sandwiches and in whatever else we feel like putting them into. They are so much better than bought. The herbs go into salads and in various cooked dishes. So nice to have it fresh.
Yael from Home Garden Diggers
I think I’ve grilled twice this summer. My bad — this looks great.
I love dinners from the garden, and your grilled meal looks so delicious! This year our garden has not been very successful due to the terrible weather conditions in the UK. The only thing that really grew properly were my summer squash, but we are enjoying those!
This is totally how i cook this time of year too…we end up with a lot of zucchini, but for the kids its fantastic bc they get to go out with me and find all the veg. Tonight I am making beer butt chicken with crispy zucchini & and a summer salad. I might also make a corn fritter or two. mmmm:)
Look so good! We are grilling zucchini, peppers, and corn from the garden. Lovely reminder to eat it while it’s fresh! Love that you are sharing!!
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