Besides flowers that seem to change day by day, we are now slowly getting into summer's eating with more and more tomatoes and cucumbers.
Yesterday, we had our first "Israeli salad" so named because that's what we used to eat all the time on the kibbutz: chopped tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, parsley with salt, pepper, oil and lemon juice. The one I made yesterday was out of this world with its fresh flavor spreading through the kitchen. There is something to be said for the concept of :"From garden to plate"!
To top it, we had home-grown corn for lunch. I prefer to grow a hybrid yellow/white. Yellow for body and white for sweetness; it does not get any better!
This also means that now, the little bit of coolness we had left has disappeared and I now have to work out there in the heat. It helps me relate to the poor Mexicans picking our fruit and vegetables out there in the NC fields every day.
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| Fresh carrots in June--very nice! |
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| This may look like a miniature sunflower but it is a broken side shoot that straightened itself up and bloomed. |
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| Promises, promises!!!!! |
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| Corn of a different stripe. |
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| Nothing says summer like tomatoes and...sunflowers! |
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