Ingredients: Cherry Tomatoes Feta Cheese Cucucumbers Olives Greek and Feta Dressing I don’t measure my ingredients. I just mix up all my ingredients in a soup bowl. I keep adding ingredients till full. A general idea for one person would be 1 slicer cucumber, 1 cup cherry tomatoes (at farmers’ markets they often come in…
Category: Vegetables
A to z veggies. Learn about various veggies and how to use them in various dishes.
You say toe-may-tos, I say toe-mah-toes.
I grow many different varieties of tomatoes. Romas, slicers, heirlooms, and cherries. Romas are meatier and less juicy. They are used for canning, making juice, and sauces. I grow red, pink, black/purple, yellow, orange, green, and speckled/striped. Tomatoes are one of the best veggies. There is so much you can do with them: tomato sandwiches,…
July Garden Review
In my opinion the garden is growing slow! I think paint drys faster than the veggies growing in my garden. Last year I pulled my garlic July 17, this year I’m pulling my softneck on July 29 and my hardneck Aug. 1. The first batch of corn didn’t get pollinated so it’s not edible. The…
Dilly Dips.
Dill Weed Dip 1 cup mayo, miracle whip, or plain yogurt 2 cups sour cream Shake of onion powder or dice finely a tsp of fresh onions or onions greens Shake of garlic powder or dice finely a tsp of garlic or garlic scapes. 1/2 cup dill or more to taste. Mix together ingredients, chill,…
Summer is Perfect for Soup!
What to do with all those delicious veggies? One way to use veggies is to make soup. They’re hundreds of different kinds of soup you could make. Now I don’t cook (I can, but don’t enjoy it) so my personal recipe for veggie soup might seem a little strange. I fill a pot of water…
Deep Fried Garden Vegetables
You can basically deep fry any vegetables. Put a little bit of batter on them and throw them in a fryer. Frying stuff is so much safer than in by gone years as you can get fryers that you can plug in and you don’t have to heat up oil on the stove, you still…
Zucchini and Summer Squash
Zucchini plants like to give and give and give………. Thankfully shredding zucchini is easy (if you have a machine to help you) and freezing it in bags is quite easy. In winter you can make: bread, cakes, muffins, and more with the zucchini. Another way to use up zucchini is to make zoodles. Spiralizers for…
Time for a Corny Joke
Sweet Corn and tomatoes are two of my favorite veggies. I also love Indian corn. My dad loves telling children that he hand paints each kernel. In Manitoba sweet corn is ready in August and Indian corn is ready in September. There are a few different types of corn: sweet dent flint popcorn flour pod…
Radishes and Rutabaga
I grow very few radishes and no rutabaga. The reason I grow radishes is to mark my carrot rows. Carrots grow incredibly slow and radishes grow incredibly fast so it shows me where my row is. I found radishes to be spicy, I’m not a fan of overly spicy or heat. All Recipes apparently has…
Pumpkinist Lora 