Pizza

 

I forgot to post this one of us in Hawaii eating a LOT of pizza.  So yummy.  

We grew these

 

And then I cut them up and put them in a lovely soup. Yum.

Winter garden

Look how lovely! Strong and beautiful again! Tasty, too!

Thanks, Nick, you marvelous head gardener!

Vegan sushi

We made this. See the story on our food blog.

Sugar cookies with chocolate chips

 

Tia made these... a hint of almond (from extract) made these sugar cookies awesome.  She made some with 6 chocolate chips and some plain.  Both kinds were yummy!  I love my cooking girls!

Bean dumplings

 

Kira found / made the recipe and worked on perfecting it over the long weekend.  We got them for lunch on Sunday and Monday.  YUM.  Look for a recipe soon.

cookies

 
We made these for our neighbors... 

Pecan puffs

 

I used to make these all the time... just found the recipe.  Need to put it on the other blog.  The girls love these!

Christmas Cookies (Sunday 12/11)

Happy Birthday Uncle Don! (We made these cookies on your birthday!) 

Wish we could give you some!

Happy thanksgiving

 

Getting ready to eat!

Final Fall harvest

 

(Plus four more eggplant...) Now I have some roasting to do.

Last Sunday

Nick started planting the winter garden.

Bok choy and broccoli were planted.

 
This is the bok choy.

 
Broccoli pictures coming soon.

Tomatoes #47

When your garden goes a little crazy and gives you a lot of tomatoes you take a bunch, cut them up, throw them in a pan with a little olive oil, a little balsamic, dried basil, oregano, and garlic. Toss them over some noodles. Yum.

 

Deep freeze

Our garden, and fruit trees, produce so much that I decided we needed a deep freeze. Now I have to fill it. Fortunately, I have very prolific tomatoes, and a full Fuji apple tree to help. Egg plants are still ripening, too! Anyone want to come over and help me pick and process from the garden? It's a wonderful problem, but I'm feeling a little overwhelmed!

Bread!

 

On our vacation, my friend made sourdough bread.  This inspired Nick, our bread maker and bread lover.  The girls are pretty stoked.  Even me, someone who doesn't love bread, is pretty excited.  Homemade bread is pretty heavenly.  The first loaf (last Sunday) was a success.  I think we got a picture of it, but it's not on my camera.  Look for upcoming bread posts!

Eggplant

Nick grew these. I cooked them. Good team work!

pancakes

She made pancakes!

 

(July 10)

Corn and tomatoes

 

 

 

Today's harvest!
It might be summer!

Zucchini

Garden by Nick, Natalie, and Tia

 

 

Judi cooks it mostly. Sunday night (last night) we made 4 zucchini--two were turned into zucchini fries, one was turned into zucchini hummus, and one was turned into 4 loaves of zucchini bread (Nick's specialty). 

Muffins

 
Natalie has perfected her chocolate chip muffins!  These cute little silicone muffin liners are awesome.  The dishwasher doesn't like them, but the cook does. They were a mother's day present.  I'll follow up with her recipe on our food blog soon.