Happy Friday!
It is a gloomy day here in South Florida- the clouds are just hanging with grey. But we need the rain! I have been watering the garden almost every day- as we just planted some new veggies.
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| cucumbers |
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| dill |
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| crazy lettuce |
Sweet corn, purple kale, lots of strawberries, cherry tomatoes...and
some sunflowers the boys wanted to randomly plant! Should be an interesting
next few months!
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| more crazy lettuce |
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| our lovely tomatoes |
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| sweet corn- so tiny still |
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| strawberries |
The strawberries are going to have a hard time growing to full size- as my littlest kiddo keeps picking the baby red one's off and popping them in his mouth. We have to work on our patience!
fruits of our labor:
This is some homemade pasta 'gravy'- as I was taught by my very Italian
friend, was the only correct way to call that red stuff you slather all
over pasta....who knew it wasn't called sauce???
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| gravy cooking down |
So- yes...this is the 'gravy' I made a few nights ago, mostly from our backyard garden! We have some lovely heirloom tomatoes, basil, parsley, oregano...and i added my store bought onions and garlic (I am planning on doing garlic in the box at some point- apparently it's pretty easy to grow) and I made meatballs. My kids LOVE meatballs. So I make little Dutch meatballs to make them happy!
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| finished gravy- yum |
Not to shabby- if I do say so myself! My kiddos are even starting to like a little red pepper flakes mixed in! yea!!! We scarfed this batch down in 1 night and lunch the next day.
We are truly loving the back yard garden experience.
~Casey
