Wanted to leave you with a few pretty pictures of our harvests. This is our gai lan (Asian green; related to broccoli, I believe) that we blanched and froze:
Just look at the cute (and tasty) flowers on it!
We also harvested a large black trash bag full of basil - regular Italian, plus lime and lemon basils. I washed them, and you can see the boys' hands in this photo as they picked all the leaves off the stems.
Dh did most of the actual processing work making the pesto, using up a whole bottle of olive oil (we like the Spectrum Organic ones), and about 6 lemons. Yum!! Here it is, in its blurry glory (darn shaky hands):
What have you harvested or processed in the past week or two? I know some of you have already made luscious jams from various berries!"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams
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This pesto thing looks good - what else do you put in it? Just oil, basil and lemon? That's not all, right...?
That pesto looks great, can you post the full recipe, or do you prepare to taste? What do you use gai lan for?
Does the pesto have to sit for a certain amount of time before you use it? You can tell I know nothing about pesto!
Yum yum! Hope you're having a fabulous start to your trip!
DElicious!!!!! Do you deliver? :)
I'm afraid the only thing I've processed in the last few weeks are drawings!
That pesto looks fabulous! But after looking at the bounty you've harvested, I'm having garden envy (again!) In the last few weeks we've harvested some strawberries, lettuce, sugar snap peas, carrot, and patty pan squash. Forget about processing any of it - we've ate it all!
I'm very sad to say I haven't harvested a thing mainly because I haven't planted a thing. My maiden name was Gardner but never was a person so mis-named.
I LOVE Vancouver, such a great city. Such a great foodie city! Have a brilliant time.
My previously "hopeful" garden has yielded nothing but rotten radishes, slug-infested broccoli and mildewed lettuce. Damn the rain. But your pesto looks great!
Have fun in Vancouver! You're just a couple of hours north of me now. We haven't harvested anything as we didn't plant a garden this year. :-( We did go to the farmer's market yesterday. I bought a lot of zucchini and plan to make several loaves of zucchini bread to eat and freeze. Do your sons just help a lot? Or do you pay them? Or is that their chores? My kids have regular chores and help with things that they are particularly interested in, but if I had a garden, I'd be doing 99% of the work. I tell them that I am the Little Red Hen...
Homemade pesto- wow! Everything you harvest looks so wonderful.
I plan to have a garden next year when things slow down a bit around here...
Hugs
Hope you're having fun visiting "home". I love the picture of the boys picking the leaves off the basil. I can just imagine how wonderful the kitchen smelled during the processing!
Welcome, welcome, home, home.
I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
In the mean time, I left you something on my blog, Come check it out!
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