Some pickings today in the garden… also, our first strawberries of the season! Not sure what I’m doing differently with the strawberries this year, but in the past my berries have been on the smaller size, but these are the full deal! So keep growing big strawberries! AND OH MY WERE THEY DELICIOUS!
By the way, check out the size of this broccoli head. Amazing!
I picked up some fresh corn a few days ago but haven’t been in a corn-on-the-cob mood. So tonight I made this simple corn salad in a few minutes, boy was the freshness tasted! If you’re going to make this, please don’t use frozen/canned corn, go the fresh route, it really will please your mouth. I promise.
Ingredients:
(2 servings)
2 ears of corn
1/2 tablespoon butter – melted
1 tablespoon lime juice
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro – chopped
salt/pepper to taste
Directions:
Husk corn.
Remove the corn from the cobs. The easiest way is to use a sharp knife and carefully cut down, the corn will fall off. Do this in a bowl, it will save a mess.
Heat a small pot of water to boil, add corn, cook for just 2 minutes. Drain.
Add melted butter, lime juice, salt/pepper in bowl and mix. Add corn and mix.
Add cilantro, mix more.
Enjoy!
Today we rolled down all the fabric and basked in the glory of what we saw – it’s green, it’s growing, it’s garden time. It feels like the time has arrived, even though we’ve been working towards this all year. Behind the cut you’re going to be overloaded with pictures, I thought I’d update you on everything as I couldn’t control my fingers from taking pictures. If you garden, how’s it going where you live? Are you getting harvest of anything? What are you most excited about?
Today we harvested more kale and broccoli. We can’t decide which one is for dinner yet. 
Here’s the garden in all it’s glory. Nothing like just seeing green to brighten up your day in my opinion. 
One more to tease you..well actually tease me.. because I can’t wait!
Dinner last night, lunch today, day dreaming about it all the time.
Pita bread + olive hummus + lettuce + spinach + tomatoes + black olives. YES.
Currently obsessed with olive hummus. And when I say obsessed I mean every snack and for dinner tonight. And I’m going to buy more in a few minutes just in case I run out, I have backup. It’s very serious. How do you like your hummus? I like it with crackers or vegetables, preferably carrots/broccoli/cauliflower, and also in pitas, of course. I’m going to try hummus lettuce wraps tonight, MMMM.
Update: Just came from grocery store, oh yeaaaaaaaaah. 
In my search of “What to do with kale?” I found a great kale calzone recipe from the Victory Garden Cookbook. This cookbook is definitely a keeper if you have your own garden, most of the time I can be found just reading it for pleasure.. it’s that good. So let’s make some calzones! Full recipe behind the cut.
We picked our first broccoli of the year today, we picked 2 heads to have for dinner tonight. These are the biggest broccoli heads we’ve ever grown! I would like to give a shout out to the broccoli because whenever I was feeling down I would just take a look at you guys and realize anything is possible.
This weekend I revisited the Nutella with sea salt fudge recipe. After packing it all up for the dinner party, we were left with just 5 pieces for us which is great because this fudge is dangerously good. It surprisingly held up well with traveling during the heat on Saturday, but I would be sure to refrigerate many hours before hand. Have you tried it yet?
Upon knowing I was going to make these I knew I needed some mini cupcake liners, so I came across this entire aisle of every color/pattern you could possibly want. It was so beautiful, I cried.
More dinner party pictures behind the cut.
The broccoli is very close to being picked, last night they magically leveled up to the next size. We are going to have a bunch of broccoli for the rest of the month!
Our kale in the garden is out of hand, it’s basically taking over. So last night I decided to pick some to make kale meatballs! Not only are the ingredients easy, but the directions are as well. While eating dinner Matthew proclaimed “This is the best spaghetti meal I ever had in my life”. Good job kale!
Recipe comes from here with my tweaks below.
Ingredients:
2 cups uncooked chopped fresh kale
1 pound ground turkey
Pinch of dried rosemary, parsley, oregano
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 cloves garlic
1 egg
Directions:
Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to a pan over medium high heat. Add kale and spices. Cook until your kale is wilted.
Put kale mixture and garlic into a food processor and chop it up. Add your turkey and egg and pulse until it’s all combined.
Form this mixture into 1 inch balls.
Add one more tablespoon of olive oil into your previous pan, turn to medium-high heat and then add your meatballs. Cook until browned on both sides (make sure to flip them).
Serve with some spaghetti, sauce, grana padano on top..and some bread on the side!
Enjoy!
Figured I’d make a garden update in video form today. Apologies for the audio due to the wind, but consider it part of the experience!
Check out the potatoes, don’t they look perfect, almost like they’re fake? Well they are real and growing by the minute, check them out just 2 weeks ago.
We had to weed out the carrots a few days ago.. sorry baby carrots, but you will be composted and go back into the garden!
Here’s the carrots in all it’s glory, grow carrots grow! Hoping for close to 50 carrots! 
This smoothie will have you full and refreshed. You can substitute anything you like so there’s many variations possible.
For this I put in my blender some fresh watermelon chunks with a little bit of lemonade. Then I blended until smooth. Add some fresh mint on top. Yum!
