Greentastic

GREEN LUNCH!
Garden fresh spinach
Broccoli from ValuMarket
Leftover spinach tortellini from the Pasta Factory
Delicious Thursday

Le Jardin

Growth. Then and now.

Bush beans, beets, carrots, kale, tomatoes

Peppers

Corn, Broccoli, peppers, arugula, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes

Lunch Harvest!

Last week Laura and I took a trip to my backyard to harvest some spinach, lettuce, and beet greens for our lunch! We had homemade tortilla sandwiches with garden greens, hummus, and orange peppers with chips and salsa on the side.

Food Foto

Strawberries!

The journey of the strawberry:
Vanmeter Farm in Clarkson, KY.
Redeemer Lutheran Church for the Strawberry Jamm Festival!
- my stomach
My kitchen
- my stomach
Cutting board
Stovetop
Pie shell
My stomach!

I'm so glad my friends Emily and Stephanie could come to visit this weekend- we had a great time touring around, eating good food, and making a heavenly good strawberry pie! Scroll down and drool.

ValuMarket

My $90 bounty from ValuMarket, a locally owned grocery store in Louisville. It kind of looks like Trader Joes when you go in, but it doesn't have organic produce, local eggs, or very much of a granola section. You win some you lose some.

Happy Mother's Day everyone!

Mint for Habitat!

Ari and I are leading a Habitat for Humanity workshop tomorrow evening about home gardening, composting, and where to buy fresh produce. We mentioned this to the leader of our Aspiring Farmer class (put on by SAL Sustainable Agriculture Louisville) and he walked us over to the community garden to harvest a bounty of mint for the habitat families! Herbs are awesome!

Asian Market

This week is going to be Asian food week. Here is my $40 bounty from the Asian food market on the other side of town.

The People's Garden

One of my new favorite things is going to the People's Garden.  They have garden workdays every Wednesday and Saturday.  Today the garden got water from the city and they harvested radishes and salad greens and sold them to two Healthy in a Hurry Corner Stores on the Westend!  Things are moving along.  I planted basil in the beds that previously held radishes and got to feel the warm sun on my shoulders, the moist soil in my hands, and the peace of the outdoors.

Two kind women walked by the garden and came over to see what was going on- I got to explain to them the market garden, children's garden, and the community garden.  I offered them some radishes, but they didn't like them.  I'm not sure if this is a personal realization, but I've found that I pretty much love any kind of food if I'm the one to pick it out of the dirt and eat it.  I don't usually like radishes either, but these are so good and it's so fun to give them a little rinse and eat them in the garden!  We'll see if this is still the case when I have to eat beets and kale out of my garden...

More adventures from the People's Garden to come!

Stuffed peppers

Try these! They're really good. I fixed them for my friends Wendy and Mark for a Sunday lunch a week ago and they were quite impressed. And then you get to keep all of the leftover stuffing to have burritos the rest of the week! Mmm mmm good!

http://simplylovefood.blog.com/2012/02/25/southwestern-stuffed-peppers/