July 25 - Bounty Basket and more...

This year we signed up for CSA at a local farm and picked up my first half share and a flower share. I was surprised to see all the goodness in the basket. Hiding inside are freshly picked Eggplant, corn, Beans, Lettuce, Daikon along with Anise, Onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini. One good thing I felt about this is, I am trying some vegatables which I never bought before and now onus is on us to finish up everything before we get more next week :). Flowers can brighten anyones day...

 

Homemade Paneer

Milk Curdling

Paneer 

Then ...here comes the Rainbow

 

This turned out to be a big storm...

 

Visit to Butterfly Garden

 

 

 

 

First Tomato of the year..

 

 

Blueberry Muffins

Few plain Blueberry Muffins...

 Dough before baking...

Anyone out there used this kind of vending machine to get your coke??

 

Trip to Vermont...

 

 

 

 

Handful of wild berries picked on a bike path in Vermont..

Nutty Treats

These are made of  slightly roasted sliced almond paste + Dates paste and a bit of honey...

Peace Lily growing back

I am happy to see that this plant which got affected by frost is growing back. Thanks to Granny for providing me this idea to cut it back to the level of soil and give it a dose of fertilizer. This worked and now time to move it to a new container and fresh soil.

Its July already?

Things seem to be slower this year and tomato plants are growing very slowly (could be the lack of fertilizer which I am postposning to add). Herbs are doing good...

 

 

Potato Flowers

Parsley

   Polka dot plant

Kale Chips make a great snack

 

I tried these for the first time and they turned delicious and something to go for a quick snack...

Red Sail Lettuce doing great

Even in summer, this lettuce hasn't turned bitter and growing well and adding to our salads. I am so happy to find this heat tolerant variety to grow...