21.8.09

farm dinner


The potatoes, straight from the garden

We started to harvest the potatoes today. This has to be one of my favorite things to do in the garden. It is like a treasure hunt -- you feel around down into the soil, and suddenly you find lots of potatoes in all sizes from fists to fingers and marbles. This year, we planted only French fingerlings -- they are very beautiful, with a core of pink flesh. We also harvested the first ripe cherry tomatoes, some gorgeous Greyzini Zucchini (which ripen faster than traditional zucchinis), round cucumbers, and yellow onions. We just ate the last blueberries from our bush, and four peaches are ripening on the tree we planted last year. For dinner tonight, we're planning a meal made solely from foods we've raised ourselves, a first this season, because of the rainy weather.

The menu:

Steamed fingerling potatoes with olive oil, rosemary and Maine sea salt

Zucchini and onion tart in a hazelnut-thyme crust, made with our own eggs and fresh-cut bacon, adapted from Chocolate & Zucchini

Canned spiced rhubarb (I put up more than 20 jars) with Walpole Creamery ginger ice cream

Steamed Fingerling Potatoes

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