Harvest Monday

New to the harvest this week was one zucchini and one cubanelle pepper. Cucumbers, tomatoes (not as prolific) and eggplants are producing. Most of the other peppers are very sparse and the wonder beans are no wonder for me: no flowers just lots of leaves.


This last photo is of Sunday's harvest: the first zucchini above the blueberries and the first cubanelle in the center. I got another goldie tomato though I thought they were done.

See other harvests at Daphne's Dandelions.

Eggplant

I picked my largest eggplants this evening. I had a hankering for fried eggplant so decided that they were big enough to pick: one of each variety.

I sliced them up into spears.

Tossed them in beaten egg.

Then tossed them in bread crumbs.

Heated a skillet with corn oil to brown them up.

Turned them over since they each had three or four sides.

Placed them on a paper towel to drain and served them up. I sometimes drizzle syrup on my fried eggplant. They were so good.

Here's the tomato dish we had with our supper: scalloped tomatoes a Joy of Cooking recipe. Very easy. Sauteed onions in butter, add brown sugar, dried crumbs, cut up tomatoes and place in casserole. Top with crumb mixture and bake at 350º for 30 minutes. One of our favorite tomato dishes.

Another Harvest Monday

Tomatoes and cucumbers are the extent of my harvest. Peppers are doing nothing. Eggplants are growing exceedingly slowly. Zucchini doesn't seem to want to form and beans haven't bloomed yet.

Picked this past week: 21 tomatoes and 5 cucumbers.

See other harvests at Daphne's Dandelions.

Looking For a Good Book?

I just finished "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford. It was true to its name: bittersweet. It takes place in two time periods in Seattle, before and during WWII and in 1986 Seattle. You learn quite a bit about the treatment of Japanese-Americans during the war. A sad chapter in our history.

Looking for a good book to read? Look for this one.