This is what I had for lunch today:
Yum.
It's just a salad. Just a bowl of lettuce, tomato, sauteed squash, pecans and feta cheese*.
Except it's not just that.
It's the lettuce that A. planted for me last month so that I would have more when our winter-planted lettuce bolted.
It's the tomatoes I started from seed in March, even though last year's tomatoes were kind of pathetic and I had no great hopes for this year's harvest.
It's the squash that volunteered in the middle of the tomato plants and I left in even though I was sure the fruits would be those unappealing orange pumpkins that I don't actually want to eat as winter squash. Except this year I discovered I could eat them as immature squash in place of zucchini.
It's consideration, and hope, and experimentation, and work. All of that in a bowl.
And it was delicious.
* I very, very rarely have feta, even though I love it, but my brother-in-law brought it with him when his family came to visit. I didn't ask him to; he just did. So we'll add luck and family to that bowl, too. Nothing special about the pecans, though. I just buy them in bulk online.
3 comments:
Definitely looks good, lacking nothing but possibly kalamata olives. Meanwhile, I am harvesting garlic and noticing that my tomatoes look like they will start ripening about August 1. Lots of Alma peppers forming. Farmer's market supplying my lettuce at the moment.
What a gem , your brother-in-law.
Looks very good to me.
All the more appetizing when it's food you grew!
Linda
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