Latest Eats (June 2025) – A Wholesome Slice of Life
We’re experiencing a warmth wave this week, and I’m sure we aren’t alone. The midafternoons have been sweltering the previous couple of days to the purpose the place being exterior feels suffocating. Ah, summer season 😉
Due to this I’ve targeted on getting out within the mornings and evenings. The mornings for the chicks, the backyard, and Finley walks. The early evenings for bringing the neighborhood rooster flock frozen watermelon and taking Finley on one other run (beside the golf cart as a result of I’ve reached my capability by that time). How are the temps the place you’re?
The excellent news about all this sunshine and summer season rain (to return tomorrow I consider) is that the backyard is flourishing. I largely have the squash bugs below management. What I’ve discovered is that whereas there could also be some deterrents, the one actual option to preserve them from utterly ruining the vegetation is to spend a couple of minutes within the morning and night (when they’re most energetic) selecting them off, drowning them in dish detergent water, and crushing their eggs. Who knew gardening would make me into such a merciless particular person? It sounds violent, does it not? However it’s efficient!
I say all of this as a longwinded intro to sharing that we’ve been consuming a whole lot of backyard produce! And I hope I all the time really feel the joys of exhilaration after I decide one thing from the backyard, and prepare dinner it as much as eat. I’m unsure I can consider something that feels extra satisfying.
Proper now that’s largely cucumbers, squash, kale, parsley, thyme, and jalapenos, however I’ve gotten a couple of bell peppers, too, and final evening we ate our first lovely Cherokee Purple slicer tomato with dinner and I virtually cried a tear of pleasure. Cue that audio that claims one minute you’re younger and funky and the subsequent you’re taking photos of the greens in your backyard. Responsible as charged.
Okay, right here’s a few of my favourite meals we’ve loved over the previous few weeks!
To begin with, I’ve been on a dried bean kick. I’ve been selecting up Rancho Gordo beans from Swamp Rabbit Grocery, soaking them for the primary half of the day, then simmering them the second half. I take advantage of onion, garlic, vegetable broth, thyme from the backyard, and bay leaves. They go nice with rice, with taco bowls, or only a aspect on their very own! They don’t hassle my abdomen the way in which canned beans generally do and hooray for extra fiber.
Breakfast has been certainly one of my favourite meals of late. It’s both been Siggi’s yogurt with chia seeds and fruit or what we’ve began calling “farm breakfast.”
Farm breakfast has many variations, nevertheless it largely consists of yellow squash, kale, and parsley from the backyard with onion and rooster sausages (frozen from Costco). Then an egg or two on high. Avocado if I’ve it. And currently, blueberries on the aspect from blueberry bushes simply down the road.
Lunches are far and wide. A pair instances it’s been sandwiches on sourdough with dill pickle kraut on the aspect. And as soon as my tomatoes begin rolling in with any consistency, it’s going to be BLTs! However normally it’s heated up leftovers or snack plates.
- Do-it-yourself sourdough with turkey, cheddar, avocado, tomato, mayo, and dijon.
- Reheated baked potato with bitter cream and chives (from the backyard), broccoli, and pan-fried rooster.
- Easy tuna salad with hemp hearts and radish microgreens on the aspect
- Leftover hamburger, dill pickle kraut, and cucumber salad with reheated roasted candy potatoes and asparagus.
I’ve an extended checklist of eating places to strive within the Greenville space and I really feel like we’re simply beginning to settle into life sufficient to plan instances to strive them out. Final week we went on a double date with buddies to Topsoil in Traveler’s Relaxation. David and I went on a Christmas date evening there in December and liked it. Topsoil is farm-to-table expertise with a powerful concentrate on seasonality and regionally sourced components. It’s in.cred.i.ble. particularly if you happen to geek out over good meals and fancy drinks like I do.
They’ve plates for the desk, however then every particular person will get a 3 course expertise: one appetizer, one entree, and one dessert. David and I each opted for 2 appetizers every and skipped dessert so we might have the chance to strive all the flamboyant issues like escargot, veal sweetbreads, tuna crudo, and extra. It was superb!
Okay, honest query: How lengthy till it will get outdated for me to notice “from the backyard” from something I decide and prepare dinner from the backyard? As a result of my internal voice is telling me it’s annoying however my gleeful satisfaction is popping cartwheels whereas it sings, frommm theee garrrrrrdennnn!
On second thought, don’t reply that…
However I do hope you could have a superb day!
