Flat and Flatter

Today was not a bed of roses for the funny farmers!

It began with the prius having a tire blow out. Bad tire, very bad back right tire! By the time I could safely pull over, the tire had at least six holes in it! David arrived to take the car to the garage while I took Anni home.

Here's the lovely spare that comes with the Prius. Love that color! The garage had to call all around to find the matching tire for Bluebirdie, but by late this afternoon all was well with the Prius. Then David looked at the Accord. A screw was sticking out of the back left tire. Back to the garage, he went. What are the odds of 2 negative tire events in a single day? (Please if anyone actually knows let us know!) We avoided any further activities involving tires for the rest of the day. Anni get off that tricycle!
Did I mention we are starting to get our first blueberries on the bushes we planted this spring?

These ones are especially large.

No, seriously big! That's a nickle between them! And they're tasty too!
Here's today's garden harvest, minus most of the blueberries and all of the strawberries (Anni fruitmiester strikes again!). We pulled our first carrots this morning. And more zucchini, along with a few beans, lots of peas, a cherry tomato, and some herbs. We pulled some of the pea vines in the garden to give more space to a yellow summer squash. We also finally got around to staking the runner beans which were starting to wind themselves around the cabbages and kale.
And as if we didn't have enough produce, the CSA farm box arrived today. It was another good one with cantaloupe, Walla Walla onion, carrots, broccoli, mango, peaches, plums, cherries, radishes, raspberries, roma tomatoes, mushrooms, and bibb lettuce. This time of year, we go heavy on the fruit in the farm box as the garden supplies most of the veggies.

On day 4 of the zucchini 100, we had a summer harvest pizza with zucchini. It was delish! Here's the recipe:

Summer Harvest Pizzas

2 12" pizza crust (or dough to make a crust. We used a whole wheat herb crust)

1 cup of seasoned pizza sauce (We used leftover veggie spaghetti sauce + 1 Tbsp tomato paste)

3 small zucchini, peeled and slice into thin long slices

4 slices of your favorite white cheese, sliced into very thin strips

(We used Munster, but provolone would also be great)

1 cup of mushrooms thinly sliced

1/2 cup of red onion thinly sliced

2 tsp of dried oregano (or 1 Tbsp of fresh if you have it)

1 cup of coursely grated parmesan (or Romano)

Sprinkle of coursely ground pepper

1) Prepare pizza crust and preheat oven to 450 degrees.

2) Add 1/2 cup of pizza sauce to each crust

3) Arrange zucchini slices over top of each pizza

4) Place white cheese strips over pizza, around zucchini slices

5) Add red onion and mushroom slices to pizza

6) Sprinkle each pizza with 1 tsp of oregano (or 1/2 Tbsp of fresh)

7) Top each pizza with 1/2 cup of parmesan and sprinkle with pepper

8) Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

Enjoy! We served this with crispy fresh veggies and a cool dip, along with fresh fruit.

99 zucchini - 15 used so far and 3 given to a friend = 81 to go.