Good eatin'

Today was another beautiful day in the Pacific Northwest. We finally hit 75 degrees! Wahoo! This officially marks the start of summer salads for dinner season. Here's our first for 2010: a Chinese chicken salad featuring lettuce, green onions, cilantro (all from our garden), radishes, celery, apricots, hazelnuts (all from the farmer's market), and nectarines (from our CSA box). It was delish!

We had strawberries from our patch with fresh whipped cream for desert. The garden strawberry patch is being especially prolific this year. We've harvested 276 strawberries so far! Everyday, we race the slugs to the red ones. So far, we're faster!

In other produce news, we also harvested collard greens and chard from our garden today, and our CSA farm box arrived full of seasonal goodness. This time we went heavy on the summer fruits. Our box featured carrots, spinach, peas, mushrooms, tomatoes, avocado, blueberries, oranges, grapefruit, apricots, nectarines, blueberries, and more strawberries! There may be shortcake in our future.

Anni happily cooked on at her camp. Today, she made English food. She mixed up a sherry cream sauce to baste pork tenderloin as it roasted, and then added butter cooked apples and onions. Next, she made mini apple spice bundt cakes. We enjoyed our lunch immensely (and now I need to run again!).