Harvest brunch: the feast

Harvest brunch: the friends

Harvest brunch: the food

Menu:

Tomato, cucumber, goat cheese and balsamic salad

Cucumber, cream cheese sandwiches

Sweet potato leaf, tomato, green pepper, onion, cheddar and jalapeno quiche

Sweet potato leaf, tomato, green pepper, jalapeno, cheddar, onion scramble

Collard greens, onion, cheddar and ham quiche

Leek and goat cheese tart

Beer bread

French toast

Chocolate chip and caramel pancakes

Yogurt and granola

Grapes

Peach cobbler

 

Hungry yet?

Fine art

Vanitas still life

blender (garden) party

we finally figured out what to do with our:
cucumbers
tomatoes
spicy peppers
bell peppers
(and store bought garlic, onion)

GAZPACHO OF COURSE!

uses of a cucumber...

our first heirloom tomato!





the new cutting board was pulled out for this...the mirror really is a useful object.


taste test! which one was better you ask? The smaller one had more of a crunch. The larger one had a more juice core and larger seeds...refrigeration may have helped the larger one out, but we couldn't wait that long!

harvest

our "sunflowers" grew into these!


the "vine-porch" which increases privacy as the vines grow up the strings and along the fence



First cucumbers!! (this was a long time ago...)





a gem of a tomato

Why Sandra has to walk to class

We don't have the heart to kill it.

Leopard print

Peter Piper picked a peck of...

Go bees, go!

Surprise!

Reluctant to turn down any plants that looked like they might live, Ingrid and I planted eight butternut squash plants despite secretly hoping to be surprised with zucchini and/or summer squashes. You can imagine our shock when some of the plants turned out to be cucumbers, and now we've discovered that we also have acorn squashes and a crazy (delicious) yellow striped cucumber!