Mealtime Memories
Summertime is always filled with fruitful harvests. In the beginning everything you harvest you enjoy eating but it seems like by the end of the summer you can’t give away your crop fast enough. Well here is your solution for changing up your tomato abundance. This garden fresh tomato soup will leave you wishing you had more tomatoes. [Read more…]
I love the memory of picking raspberries, strawberries and snap peas from my grandmother’s gardens. I know that most of the harvest didn’t make the dinner table because we snacked in the garden, but loved every minute of it. We would come inside from playing, with scratches all over our bodies from digging for raspberries. I think watching the grandkids enjoy the harvest was even more exciting then the actual harvest.
Is it just me, or do summer dinners consist of garden harvests? I remember growing up loathing the tomato plate that always found its place on our dinner table. My brothers hated baby food soup made from garden squash. Summer meals were always filled with squash, peaches, tomatoes, kale, or other popular crops.
Well, I have created a meal this week that can be made from your garden’s harvest, or if your harvest is sparse you can use canned fruits/vegetables. This maybe one of my favorite meals.
Menu:
Grilled onions/squash/zucchini
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This is my recipe if I want to impress. You know what I’m talking about…right? Well this berry trifle literally changed my life!
Looking for a fun twist to the typical summer salad? This Berry Feta Salad with Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing will be a hit.
I love mixing berries into my summer salads for a little extra flavor and for some fun colors. The greens, reds and blues in this salad look almost too good to eat.
My favorite summer foods are watermelon and corn on the cob! I never get sick of them. In fact I remember cutting the corn off the cob when I had braces to avoid the full effect of the corn removal from braces following. No matter how much work it took to get it all out, it was always worth it!
When I was pregnant with my son I discovered I had a food allergy for corn. It was right in the start of summer and I was devastated! It took every power in my will to avoid it. I would watch others munch on their crisp corn and drool. Pathetic I know!
Sometimes I will sneak in just one cob just to remember how it tastes. I sound like I’m making out with it and always tell my husband how good it is and he is like it’s not that good you just haven’t had it in a while.
Well the last time I snuck a cob of corn, I made it with this simple recipe and I swear it was the best corn I have ever eaten!
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Instructions
I know, you’re probably thinking anything tastes better with a stick of butter but this hands down takes the cake!
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