Monthly Archives: September 2013
Oven Roasted Tomatoes
Today, as yellow school buses roared by our house splashing rainwater onto My Victory Garden, I roasted cookie sheets filled with garden tomatoes topped with salt and olive oil. Our home smelled like the color red with all the acidic edges of tomatoes roasted sweet like jam. And I sampled a few bites for quality […]
Tomato Bacon Sandwich
We do not eat BLT’s in our home, oh no, we eat Tomato Bacon Sandwiches. It’s important to have your priorities straight during the heirloom tomato season. My favorite heirloom tomatoes, Pink Caspian and Green Zebra tomatoes, are pouring out of My Victory Garden right now. So, I bought a loaf of cheap white bread, […]
Fingerling Potato Chips
I forgot to buy the potato chips to accompany my first tomato bacon sandwich of the season. And I’m so glad that I forgot! Instead of heading to the store, I simply grabbed a shovel and dug a few handfuls of fingerling potatoes out of the ground while I chatted with my neighbor. I stepped […]
Editing My Victory Garden
This spring, I was charmed with the borage in My Victory Garden. Bees adore borage and my garden hummed with the happy little workers. The borage volunteers that started from a single sickly plant four years developed world domination issues and grew over five feet tall. It’s such a beautiful thug. I enjoyed taking pictures […]