Our first harvest: Summer Squash
It doesn’t get any fresher than going out to your back yard garden and picking your food for lunch. Yesterday we harvested our first vegetables since planting our garden. 4 Beautiful yellow summer squashes were ready to go.
We are so excited about tasting our own home-grown food that we didn’t do too much with fancy recipes. On the other hand, summer squash is not our favorite food to eat raw because it has a sort of sliminess when you cut it open.
So we enjoyed our squash by slicing it into rounds and steaming them for about 15 minutes. Then we liberally applied nutritional yeast and added a dusting of herbamare (sea salt mixed with herbs). So delicious.
Summer squash from the store is pretty tasty. Summer squash direct from the garden is full of a buttery flavor. Easily the best squash I’ve ever tasted!
At least a couple of dozen more squash vegetables are already forming on our 8 squash plants so we should be enjoying them a few at a time for a while. Next vegetable ready for harvesting will probably be our chard greens.
1 Comment Posted by Diana | Category: Gardening, Recipes
Yum… I have a squash in the fridge waiting for me to slice and cook it. Maybe this was the inspiration I needed.