It's All About Food

We have been harvesting all sorts of fruits and vegetables, but strawberries and zucchini are in abundance.  The strawberries came back for a second round and they are going crazy - we are getting many more than we expected after such a great harvest in June.  So we eat them every day, and with the local peaches and blueberries in season, it's been delicious.  We've also been eating a lot of zucchini and I have been freezing what we don't eat.  If you have a lot of zucchini too, I contributed my favorite zucchini recipe on a gardening blog I like.

Today I harvested carrots.  This year was definitely our best year for carrots.  The greens are so healthy and huge.  I just planted a few more, hoping maybe we can have some at the end of the season.  Tonight I'm going to make carrott-tarragon soup with a recipe I found online.  The tarragon in the garden is doing great.  It's our first year to grow it and I'm so happy we planted it.  Today I also harvested the garlic.  It is strung up and drying in the garage.  Considering the difficult life it led, I'm happy with the dozen heads I was able to harvest.  Today I also planted some more lettuce, as well as more snap peas, beans, and some herbs. 

And speaking of food  . . . .  look, it's Mary on Man vs. Food Nation (Milwaukee edition) on the Travel Channel last night!  She was in Benji's Deli in Shorewood in June when the crew arrived to do a taping.  That's her friend Mary Traudt giving host Adam Richman a fist bump.  In the background in the orange sweater is our Mary.  She's sitting with a bunch of her friends.  The episode is being replayed on August 6 at 11:00 a.m. and on August 10 at 9:30 p.m.  These times are Eastern/Pacific, so if you're in the Central time zone I believe you would subtract one hour.  It's on the Travel Channel.  The Shorewood kids' appearances are fast, so don't blink!  (Update:  after I posted this, I found that one of Mary's friends had taped the Benji's portion of the episode and put it on Facebook.  So I reposted it,; if you go to my Wall you can find the video.  Brad and Mary did the same thing.)