Above is a photo of the Chicken Marsala (made with our own pastured poultry) and garlic scapes (from my garden). Chicken Marsala is one of my favorite chicken dishes, and I've been working on perfecting my recipe for awhile now.
Next, I tried a new recipe - Thai Summer Rolls with Peanut Sauce. These came out great! They're filled with raw vegetables (so healthy!) and were pretty easy to make. They were also a great dinner for a hot summer night.
The raspberries ripened and I baked two Raspberry Coffee Cakes, in addition to adding them to scones. I thought I'd get enough raspberries at once to can raspberry jam this year, but the dry weather didn't let that happen.
Just as things started to ripen in the garden, we left for a week on a vacation that we had planned a year ago. I harvested a lot of lettuce, some peas, and several zucchini before we left, and hoped everything else would be okay while we were gone. My husband set up automatic waterers and we told our neighbor she was welcome to harvest anything she liked.
I used the zucchini we brought with us to make crab-cake stuffed zucchini - yum!
We returned to a fridge full of zucchini and a garden that had practically doubled in size! I harvested enough cucumbers to can one batch of Bread & Butter Pickles, one batch of Hamburger Dills, and one batch of Dill Relish the day after we got home. I picked the green and purple string beans and made a Bean Salad:
The lettuce bolted due to the hot weather we had while we were gone, so I guess we're finished with fresh salads for awhile. The broccoli has started to produce heads, the spaghetti squash is growing well, and the tomatoes are still green. I harvested the shallots, most of the garlic, and some of the onions.
