Livin' La Vida Locavore

Here's how it goes lately in my house: I check the garden throughout the day, monitor the growth and then decide what I can make for dinner with what I've got. Apparently, I've become a Locavore, someone who eats locally. I love the challenge of developing a meal around what I've grown. I love being able to just go out and pick dinner. And, most of all, I love being able to bypass the produce section at the grocery store knowing I've got my staples at home already. Here's a few things I've been cooking up:

Grilled yellow squash
Greek salad with cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes from my garden
Tuscan Tomato Salad
Pico de Gallo with cilantro and tomatoes from my garden

Now that it's mid-season and some of my crops haven't grown at all, to my great disappointment, I may yank those and start with something new. Like everything else in life, I am making it up as I go and figuring it out on the fly.

In other gardening news, I recommend a show on PlanetGreen called The Fabulous Beekman Boys. It's about 2 former NYC corporate execs who move to upstate NY and become farmers. Fascinating and hysterical. I also recommend their book The Bucolic Plague. Disclosure: I haven't read it yet but it's on my reading list.