Tonight, for dinner, we had:
Appetizer: our first sliced tomatoes, still warm from the sun, with salt and pepper
First course: Corn-on-the-cob from the CSA, boiled, with butter and salt.
Second course: a stir-fry, made from our own zucchini, squash from CSA, scallions from CSA, and these absolutely, positively amazing beans from our garden (var: rattlesnake), which can be eaten as nice, fat green beans, or dried like pinto beans. We ate them in a chinese-style stir-fry, which was overpoweringly delicious. Seriously. It was so delicious that we started spooning our sauce over the corn and J was mad that we didn't have any rice to go with it. (I have a thing about 'too many starches'!) But there were leftovers, so we can make rice tomorrow. ; )
Dessert: I had homemade chocolate-chip cookies made last week. J ate those 'Grandma's' brand of choc. chip cookies. I don't know how he stands 'em.
It's so satisfying to walk out the door and pick the food that will be dinner. What a loss that most people don't know what this feels like. It feels like 'diversifying your portfolio' or 'insuring against a loss' or 'I love it when a plan comes together' or, more simply, it feels like magic. Because when you carefully tuck the little seeds in under their soil blankets, you just have to believe that sooner or later, they are going to feed you. And then they do. And I think, 'Wow. What have I done to deserve this?'