What a harvest!

The first real haul of onions!  Wahoo!  Isn't it a lovely way to decorate the railing?

A mix of beans, a kohlrabi, some dill flowers (getting ready for refrigerator pickles), a handful of snap peas and potatoes.  Now, there is a story with those potatoes: In the spring, I had a few potatoes from the store which were beginning to sprout and turn too soft to eat.  So, I buried 5 of them in the backyard and didn't do another thing to them.  And here we are with the results of two of those potatoes, which otherwise would have just been composted!

The beans from above were sauteed and then simmered in a pureed roasted garlic sauce.  All from the yarden!

We ate the above with another tortilla espan(tilde)ola, also from the garden.

Basil for a delicious pesto, another kohlrabi, a days worth of eggs and the remaining three once-squishy potato plants' produce.  And then, the grand disappointment: that pretty cauliflower.  It is my first time growing this vegetable and... maybe I left it too long?  It was disgusting!  And I love cauliflower.  It was just gross.  I found that cooking it in a curry hides the nasty bitterness, so that is how I'll finish using it.

The kids and I went to the dacha today and... whoa!  Such bounty!

The first tomato ceremony!

more purple podded pole beans and a few more onions

what I found at the dacha when I went to tie up the tomatoes

It is so amazing to be able to go out into the yard and find dinner.  Summer is such a blessing!

Check out others' harvests at Daphne's Dandelions.