Growing Chefs

One of the things I look forward to every year is Growing Chefs. If you follow the link, you can read all about it - it is one of the things I do that I am really proud of. Today, my team had our class planting herb seeds and planning experiments to go along with that. Next time they will be learning about pickling and preserving.

Participating in Growing Chefs has helped me to uncover a new passion - teaching children about food....

My wonderful team

Harvest

 

These are the first tomatoes we have evr grown. We ate one standing at the counter with salt and pepper. The other one is going with our flank steak tacos tonight.

Fresh from the garden

I have been busy with my little patio garden and tonight we enjoyed some of the "fruits" of our labour. I made fresh pasta with some pesto, feta, tomatoes and some of the purple peas from our garden.

I suspect the peas are more of a shucking pea, but it was fun to eat the first ones like this. The downside to the purple peas? They share their colour with whatever they touch after they have been blanched. Case in point: my fingers.

Garden Greens!

These are the first greens from my container garden ; watercress, radicchio, spinach and arugula.

They went into this delicious salmon sandwich on Terra Breads Pizza Bianco Bread (new and o so delicious)