Our Garden Dinner

garden, garlic, Green Beans, potatoes, Reflections, Swiss Chard

Thursday we decided to grill up a steak for dinner. It would be delicious with some fresh-from-the-garden veggies.

So we dug up some potatoes.

We picked some Swiss chard. (We like to pick it when it is young and tender.)

And we picked green beans.

I sauteed the Swiss chard in olive oil with minced (freshly dug) garlic. I boiled the potatoes and steamed the green beans, and both were topped with garlic butter.

It was a delicious meal. Such a blessing!

Do you have a favorite fresh-from-the -garden dish?

Thanks for visiting.

19 thoughts on “Our Garden Dinner”

  1. I love fresh veggies!! My cherry tomatoes are starting to ripen and I have a good size big boy tomato that is going on a BLT when it is ripe. The other big boys are still growing. I love tomato sandwiches also.

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    1. Thanks, Anne!
      We try every year to grow sweet corn but have not had success. We usually pick some up at a roadside stand. (Other people around here can grow it.) Corn on the cob is one of those treats you can only get in summer. 🙂

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  8. Ruth, you two are very self-sufficient with your garden (and your fruit-bearing trees too). Your meal looks delicious. I have never had a veggie garden because the first year we lived here, my mom asked my dad to plant some beefsteak tomatoes (her favorite) at the side of the house where there was a lot of sun and would therefore not be in the backyard with flowers, etc. The squirrels and birds had a field day sampling them, often taking one bite, discarding the rest … then taking another one tomato and one bite … ’til they were all off the vine and discarded around the yard. Really?! That was the end of a veggie garden at this house. We also have raccoons and possums around – hopefully the groundhog is gone. My mom loved new potatoes and once they were out, they never sold them in the grocery store, so we would go for a drive in the country or our City recruited vendors and started its own farm market every Sunday. They always had new potatoes there. Mom would boil them up, cut them open and put a lot of butter on top and make a meal of them.

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    1. I’m sure you know from following my blog that we have those kinds of losses and now use a lot of fencing and netting to protect our crops from the critters. It can be so disappointing to find that your hard work is just gone. 😦 Deer and birds are the worst here. Deer will take a couple bites from a pumpkin or squash and then move on to the next one. Even fences and netting are not 100% protection, but they greatly increase our yields.

      I don’t think I ever had new potatoes until we started growing our own. Then they suddenly became one of my favorites. They are definitely worth the effort to grow. Do you still have a farmers’ market in your city?

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      1. Yes, I remember all the work your husband went through with the fence, but it was well worth the effort. My mom loved those new potatoes, especially the ones that were very tiny. When Farmer Jack went out of business suddenly in 2006, I started shopping at Meijer and they had the fingerling potatoes in a quart-sized plastic box. So we started getting them sometimes too. We still do have a farmer’s market and, as a matter of fact, they have a Christmas in July event tomorrow with some Christmas crafts and a Santa lookalike contest. I heard about that on WWJ AM 950 this morning. It is not a big market but they have the same vendors every week. The biggest market Downriver is Trenton’s farm market which is every Thursday. It draws a crowd from the pictures I’ve seen.

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