Category Archives: Green Beans

Preserving the Harvest

canning, Cucumbers, Green Beans, Pickles, Preserving, Reflections

Hello and welcome.

Our cucumbers are coming in fast and furious.

Earlier in the week I made two quarts of refrigerator dill pickles.

Then today I made 5 pints of bread and butter pickles.

The recipe I used is from the Ball Blue Book.

We’ve been eating a lot of green beans, so it was time to put some in the freezer. I froze four packages today.

It’s not time for making tomato sauce yet but we did pick our first (2) ripe tomatoes. One for each of us. They were small but delicious.

Thanks for visiting.

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.