Fresh food.
Is there anything better than summertime food? Plucked right off the vine and eaten with no more than a wash and a wipe, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers are summery heaven in your own back yard.
And if you got enraptured by flowers at the garden center and neglected to plant all the veggies you now want to eat (Don’t feel bad. I did it, too.) you just head right on down to the farmers’ market and load up there.
For lunch the other day, I made a simple leafless salad of tomato, cucumber, black olives, and sweet Vidalia onion with only a drizzle of red wine vinegar to put me right with the world.
For dinner, since I was alone and no one would complain about “leftovers”, I had the same again with only the addition of chicken and some cooked zucchini and yellow squash. Again, it’s heaven.
Summer eating is the exact opposite of winter eating. While during the winter all you want is sugars and fats to keep your furnace burning, in the summertime, I can stuff myself all day long with fresh veg.
I hope you’re all enjoying your summer garden as much as I am. And if you keep planning and planting now, your summer garden can last long after the first fall frosts. But more on that later. For now, just enjoy the reddest tomatoes, the purplest eggplant, and the pepperiest peppers and relax into summer eating.
