Soup du Squash

When life gives you a metric tonne of Lugo Bianco squash, what do you do? I can tell you from trial and error that Squash-ade is not the answer. Soup is a better option. Roast it up in the oven with some potatoes...
Saute up carrots, onions, and tomato sauce from the garden...
Dice potatoes and puree squash.
End product was unique, tasty but very filling. Cooking with whatever you have growing is definitely an exercise in creativity, but every time I do it I get better ideas for the next time. This dish was inspired by a bowl of cauliflower soup that a friend got at a nice restaurant the previous evening. I wanted more of a creamy texture, but wanted to avoid dairy since I am aspiring toward Veganism. In hindsight maybe I would have pureed the potatoes, maybe let everything simmer longer. C'est la vie.

Pretteh Kittehs

Deserve pretteh kitteh blog posts.

Flowers of Summer

Just have to keep blogging about this year's impressive Sunflowers. They're like trees--
this one was colonized by Morning Glory.
A surprise--after failed trials to get them to grow in a pot, Bells of Ireland springs up from underneath some Pumpkin vine.

OMG!

So crashed!
So hyper!
Welcome to our world.

La-Zee Dayz

Some days we are just useless. And there's nothing any one can freakin' do about it!

No Fertilizer

The best thing about this summer's garden is discovering the plants that flourished with little help from myself after they pass the seedling stage. Not everything came up as I intended, but the stuff that's there is making my backyard look like a jungle, despite the fact that I've virtually ignored the garden since the weather turned hot. Pumpkin and squash are producing vines and bushes with huge leaves running all over the place. Cucumber vine is covering the beds with a green blanket of leaves and dropping tons of fruit underneath. But most impressive is the forest of 10-ft-plus sunflowers that has sprung up. All the more impressive since I didn't even remember to put out any organic fertilizer this year.
Winter squash vine.
Blackberries.
Green Lentil.
Wildflower Larkspur finally showing its pretty face.
It's my Sunflower forest!
Okra.
Summer squash.
It will look much prettier next year when there is lawn instead of plastic.
Corn, sunflower, squash.
Basil, grown from seed.
Young watermelon vine.
Sunberry.

Okra.

Summer Squash.

It will look much prettier next year when there is lawn instead of plastic.

What's the Point of Having a Garden if Your Kitties Can't Scamper Though It?

And yes they are getting along great with the frolicking and playing and so forth, thanks for asking!