Simple dinner with some garden produce

Mon, Sep 8, 2014.

We planned to bottle a couple of our beers. Deb readied the bottles while I grilled produce and black bean burgers. We ate and relaxed and decided to bottle early the next day.

I grilled:

• black bean burgers bought at Costco
• green beans picked last week from our garden
• a pepper from our garden
• a couple peppers from the farmers market
• zucchini from my parent's garden

Before grilling, I doused the produce in olive oil and a little cracked pepper and sea salt.

With the bean burgers on our plate, I added:

• chopped up tomatoes from our garden
• chopped up sorel picked this evening from our garden
• chopped up little white onions picked a few weeks ago from our garden
• DD's homemade ketchup that she canned a couple weekends ago

We split a Rochefort 6 (dubbel), which is one of my favorite beers. Simple, light, and tasty meal. I enjoy eating black bean burgers with tomatoes, onions, and sorel from our garden. DD's ketchup tasted great, and it makes a wonderful addition.

These were the bright green sorel that I picked this evening.

The three garden squares of sorel are still producing. I need to pick some more, clean it, and store it in the frig. It holds up well for quite a while in the refrigerator, so it's best to pick it when it's ready, and then keep it until time to eat it on a salad or on a burger. No point leaving it to wilt in the garden.

In the future, I'll plant sorel over spinach. I have not planted any lettuce this fall. I'm unsure if I will. I should have planted lettuce this past weekend.

The six Health Kick tomato plants are producing well. Some of the other tomato plants are also producing. Peppers are growing. Eggplants, however, have mostly failed. I think the soil is out of wack.

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