Back in the D to the garden full of herbs and veggies!
My husband @matt-a and I made it back home last night after being away in Eastern Kentucky for almost three weeks! It was my first time there during summer and it was a lot of fun, we got to check out plenty of cool spots and I am going to talk about it more in my future posts (sorry, gotta edit the photos first).
Right now though, I would like to share a recipe of a simple summer salad you can make if you grow a small garden. This year we didn't plant a lot of things, just a couple pepper plants, some cherry tomatoes and cucumbers. All of the herbs in the photos came back themselves from last year which of course I am very happy about.
Here we go!
Some tomatoes and peppers are already ripe and ready to be picked!
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Same goes for parsley and basil :)
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So, to make this simple and light dish you are going to need:
- a couple sweet peppers;
- a few cherry tomatoes;
- some parsley;
- some basil;
- a small cucumber;
- extra virgin olive oil;
- salt and black pepper to taste.
Slice and dice all of the ingredients, place them in a bowl, add salt and olive oil, maybe some balsamic vinegar if you're into it and toss.
DONE! Summer salad is ready to be consumed!
When I was harvesting the vegetables in the garden our cat Lenorka was just chilling in the shade of cucumber leaves, ain't she a cutie :)
Warm welcome back @kotturinn after along absence ..... I have missed you and your beautiful posts on steemit....Hope you would enjoyed a lot at Eastern Kentucky .... Please share your journey with us by telling some memorable events, spots and by sharing your photographs.... I am really anxious to know about your trip and 3 week holidays.............. Your's today recipe of summer salad is look very pretty I will try it today.........you grow all these things at your own garden???..... I have no garden over here in my city home but I have a big garden and farmhouse near my mountainous home which is 200 km away from here..... I go there once in a month... so I m going to buy all these thing from the market right now... Lenorka is looking very cute in the garden... I love it...
Thank you @nazirkhyber! I'm very pleased to know you enjoyed my new post!
Yes, I do grow all of those vegetables and herbs myself. This year though I didn't plant a lot of them, sadly. I was going to go to the green house to buy plants for my garden but they were closed for the season so I didn't get to grow more, oh well. Well hopefully next year I will have a bigger garden.
What kind of veggies or fruits do you grow in your garden?
Welcom @kotturinn ....I'm really pleased too , to hear from you... I always enjoy your beautiful and useful posts and recipes... and now by reading your post I love your cats too ... Apple (Black, Golden) Apricot, Cherries Grapes , Orange, Peer, Plums , Wall nut and Almond and many more fruits is our famous fruits of Swat Valley......Tomato, onion lady fingers Carrot, potato, Cucumber, Capsicum, green chili, Ginger, Garlic, spinach etc are our famous vegetables...... our valley is also very famous for the rice and trout fishes which only exist in the cold water of river Swat....... My home town is cold area , Its a beautiful valley which has beautiful mountains Blue water River flows in the middle of the valley which comes from the glaciers of Kalam....
Lets come to my own garden which has an area of two acres .....And we have planted trees of Apple Grapes and Apricot in our own garden and some vegetable like tomato, lady fingers, Cucumber, green chili, Garlic and spinach we grow in our garden... @kotturinn I will send you the Pics of my own garden. Please do some love to Ortek, Lenorka and Foofa ...... Have a great time @kotturinn .....
Oh wow! Sounds like you have a very serious garden going on! My grandparents used to have a pretty big garden too, they grew plums, pears, peaches, apples, a bunch of different berries, a lot of potatoes, grapes and beans, I would always help them around when I was a kid. Now my grandma is really old and she doesn't really do much of gardening anymore.
Its really nice @kotturinn .... That many things are common between us ....... I like pets like cats, birds and dogs and you too... I like gardening and nature ........ And specially I always liked your posted recipes ..... I like smiling faces and you too.... so I am really happy to meet you... In this very very large, infinite universe and on the busy planet(earth) I got a friend like you......... Its great achievement for me that I have a caring and loving friend like you @kotturinn ................... I will tell you a lot of stories about me and my life....... say my warm regards to your grandma... Because I like and love the senior peoples.... Like your Grandma... Have a loving time..........nazir
Thanks a lot! I shall have a good time and hopefully you have a great day as well!
Great photos! I am new on steemit and was looking around since I have great passion in photography! I love your shots! Hope I can upload photos with this quality soon!
Thank you! I try my best!
Abrolutely fantastic camera work right there, @kotturinn. It's always a great feeling to see things grow, specially the ones you have planted on your own. Preparing a salad is not rocket science, but harvesting the ingredients from your own backyard is a satisfying bliss to have. I am sure the salad must have turned out to be as delicious and healthy as beautiful it is, by the sheer looks of it.
And yeah will look forward to your Kentucky stories in your subsequent posts.
Thank you @vinyprop! Yeah salads are super easy to make, which makes them great in my opinion! This time my garden didn't have much variety compared to last year, but there's still something to harvest haha.
I am going to make a post about hiking in Appalachian mountains here in the coming days, hopefully you find it interesting! I am not very good when it comes to writing, but I try to take decent looking pictures haha!
Hey @kotturinn, your writing and your photography both are commendable, in my opinion. Keep up the good work.. ☺️☺️✌️
Thanks, gotta practice more, besides English is my second language.
Ohh is that so? Which is your first?
My native language is Russian :)
Russian being your mother tongue, your English is nothing less than fantastic ☺️☺️. English isnt my mother tongue either, but, since I am from India we have English in our curriculum, right from kindergarten.. 😬😬 It was great to have gotten a chance to interact with you, all thanks to this awesome platform, which connects us all like a global family. A community beyond boundaries. ✌️✌️
So much fun to harvest your home grown produce, even more fun to eat it :) unfortunately... I have to eat store bought pre-packaged tonight.... thanks for reminding me I had it thou.
Well sometimes we gotta eat whatever we got! Store bought vegetables and fruits are good in my opinion especially if you buy them when they are in season!
I can feel the fresh smell coming from the garden
And i think Lenorka was about to hunt something 😂
Thank you! She actually loves to hunt, sometimes she even digs out earthworms and eats them, nasty!
It is always close to your heart when you can eat from your own garden !
Unfortunately cat don't eat salad.
enjoy it !!
Keep on steemit!!
Agreed and thank you :)! Why can't you eat salads?
Personnaly I enjoy salad. Salad is part of my daily food intake. Wish to have a garden just like yours.
Sorry, I misread your first comment, I thought you said you couldn't eat salads haha, now I see it says cats don't eat them haha
I hope you can start a garden soon!
YUM! Looks so good and fresh :)
Oh it was tasty, I love fresh veggie salads! Thank you!
Such lovely photos of your fresh garden vegetables, fruits, and luscious herbs and kitty cat! I LOVE gardening and cats TOO! In another life one could say we "hold hands together" with our common interests!
Gardening is fun! I wish I had more time to take care of it, while I was gone the weeds took over haha
Incredible photography! Your salad looks so fresh and vibrant. I am able to grow herbs off my small apartment deck, but hope to have a more robust garden like yours one day!
Thank you! My garden is actually not that big at all compared to last year, I have 3 pepper plants and 2 tomato plants, a bunch of cucumbers and some herbs. I think you can grow tomatoes in big pots!
You don;t need to go to vegetable market you can eat vegetables which are grownup in your garden. That's sounds so cool.
Last year I had veggies until late October it was pretty cool, this time my garden needs a lot of tending because I was away, still it's nice to have some food growing in your back yard haha
try to grow up some organic veggies stay healthy forever. ;-)
These ARE organic!
that's great, make your garden bigger and sell them through online. That's a good way to make money too.
Good point @stefan! Do you have any experience selling produce online? I am not familiar with that sorta business. I used to sell knitted accessories I made a couple years ago though.
I actually have an ecommerce organic fruits and vegetables firm. I just started it few months ago. Hopefully i will make it large by the end of 2019.
Here is the link : https://www.indiamart.com/stefen-solutions/
I told Matt a few days ago I have missed you guys and notice the absence, asked him to say hi to you.
#ScowlyCat and #FartyCat
all about the gardening, peppers and the inner hippy there
LOL.
Tell Matt I said hi I guess LOL!!
Oh nice! Yeah we were away for quite a while haha!
He said yo to you!
Those veggies are looking green and healthy.and Lenorka looks angry 😂
Hahaha! Lenorka is actually a b! But also a sweetie pie :)
Love the food also the cat ;)
Thank you! Salads are good!
Great post good looking crop I enjoy growing myself normally tomatoes and chilli, cheers mike
Thanks! I actually do have some Thai chilis growing in a pot!
Welcome back. The D hasn't been the same without y'all. You probably heard a lot of y'all down there :) Here is a simple but yummy cucumber and onion dish my mom used to make and I still love...
This looks delicious! Thanks for sharing!
I did hear a lot of that down south, I usually say that myself when I visit haha
I like salad.
Me too :)
Awesome! I have tried to do this myself but it takes lots of patience. Follow me @arepagrilltruck soon to come some delicious recipes!
Yeah, gardens need some love and patience like many other things!
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YAY! :)
Nice cookie necklace.
But dont get your upvote......lol
It is okay, someone else upvoted it :D
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@kotturinn Such beautiful photos of such conscious food choices! So fresh and vibrant. Keep spreading love and awareness for healthy food choices through your artistic talents. Namaste :)
Thank you for your kind words @captainpearson! I love having a small garden to satisfy simple needs growing a little bit of veggies and some herbs. The ones we don't eat I dry and use in winter time, it's pretty cool. Namaste!
Upvoted and also resteemed :]
Thank you very kindly! :)
that's great
Thanks!
buen post
Thanks! :)
That looks sooooo yummy! I'm sad because I'm on my second week of the ketogenic diet and although I eat salads everyday, I can't have those tempting tomatoes! Wish I could lick my screen 😁
Hahaha! Well, they are super easy to grow, I didn't expect myself they wouldn't require much care when I first started a garden last year!
I love my apartment at the Jersey Shore, but I am about to give it up so that I can have a garden. Looking at your salad makes me crave a bit of land.
I know! Living in a house is nice because of being able to have a garden, but also a lot of work, like mowing the grass etc haha my husband's brother lives in an apartment and he grows some tomatoes in pots on his deck, it's pretty neat!
My sun angles are all wrong. Windows facing north and south. Sun is on the roof all day.
I try subtly to talk the wife into a house, she doesn't want the liability.
Oh, what a misfortune :(. Apartments have their advantages as well so I can't blame her! I just moved into a house a couple years ago when I got married, I like it!
I must confess, while I was seeing the mixed colors of those vegetables my mouth started watering. I love those ingredients. And that salad looks great. I hope Lenorka had tasted that salad too.
Thank you! I now gotta wait for more peppers to ripe to have another one haha.
Unfortunately, Lenorka didn't get to taste the salad, but I'm sure she would only like it if I topped it with some tuna haha
I laughed so hard when I saw the cat, thanks! :)
I'm glad it was entertaining :)
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Welcome back! The salad looks so good! I literally can taste the freshness of these veggies in my mouth! Another cute cat pic... although she kinda has an evil look in her eyes....
Hahaha she may look evil by she means we'll, I hope! Thank you :) I wish I planted more veggies this year though!
Lol!I'm sure she does. You can never have too many veggies. That's for sure.
Just wow. Having your own garden is a wonderful thing. I don't have a talent, but my wife would grow plants on solid rock even.
I tried to get some wheat and rye from our garden, but planted it to late. I wonder what it will become when I'm back.
Hopefully it grows well, I'd say crops do well without tending, maybe?
Let's hope so, that said I did start too late.
I can't wait to eat teh first veggies from my garden this summer, great pitcures! I will defiantely plant some sweet peppers good idea. Thanks for sharing the receipe.
Ok, I love it! And I'm in love with your garden. Upvote! ❤