Check out the morning glories!

Morning glories are invasive, but the scene at the garden was gorgeous this morning with yellow cosmos sticking out from purple, blue, white, and pink cosmos! If you can't make it to the garden in the mornings, check this out!

-Kate

Fried Green Tomatoes and Pesto!

I wanted to share pictures of the delicious things I made with the garden this summer! Thanks to the garden, I made pesto and friend green tomatoes for the very first time! (Above: Making pesto.) A food processor would be ideal, but my blender did the job! It's just a combo of a lot basil, 1/2 cup of parm or so, some olive oil, a couple cloves of garlic, and pine nuts. I often was too stingy to buy pine nuts this summer and the pesto is still good. I read that walnuts are also an okay substitute but I'd prefer no nuts over walnuts in my pesto. Also, both basil and pesto is good stored frozen, and the pesto is best stored with a layer of olive oil on top. I noticed mine got a darker shade of green after it was stored in the refrigerator for a few weeks). Check out how yummy a simple pasta with pesto can be! (Below)

Series of tomato photos: salt and peppering the tomatoes! Then dipping in milk, flour, eggs, and bread crumbs! Frying up and then deciding to fry a few more things than just tomatoes.

-Kate