Wednesday night we picked up our farm share in the evening, and I didn’t have anything planned for dinner, so we winged it.  We have been eating Food for Life gluten free, dairy free, egg free breads that you can find in the frozen section of Whole Foods and other stores.  It’s actually not bad, especially if you toast it, and I have been keeping a loaf in the freezer for when we run out of the homemade variety.

Our crop share Wednesday night included chard, tomatoes, corn on the cob, peppers, cucumbers, squash, peaches, and plums.  We have eaten a lot of chard this year, and Jeremy really doesn’t care for it at all, so every time we get it we have to figure out what to do with the chard.

My friend Daphne, recommended just sauteing some garlic in olive oil with the chard and then adding some red pepper.   I did that plus added some onion and a bit of cider vinegar at the end.  I thought maybe if I turned the chard into more of a bruschetta Jeremy would eat it, so we had the chard on top of toast, topped with a couple of leaves of basil, and a tomato, then drizzled just a bit of balsamic vinegar on it.

Success!  Jake only ate a tomato off of his, but Jeremy ate his pieces and even went back for the leftover chard (although did not finish that).  I think this would be really good if it had a piece of cheese melted on top.

We also grilled two corn on the cobs each for Jeremy and I, Jake ate a little off of mine…  or at least ate the fake butter off the corn kernels.

Some of our corn was eaten by worms and caterpillars, we opened one up and a giant caterpillar was crawling around and had eaten almost half of a cob!  We’ve been grilling our corn directly on the grill, and turning it every few minutes when some of the kernels are browning.  It is really tasty like this, especially if you grill it the day you get it, it’s nice and sweet.

We love eating outside in our backyard now, thanks mostly to the people who lived here before us, who were real gardeners.  We have a lot of beautiful flowers, and about 10 tomato plants they left for us.

They really planned flowers for everyone season too.  We have just had our asters bloom.  I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen these flowers before, but they are beautiful.  They almost look fake, they are so colorful and candy-like.

I looked up asters online, and apparently they are a fall flower that is a perennial so we get to look forward to these every year!

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