Garden Madness, Part the Sixth

The Garden Madness entries may be coming to a close soon, since pretty much everything is in bloom or has already bloomed. The vegetable patch is going strong -- I pulled three cucumbers, 12 cherry tomatoes, and a pile of sugar snap peas out of it today. There are also a number of large green tomatoes I expect to be ripe within a couple of weeks.

The tomatoes and cucumbers went into tonight's dinner, panzanella. Almost everything in the panzanella was locally grown or made: my Italian and African blue basil, the extra tomato grown in Hopkinton, the CSA scallions, fresh mozzarella from Vermont, and bread from the bakery just down the street from where one of my business partners lives. The only non-local ingredient (other than the olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper) was some pancetta, because virtually everything tastes better with bacon.


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