A Simple Breakfast

I created this for breakfast yesterday, it was wonderful!

Light and good for you.

Asparagus Omelet

1/2 cup purple onion, finely diced

2 Tbsp. butter

2 cups sliced mushrooms

3 asparagus stalks, chopped

2 egg white, lightly beaten

salt & pepper to taste

fresh, grated parmesan cheese

corn tortillas

In medium pan sautee' onion in butter until softened,

add mushrooms, cook for 2-3 minutes

add asparagus cook an additional 2-3 minutes

pour beaten egg whites over vegetable mixture

season with salt and pepper and cook until

eggs are cooked throughly.

Remove from heat and sprinkle with cheese.

Serve in toasted corn tortillas, taco style

(we toast our tortillas in the toaster, it works great!)

Here Comes The Fun!

ARTICHOKES are ready to harvest! Can't wait for lunch today, with the Farmer and a little melted butter and lemon.
ASPARAGUS , another year into the process! Next year is the year for harvest. You need to wait three years before harvest. It has been fun to grow, it is beautiful but it is also a great temptation!

ZUCCHINI, there are flowers on the plants, about another week and we will be enjoying the first harvest. Yummy! We have several plant and will have enough to share. I will plant more seeds this week so that we can enjoy squash late into the season!

Stages of Summer

I came accross this book yesterday, and became quite intrigued by it. It is the journey of a family who moved from a large city, to a small community in an effort to become more connected to the earth. To eat what they grew, within the seasons of the plants and animals. It is basically how we live. We live out of our garden in the months we are able to and bottle the surlpus for use in winter months. It is an amazing way to live. There is comfort in being somewhat self sufficient or atleast knowing that if we had to be more so, we could.
Our community shares it harvest. One may have a surplus of sweet corn, another tomatoes, or another squash. All together we help to sustain one another. It is more than the food, it is unity of a community. This book, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" will make you think and quite possibly, it may make you want to change your way of living.

Simplicity

Simple is a good word for farm life. We need to "make do, or do without." Our lifestyle is simple, and our cooking is simple, typically whatever is in season is what we are eating. Unusual ingredients are not readily avaliable to us so once again simple is the word. Simple is not a bad thing...it is actually quite liberating. I hope you think so too!