Happy Labor Day!

This is a cop-out post, but I wanted to show you a little of what came out of my garden this morning. It is hell of cornucopic. Going clockwise from the bottom: Purple Cherokee heirloom tomato, scarlet runner beans (can’t wait to turn those into feijoada), a giant zucchini that escaped my notice for a few days (ridged Italian variety whose name I forgot), yellow pear tomatoes, Pink Brandywine tomato, mutant Golden Bantam corn, Swiss chard (I have a yellow-stemmed plant that I didn’t pick), jalapeños, poblanos, baby pattypan squash, mature pattypan squash, and regular zucchini.

I need to get over my fear of frying and just tempura those squash blossoms for once and for all. I have so damn many. And I have that lovely slab of dill havarti that wants to be chunked and stuffed inside the tender corolla. The male flowers aren’t gonna do shit but turn to amber slime (they lack the requisite ovary for turning to fruit), so I may as well just pick those and let the rest of my squash mature.

I’ll get back to my regularly-scheduled programming tomorrow. I have lots of cooking to do.