summer snippets

1 // the pears are in at my mom's house!

 2 // a very colorful week at muth family farm's organic csa.

 3 // matthew kenney's purslane salad with baked beans and tomato. kenney says that purslane is the only plant source of b12! (my mom heard that broccoli sprouts also contain b12). purslane (aka pigweed) is a wild edible that grows like crazy around here.

 4 // a delicious lunch with chickpea patty pita and squishy sweet figs from a local lady selling her figs via craigslist. we had a nice amount of smaller figs this year from our young tree. 

5 // pretty flowers seen in the sky while walking with bub and ev.

6 // my friend missy's sweet baby abbey. we spent some fun summer days swimming at beautiful lake kandle.

7 // a small harvest from the community garden.

8 // quinoa with veggies

9 // sunflower

10 // spicy garden salsa

11 // savory summer squash pancakes (made these two nights in a row!)

12 // moth sipping on some zinnia

13 // one of our summer favorites - grilled zucchini, eggplant and bell pepper over bush's vegetarian baked beans. so yummy and hearty, and pretty easy to make. just grill veggies/heat beans.

14 // vanilla sunflower

15 // kati on the deck rail. she goes outside sans harness now. there's no stopping her.

16 // garden green beans and edamame. most of my edamame plants didn't grow this year, but i found a few survived in the shade of some sunflower and tomato plants.  

my dad's birthday was yesterday. happy birthday papa bear!

have a great weekend everyone. savor the summer goodness!=)