Make good use of your garden bounty this year with these easy summer recipes from the garden.
Despite its nagging demands for water and protection from pests, your backyard garden is your biggest resource all summer long. Not only does it provide you with the freshest, best-tasting varieties of vegetables and herbs, it also saves you money and delivers better food than you could get in any restaurant. However, if you’re a harried gardener, like so many of us are, you find yourself stumped at dinner time by how best to use that harvest basket full of freshness.
Year after year, the National Gardening Association surveys members for the most popular homegrown vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet corn, summer squash, onions, and sweet and hot peppers are always on the list. From salads and salsas, to main dishes and dessert, relish your backyard abundance with these simple garden-fresh recipes. To avoid the weekly meal rush, double any recipe, and enjoy leftovers the next day.
Summer Recipes From the Garden
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Karen Keb is the co-author (as Karen K. Will) of Plowing With Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions with her husband, Oscar H. Will III. Check out her rural lifestyle blog at My Home Farm.
