My Garden, My Breakfast

So it's terribly hot and humid out and I think my garden is only thing that is enjoying it. I'm getting tomatoes, lettuce (manoa), flat leaf parsley and swiss chard. My beets not so good but I'm eating the greens. Waiting for my carrots. I just put in some scallions and will adding some thai basil, more lettuce seeds and beets seed soon.

As for my breakfast, I've been trying to cut down my carbs fro the last several months. I decided my breakfast this morning would be a salad with lettuce and swiss chard from my garden. Yum!

My breakfast salad with leftover salmon from dinner last night, red pepper, my homemade salsa  and harrisa and splash of balsamic dressing. Maybe next time I'll add a fried egg. My love of harrisa has been a slow rise but I'm definitely on bandwagon now. I love it in my salad.

Did I share last week's farmers market goodies.

4 white peaches for some white peach cupcakes [as soon as the heat goes away] and 3 round squash to be stuffed with ground chicken and today's harvest of swiss chard. I'll try and get some picture of the process. 

Oh yeah! WG bought more strawberries. Yes, 8 more lbs. The only thing I'm thinking of is ice cream at the moment. I just don't want to turn on the oven. I hope it ends soon.

From the cooking/baking front

I've been jamming like crazy. Very hard to keep up with the demands of the restaurant. I just made a batch of kiwi apple chia jam to try. Someone [who never check what we have at the restaurant and it's not me] bought an extra container of kiwi from costco and brought it home for us to eat. There would be no way to eat them all, on top of the pineapple, berries and grapes we had in the house. I adapted the recipe and added the chia seeds. The kiwi seeds are the black stuff in the jam and the chia seeds are the beige stuff. It has a nice taste, not too sweet. I used the food mill because I didn't read the recipe well, and didn't grate the but chopped the apples instead. I used the largest screen for the mill so it's still quite chunky.

I've also been trying to test our recipes that I've been clipping [I love evernote clipper]. Been reading about harissa a lot in the blogs that I follow. It's a North Africa hot red pepper paste. Got the harissa recipe from The Wednesday Chef and finally made up some harissa this weekend. I'm thinking of rice and beans with fried egg to go with the harissa. I'll let you know what I think and post a pic of what I made.