Harvest Monday August 5, 2024

It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. Tomatoes are playing a starring role in our harvests lately, and ones of all shapes, sizes and colors are coming in from the garden. We’ve been enjoying them every way we can, and as often as possible since tomato season never lasts long enough for me.

tomatoes with cucumber

tomato harvest

Chef’s Choice Purple tomato

We sliced up one of the Chef’s Choice Purple tomatoes for use on sandwiches, and the taste was great – a nice blend of acid and sweet that I really like.

sliced Chef’s Choice Purple tomato

I’ve been slow roasting some of the smaller fruited ones. I did one sheet pan last week, and this batch went into the freezer for later use. I also dehydrated a few, which is another of my favorite ways to use these smaller ones when we have lots of them.

Slow-Roasted Tomatoes

In non-tomato news, I harvested the first sweet peppers last week, Cornito Giallo and Cornito Rosso, along with a couple more small Tromboncino squashes. I don’t think it will be a great year for peppers overall, since I think they are struggling with our rainy, wet conditions more than the other veggies. These first ones were much appreciated though! I used one of the yellow ones in a batch of sheet pan ratatouille, along with our eggplant, tomatoes, onion and a Tromboncino squash. I added some fresh basil at the end, and this is one of my favorite treatment when the summer veggies are plentiful. We sometimes serve it over pasta or polenta, but I think it is also quite tasty on its own.

first sweet peppers

ratatouille with chicken

I also got a couple more of the acorn squashes, one each of Goldilocks and Starry Night. All the bush squashes are about done for, but they’ve been great performers this year and we have had plenty to eat. I’ve been growing the pinkish-purple skinned Dancer eggplant for years now, and it always does well for me here.

squash and eggplant

Dancer eggplant

I got a few of the test varieties of tomatoes late last week, a few of the Hot Streak and Harvest Moon varieties along with two of the Annina eggplants. I’ll let you know what we think of the tomatoes once we get a good taste of them.

tomatoes and eggplant

I did find time to bake a loaf of my Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread last week. It makes a great bread for BLT’s, which are likely to be on the menu periodically now that tomato season is here.

Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to share, add your name and blog link to Mr Linky below. And please check out what everyone is harvesting!




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