Food and/or cooking may not seem to be directly related to gardening, but we do a lot of cooking here; using produce from the garden or the farmers market and eggs from our flock, so there is some relationship there. I'm not going to turn this into a cooking blog, but I think it's nice to occasionally celebrate the fruits of our gardening labors.
For the Fourth, we, like millions of other people, grilled out. Nothing super fancy, just barbecued chicken with homemade barbecue sauce. Secret BBQ sauce ingredient? Dr. Pepper. Nice amount of sweetness and acidity. Looks pretty good, eh?
Just look at those grill marks...
There were some good sides as well: Smoked trout potato salad, broccoli salad and grilled corn on the cob.
To minimize a preponderance of food related posts, I'll stick tonight's meal in here as well. Fried green tomato BLT with cheesy grits and broccoli. The tomatoes were home grown and the broccoli came from the farmers market.
The sandwich was sublime. Toasted sourdough, homemade remoulade, crispy bacon, cold lettuce, green tomatoes dipped in buttermilk and cornmeal and a slice of fresh, ripe tomato. I'm sweating bacon, and I mean that in a good way.
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