Garden Bounty

We returned from our Maya Riviera vacation last night and immediately went out to the garden to see what was new in the last seven days.  We were thrilled to discover the number of golden cherry tomatoes ready to eat, the extraordinary growth of the tomato plants, and the crazy number of beans ready for picking.

So today we had our first garden meal, well mostly garden anyway.

I picked, red and yellow beets, yellow wax beans, and red and golden tomatoes to put in a salad.

It just looked so pretty sitting in the colander out in the garden I had to take a picture.

The salad turned out to be really yummy, the golden cherry tomatoes, Gingers Golden Delicious, are so tender and sweet.  The small red tomatoes are the "Stupice", the heirloom tomato from Czechoslovakia, that has the huge potato leaf, and they have an amazing flavor.

I also steamed some Black Pencil Pod Wax Beans to add to the salad, boy were they yummy and sweet also.

The beets were fabulous, I boiled those in a little salt water to get them tender and was able to peel the skins right off.  We not only ate the beets, but also the leaves from the beets in our salad, which added a nice tangy flavor to the rest of the romaine lettuce.

All in all a great first meal from the bounty of our garden.