Fall Harvest

The leaves are turning many shades of yellow, red, and orange...the days are shorter...the nights are colder...we have had several morning frosts...and it is time to harvest the garden. On Saturday Steve and the kids dug the many hills of potatoes and harvested the rest of the garden that was still left from the summer. We usually have several hundred pounds of potatoes, but not this year. Steve said we might have 100 pounds...but we have many many bags of kale in the freezer! Guess what we will be adding to every dish this winter...not meat or potatoes, but kale!!

We also harvested alot of yellow squash this summer and we had a great crop of cabbage and cauliflower. Saturday evening we spent many hours in the kitchen washing and chopping the remaining vegetables to be put in the freezer.

As well as the potatoes, cabbage, yellow squash, and kale we also had plenty of broccoli, romanesco, zucchini, swiss chard, some tomatoes, and several herbs, parsley and cilantro. We found that we love fresh cilantro and enjoyed the flavor in many dishes this summer.

So our freezer is full of bags and bags of vegetables but not any meat...so guess we just might have to change our eating habits this winter...think we might be vegetarians! The fish and moose were hard to come by this summer and fall and for the first time in a long time we don't have any of either one! Guess we are going to have to get creative!