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Monday, January 30, 2012

When having a Garden is Great

So this weekend I was cooking the family an Italian Vegetable Stew. It called for Swiss Chard; of which I had none and that isn't a popular item at local grocery stores either. So I decided that I would use spinach instead. I walked over to the freezer and panic soon followed. I didn't have any more frozen spinach! What to do? What to do? Do I exclude it? Run to the store and grab some?

WAIT. I've got some growing in the garden. I run out to the garden and a few minutes later; fresh, cleaned spinach is added to the stew. This is one of those times when.....Having a Garden is Great!


The Zucchini was garden grown as well
Check out more reason's why Having a Garden is Great over at Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday.

11 comments:

  1. kitsapFG1/30/12, 8:12 AM

    That is indeed why having a garden is great. :D The fresher the ingredients the better the end result of any recipe. I bet the stew was delicious.

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  2. Bee Girl1/30/12, 8:32 AM

    Yay for gardens! There really is nothing like fresh spinach (or fresh anything, for that matter) to brighten up a recipe :-) Congrats!

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  3. Daphne Gould1/30/12, 8:42 AM

    I agree. Having a garden is great. I was making a recipe that called for fresh sage this morning. So I ran outside (brrrr) and grabbed some sage.

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  4. becky30861/30/12, 9:16 AM

    Yup, it is always nice to have a garden. The stew looks great!

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  5. Barbie~1/30/12, 2:40 PM

    WAHOOO! Love it when it works out so well! :-D Looks GREAT btw

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  6. Norma Chang1/30/12, 6:43 PM

    A garden is great anytime but we appreciate it even more at times like these. Yummy looking stew.

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  7. Stoney Acres1/30/12, 8:11 PM

    Nothing better than being able to fill a soup pot with fresh veggies from the garden. The soup looks great, I would love to see the recipe some time!!

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  8. Jennie1/30/12, 9:54 PM

    It so nice to be able to walk out and grab what you need...right? I would love the recipe also.

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  9. Robin1/31/12, 6:30 AM

    Us gardeners are so blessed to be able to run outside and harvest some fresh real food to cook! The soup looks wonderful!

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  10. Mary Hysong2/1/12, 6:39 AM

    Having a garden is also really great when you walk around the grocery store thinking, I have some of that at home; Have that at home; the ones in the garden will be ready next week..... ;-)

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  11. Lynns Urban Garden Diary2/1/12, 4:52 PM

    How awesome that you had the right ingredient growing! :) Looks good.

    Lynn

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