Home-grown lettuce for a quick working lunch - Tuesday, 29th July 2014

Hi there, it's me, away from the garden for a few hours, and trying to get back to writing!   It's so hard, sitting down, pruning my mind, cultivating the words and phrases I'd like to use, whereas to be up and doing garden chores - watering and weeding, planting, tieing up plants and stakes to prevent growing stems from collapsing, hoeing, digging, raking.  It's all great pleasure and being outside, getting to grips with a whole range of different activities, just such engrossing work it's hardly work at all.

So - lunch today - a quick tuna salad lunch, with a very pretty green and red salad from my garden which, I'm afraid, I don't have a name for! Hmm. must do better next year....

And here's my work-a-day lunch -

Crunchy red and green lettuce, spring onions, yellow pepper  and tinned tuna - cheap, easy and good to eat!

Last night I harvested a huge bunch of perpetual spinach and a few leaves of rainbow chard, and we put together a very cheeky home version of  oeuf florentine, which is usually made with poached eggs on top of cheese sauce and gently cooked spinach.

We were too busy to make a sauce, even though it can be made in very short order, and we also used fried eggs, sighting these on top of the spinach, and adding a good grating of Parmesan cheese on top; we served this supper with butted toast -

slightly unorthodox but delicious and speedy!

And yesterday's lunch, a friend gave me Mozzarella with home-grown tomatoes, shredded Basil leaves with a dressing of olive oil and Balsamic vinegar - it was really good!  We mopped up the dressing with buttered, nutty bread and the meal was gone in a twinkling, with no time for photo-shots.  That lunch hit the spot exactly and I was soon out in the garden again, scraping away at her brick patio.

Ok that's all for now!  Happy eating and gardening, if you can; its great exercise and ultimately productive for the hungry gardener-chef!!!

Daisy