French beans, Runner beans and Mange tout - Tuesday, 12th August 2014

His finished plate of food - with my garlic-oil infused runner beans - so very delicious!

It's harvest time for my little vegetable garden and we're eating beautiful beans and mange tout and spinach and rainbow chard.

Not all at once, of course, but certainly linked!

Next year, here's hoping, I shall grow carrots, many more herbs, courgettes and marrows and berries for breakfast, whose name I can't remember !

Gardening is not only producing yummy veggies to eat, but the fresh air and exercise is also producing whoops of joy on a daily basis - um aha!  It's quite simple really - I'm taking in great quantities of fresh air, lovely cold water to quench my thirst and heaps of warm to hot sunshine: the net result of which means my appetite is being lessened!  Wow!  T-da!!!

So, small meals are the thing to make, do and eat.  Even when the dear SO cooks, and believe me he cooks good,  really good food but - omg - way too much food, like food is going out of fashion for ever, y'know what I mean???

So he cooks, serves up, calls me to the kitchen, where I set about removing some items from my plate!  I'm a good girl, I am, brought up to eat all my greens and every scrap of food set before me.  You might have thought by the time I got to be a grandmother, I would have insisted on knowing how much food I wanted to eat, but no.  I've had a raving appetite for years now, really I have, so imagine my delight to discover that now I do know how much food its good for me to consume!  I'm even able not to feel guilty for leaving food scraps when I become too full.

However, my thought process tells me it's better to have less on ones plate, for the simple reason you can, if you truly must, return to the kitchen for second helpings if you're starving, or just plan greedy!

Take a look at my green harvest - doesn't it look good?  Don't forget to come back for more harvestings and cooking...

my first runner bean harvest - cooked to perfection, then tossed in olive oil and garlic infusion!!!



As you may notice, his meal was enormous but I was extremely hungry. so I did eat every morsel.  It was good but, omg, was I more than replete, if you know what I mean!!!

Happy eating, cooking and gardening!!!

Daisy