Check out this crazy quad-carrot! Or... turd-carrot. Maybe wiener carrot?

Harvest Bouquet

I let a lot of the broccoli flower for two reasons. 1) I have plenty and it still keeps producing more and more, and 2) the yellow flowers look nice. So I picked all the blooming broccoli flowers as well as the purple mint flowers and made a bouquet. Sorta cool...

Huge Batch of Garden Spaghetti Sauce

I just used 50 tomatoes from my garden to make a huge pot of spaghetti sauce! I pulled up my tiny little red onions that I grew -- none larger than a golf ball -- and used them as well. I also used fresh oregano and basil from the garden. I bought a couple pounds of local, grass-fed ground beef at the Phipps Farmers Market and included that as well. 

• 1 medium to large red onion
• a dozen cloves of garlic
• 8 Tablespoons of olive oil

• about 50 tiny tomatoes and 2 or 3 small ones, diced
• 5 cans tomato paste
• 5 cans of water
• 1/2 to 1 Cup sugar
• 10-20 leaves of fresh basil
• 5-10 6 inch stems of fresh oregano 

• 2 pounds of grass-fed ground beef

1. Cook first three ingredients (oil, onion, garlic) for about 5 minutes and add to large pot.
2. Add diced tomatoes, tomato paste, water, sugar, and some of the herbs. Simmer over low heat for 2-3 hours total.
3. Brown ground beef and add to the pot.
4. Add more herbs throughout cooking process.

I got those 3 black cherry tomatoes on the left from Tricia's garden
BEFORE I got chumped (not recently).