Hi All,
When I was growing up, we took great pride in how much of the food served for dinner was grown in our garden. I was raised organic and vegetarian, and we ate well. Dad would pull the generously-topped pizza from the oven and announce, "I grew everything but the cheese and the yeast!" And yes, that year we grew wheat, and he ground the flour himself.
So here's the challenge: tell us what you had for dinner (or breakfast, or lunch), and how much of it you grew yourself. It'd be nice if you provided the recipe, but I admit that I don't use precise recipes (my mother-in-law still curses me for that), so a general idea is fine, too. Also, tell us what ingredients you produced, and what was purchased. I'll go first, and it will be soooo easy to best this one as far as producing it yourself since my tanks are still mostly hypothetical, and most of you are heading for summer:
We had tilapia in crushed tomato with salad and mashed sweet potato for 2 adults and 2 kids.
- 3/4 pound (1/3kg) Tilapia (store)
- 1 quart (1 liter) diced canned tomatoes (dirt garden, home-canned)
- 1 onion (dirt garden)
- Tandoori seasoning to taste (store)
- olive oil (store)
Chop and saute the onion in olive oil in a deep frying pan, add tomatoes and all liquid, bring to simmer and reduce. Add tandoori seasoning to taste. In the last 10-15 minutes, add tilapia fillets and cover with tomatoes. Simmer until done.
- salad greens (store)
- cucumber (store)
- carrot (store)
- cherry tomatoes (store)
-dressing
You know how to make a salad. (Remember, we're late Fall now here. Spring or summer, I'd have grown everything but the dressing.)
- sweet potatoes (dirt garden)
- apple sauce (yard, home-canned)
- butter and salt to taste (store)
Peel and cut sweet potatoes, boil until done. Mash lightly. Add a few large spoonfulls of applesauce, plus butter and salt to taste.
--Janet.
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3100L fish tank 
) so it's cool to actually see it happening. A freak hail storm last week wiped out 95% of my vegie garden so I'm madly planting it up again and spending way too much time reading the forum and day dreaming about fish... lol
I'm building him an AP system as payback. LOL