Crock Pot Lasagne with today's garden harvest

The second day of summer and the sun finally showed up today. I guess she likes to be fashionably late.

today's harvest

The babe and I made it out to the garden and got quite a bit accomplished. Everything is looking fairly happy. I pulled a lot of spinach and made space for a new planting of cilantro, parsley and basil. I chomped on some sugar snap peas (I did not plant nearly enough, but plan to make up for it in the fall). I thinned my newest planting of beets and added the baby beet sprouts (spindly roots and all) to my bag of salad greens.

I used the crock pot to make a lasagne with what I could glean from the garden. You can find the basic method at Real Food NW here. I am not very good at doing what I am told, so I never follow recipes exactly. I left out the meat. I chopped about 8 cups of greens (kale, orache and spinach) in the Cuisinart, along with bit of each of my fresh herbs: basil, rosemary, sage, thyme, and oregano. I shredded the two little carrots my garden neighbor gave me, two of the onions I pulled from my plot, and two baby zucchini from PCC. I also hand rolled fresh noodles for the lasagne, because I didn't want to go to the store, and its cheaper that way. It was very very good. Now that I am thinking of it, I'm going to go eat seconds.

Here is a peak at some of the fabric I have collected this week for my next food inspired quilt. Anyone have any similar prints? I'll trade you for something from my stash...