Sun Gold from back garden, volunteer mystery tomato in the front garden, growing wild all over the Rose shrubs. Both of these are completely delicious! #ediblelandscaping #tomatoes #garden #summer #delishytown

Tomato bread bagels for breakfast featuring 3 kinds of cherry tomatoes and basil from our garden, yum! #tomatoes #garden #summer #food #organicgardening

Jalapeño Souvlaki with Roasted Corn & Garbanzo Black Rice Pilaf

This was the delicious plate I made from the most recent box of Mystery ingredients sent to me by Master Chef and Plated. I love getting secret ingredients in the mail! They didn't post it on their tumblr, so I'm going to post it here. This was spicy, smokey and amazingly delicious. It was even delicious as leftovers, cold. Yum!

 The Mystery box contained green Garbanzo beans in their husks, skinless chicken breast on the bone, a can of pumpkin puree, fresh jalapeños, cocktail onions, grape tomatoes, black olives, chicken broth, baby corn on the cob and a souvenir lunch sack. All of the ingredients made perfect sense together except for the pumpkin, so I decided to ditch it. I knew exactly what I wanted, garlicky, lemony souvlaki, and pumpkin doesn't go with that flavor profile. Not to me anyway. 

Everything was drizzled prior to grilling with a lemony dressing consisting of fresh lemon juice, olive oil, ground coriander, dill, lots of crushed garlic and salt and pepper. Make sure to reserve some of the marinade to use as a dressing once everything is all cooked. This is easy, just cut everything up, marinate, thread the skewers and grill everything including the baby corn and garbanzos, which I did on a vegetable grill pan. The garbanzos on the grill are delicious.

I made two separate skewers, 1) chicken with jalapeño & onion, and 2) tomato, onion & jalapeño, because by the time the chicken cooks, the tomatoes will be falling apart into the grill. Put the meat skewers on the grill first because they take longer to cook. 

I made rice pilaf with black rice cooked in chicken stock, grilled garbanzo beans and baby corn. When I grill tomatoes I have to have rice with them, it's mandatory. Rice and grilled tomatoes are amazing together.

Enjoy your long holiday weekend everybody. Let me know if you try this, it's really good! 

Edible Landscape

I'm posting pics from my back yard, taken this morning. My veggies are looking great!

Beautiful Summertime

Mango Tangerine Yogurt Pop

Here's another low calorie treat. These yogurt pops taste so amazing! I think you'll love them. Use any combo of fruit and yogurt you can think of. If you're vegan, try soy yogurt or just make sorbet pops. Yum!

In a food processor, combine 1 small container plain, fat free, Greek style yogurt, 2 tblsp honey, 1/2 a mango. Pulse till the mango pieces are combined with the yogurt.

In a freeze pop mold, pour fresh tangerine juice halfway, add the yogurt fruit mixture and then top with a bit more of the juice. I like to swirl the 2 together so it looks pretty. But I take pictures of my food. If you don't take pictures of your food mix it all together any way you like. Freeze and enjoy!!