Delicious!

It must be delicious, look at the claws digging in!

And he’d really appreciate me and the camera moving on so that he can finish his meal. 

Just in case that isn’t your cup o’ tea for a delicious something how about…this…

Sunshine, a kabocha type winter squash, is one of our absolute favorites.  Funny, there’s a connection between this picture and the header.  Last year we only got to eat a couple of these because the mice hollowed out about ten of them! 

It’s hard not to wish autumn would hurry up and get here so I can eat my lovely winter squashes, but summer took ever so long to get here that some of us here in the Puget Sound who usually love Autumn don’t really need it to come right away!  Besides, I have lots of zucchini to eat.

Here’s another delicious shot… or at least it will be sometime this winter.  We don’t preserve lots and lots of food here at the Farm, and we most likely won’t in the future, but there are some things that just need to be put up so that in the bleak dark days of winter we can feast upon the flavors of summer and return to warmer, brighter days at least for a moment.  Vitamin D is great, and it gets me through many a dark day, but sometimes you just need the flavor of the season rolling over your tongue. 

The reason we choose not to do a slew of preserving is that we like to keep our diet as seasonal as possible and the beauty of living here in the Puget Sound is that it is fairly easy to have a fresh local seasonal diet even in the dead of winter or the first break through of spring.  But I have to admit, even if I could raise all of our diet all of the days of the calendar so that we never had to put a single food into a jar or plastic freezer bag… there are still a few foods that I would still have to put up so that I could feel normal.  Green beans would be one, tomatoes, whole, cut or sauced would be another.  And berries, lots of berries in the freezer makes me a happy girl in the winter, at the beginning of winter in pies, lovely, hot from the oven, beautiful pies, and then later in last part of  winter and early spring in body fortifying smoothies or on top of my oatmeal.

Even when we accomplish all of our five year goal (on year two right now) particularly the part, “if we don’t grow it we don’t eat it,” for seventy-five percent of our diet and keeping it as seasonal as possible, there will still be those things we take care to preserve in the height of their season to enjoy when the memory of the seasons past are hard to recollect.  Those preserved tastes savored in the off seasons are too delicious to not attend to. 

Another thing to attend to that I forgot late last night while typing this… go see what the other challengers (on my side board) have for my pick of “Delicious” for the challenge this week.