Happy Sunday!
I’ve been enjoying hanging out with you on Sundays this month! In July, Heather Gray will be back to hang out with you on Sundays. All this month I’ve also been enjoying the baskets from our CSA that started up the last week of May. It’s so delightful to get a big bundle of fresh veggies each week. It’s also been neat to have a chance to experiment with food that I wouldn’t necessarily buy on my own (swiss chard anyone? It’s not bad…but I’ve always been a little scared of it. I think probably because my mom grew up eating it and hated it, so she never made it. I honestly had never tried it until I had to use it in my most recent basket.) Are you enjoying any fruit or veggies that you can’t normally find when it isn’t summer?
These are the spring onions that we’ve gotten every week — they’re HUGE and so yummy.
Don’t forget that our July blab is coming up on July 5th! I’m looking forward to chatting new releases with Valerie Comer and you! 8:30 p.m Eastern — and if you haven’t subscribed to the July blab — please do!
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NEW RELEASES
June 2016
Whispers of Love, 12 Christian Romance novels by Sally Bradley, Valerie Comer, JoAnn Durgin, Autumn Macarthur, Carol Moncado, Staci Stallings, Marion Ueckermann, Kimberly Rae Jordan, Leah Atwood, Christina Coryell, Lesley Ann McDaniel, and Jan Thompson
In Love and War by Kimberly Rose Johnson, Miralee Ferrell, Trish Perry, and Debby Mayne
Small-Town Nanny (Rescue River) by Lee Tobin McClain
Operation Fireworks (Operation Romance 3) by Elizabeth Maddrey
Broken Freedom (Broken Holidays 3) by Ginger Solomon
Abide (Lewis Legacy 7) by JoAnn Durgin
July 2016
Secrets of Sunbeams (Urban Farm Fresh Romance 1) by Valerie Comer
Teapots & Tiaras (Love in Store 5) by Autumn Macarthur
August 2016
Small-Town Girl (Goose Harbor) by Jessica Keller
Butterflies on Breezes (Urban Farm Fresh Romance 2) by Valerie Comer
Elizabeth Maddrey is a semi-reformed computer geek and homeschooling mother of two who lives in the suburbs of Washington D.C. When she isn’t writing, Elizabeth is a voracious consumer of books. She loves to write about Christians who struggle through their lives, dealing with sin and receiving God’s grace on their way to their own romantic happily ever after.
Hi:) Hmm, it is winter here, we are getting lots of varieties of potatoes and apples. We have just picked lots of limes and lemons from our trees, as the frosts are getting heavier- hubby made lemon butter with them, YUM!
Limes and lemons — yum! We can’t grow those where I am at all, so I’m always a little jealous of people who live where they thrive.
I don’t think I even know what swiss chard is. Lol! I love swiss cheese though! :)
I love fresh fruit and veggies in the summer, and I would love to have a huge garden, but we simply don’t have time to take care of a garden right now. We grow tomatoes and strawberries, and we have several local farm markets, so that does the job for now.
Those onions look amazing! :)
Hope you have a great week!
Swiss chard is kind of like kale. But yeah…I only knew cause my mom complained about it – probably her strongest food aversion from childhood. :)
I can’t grow anything–I have a massive black thumb. So farmers markets etc are going to have to suffice.
In SW Michigan for the last month we have enjoyed sweet strawberries. Presently sweet cherries are being picked. According to the article “Twenty Things You Might Not Have Known About Michigan Agriculture”
Posted on March 15, 2016 (agricultural day) by Pure Michigan, Michigan is number #1 in the nation for the production of blueberries, which will be ready next week. Then in August we harvest peaches (Michigan is #8 in the nation for peaches). In late September we enjoy many varieties of Apples, our favorite being honey crisp. We are also fortunate to have many farmers markets with not only fresh fruit but a variety of vegetables. While at the grocery store one can buy many of these fruits and vegetables imported from California or Florida, our local produce tastes sweeter and more savory.
They said we’d be getting blueberries this week in our baskets. I hope so!
Love peaches — didn’t know they grew them in Michigan!
Wonder if they are Michigan blueberries.? Are you told where the items in your baskets are grown?
They’re all on a local farm. We can go and pick our own each week if we want.
We’re love the fresh fruits and vegi’s from our garden, trees, and bushes, as well. We are overrun this year with squash, zucchini, and cucumbers. We also have a fair amount of peaches, though they’re on the small side. We’ve made a couple of batches of peach cobbler with them.
I’ve never had swiss chard. Like you, it looks daunting, though my mom didn’t have an aversion to it. I think of it as an uppity food–don’t know why. LOL
Uppity :) that would make my mom laugh, they ate so much because they were poor and it was easy to grow.
I’m jealous of your cobblers. But not the squash.
We just caught the last of the local strawberry crop, and cherries just started. This is about three weeks early, likely because we had a week of July-style hot weather in April!
I love Swiss Chard and grow it nearly every year. I wilt it for a few minutes in boiling water and serve with salt, pepper, and butter. My husband likes a sprinkle of vinegar, but I don’t. It can also be chopped up and used in omelets, scrambled eggs, and it is really yummy in an Olive Garden style Tuscan soup.
Oh those all sound like yummy ways to do chard. If we get more I’ll try them.
We get lots of our fresh fruit and vegetables from farmer markets.We don’t have our own garden anymore.
I’ve given up on trying to garden. I don’t know why I’m so unsuccessful at it. But it’s just sad whe I try.
We usually grow a some peas and I have some strawberry plants and a Gala apple tree. My sister always give me some heirloom tomato plants that she starts. We’ve tried some pretty crazy kinds of tomatoes–green with red stripes, orange, yellow, white, purple, pink. This year I ended up with Italian Red, Cosmos, Pineapple (a large yellow tomato), and Sungold, which is my personal favorite. They are small, orange tomatoes that are sweet and have lower acid content. They are about the size of a cherry tomato. They are so yummy right off the vine. We don’t usually grow anything else, but we love the local produce.
Thanks, Elizabeth, for the copy of Operation Fireworks! It’s always fun to win books, and I’m looking forward to reading it.
Oh those tomatoes sound yummy. And you’re welcome–hope you enjoy it.
We planted BlackBerry bushes a few years ago and it’s picking time at the end of May and beginning of June.They are big and juicy and makes delicious jelly. Also, there is nothing like fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and green tomatoes for frying!!we love all the fresh begs. and fruits.
Oh yummy.
Vegetables
Yum!