Meanwhile Back at the Farm...

It's favas, favas, and more favas! We had a bumper crop of favas. Here Catherine is shelling while Rick plays golf on his iPad. Oddly enough, I remember a while ago when someone hassled me for playing on my notebook computer at the farm.... I'm glad we've all come to our senses. Farming + gaming = fun!

Nathan came over to help. He said, "I'll shell all these!" 

And he set in with a will. There were a lot to shell. 

What is sometimes called a %$#@-load. Seriously, this is probably 25-30 pounds of shelled favas.

This is ANOTHER bunch. I boiled and peeled and boiled and peeled. I brought some of the peeling work to the farm. Catherine was a fava harvesting champ. She picked and shelled and peeled like crazy. 

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What We're Eating

When confronted with a gazillion favas, Nathan made soup. Lots and lots of soup. I can't believe I didn't take any pictures, but it was probably because we were all too busy eating. Nathan fed the whole farm twice. And speaking of twice, I think every single person went back for seconds. I'll sheepishly admit to fourths. Damn good stuff! He used the favas of course, plus our homegrown onions and garlic. I brought him a ham hock for the first batch, but the meatfree version was just as good. We told him we didn't expect him to feed us all every day... that every OTHER day would be fine.

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We've also harvested our first tomato, on May 23rd. Now, it's a Sungold, so it doesn't really count, but still... Buddy ate the first one. Rick and I shared the second one.

We're also getting the last of the cherries. Here Rick climbs up and picks the topmost bits. After we ate as many as we could, I took the rest home and made mini cherry pies in phyllo cups. Those frozen phyllo shells are great for making a quick snack, and much easier than trying to cut and serve a regular pie. I didn't think to take pix of that either, but folks ate it right up.

Back at my house, I picked all my onions, because the pumpkins are already starting to overrun that space. 

Here I am showing them off. Do these shoes make me look dumpy? lol...

This beauty is from the farm. It's one of the Hamburger Reds, and it's huge! It would take a pretty big hamburger to hold up to a slice of that big boy.