Harvest dinner

A fantastic perk of having a garden is the ability to grow things. This summer we have enjoyed a host of berries. Strawberries ripened first, closely followed by raspberries. The cherry harvest was small but good for such a young tree. Next year will be even better. The blueberries are just ripening and red and blackcurrants are ready to enjoy. Soon we can start picking apples and there may even be plums.

An absolute favourite for me is harvesting things for dinner. Today we harvested the first potatoes for a lovely dinner with wild lamb from the west coast. It was really just a test to see how they turned out. They tasted lovely and bodes well for the rest of the patch.

This year we planted seeds for colorful carrots. And today was the first harvest. One yellow, one red and the usual carroty orange. They tasted great and I was rather surprised that the dark red carrot was actually orange insde!

I almost forgot to mention that we had tiramisu for dessert. No local ingredients involved.