Summer Waxing Green Corn Moon
Dinner with vegetables straight from the garden is a treat and can be a surprise. It was tonight. We had potatoes, new 
potatoes, dug just before cooking. They had a distinct flavor, a nutty earthy tone unfamiliar from the long since harvested potatoes typical of both home and restaurant cooking. This meal included our garlic, our kale and chard, the potatoes garnished with our flat parsley and a bowl of sugar snap peas as an appetizer.
Digging potatoes involved a spading fork to loosen the soil, then searching around under the earth for these lumpy treasures. They grow well in the sandy soil here in Andover.
(pic: potatoes before harvest)
Kate takes off for the Grand Teton’s tomorrow, a CME conference. BJ is also out there, playing in the Grand Teton music festival as she has for the last several years. The Tetons have an incredible beauty, the American Alps, a very young mountain range. She’s back on Wednesday, then we go to see a micro-surgeon who has perfected the technique for cervical vertebrae. He’ll evaluate Kate’s candidacy for that surgery.
Lots of weeding today and more tomorrow. A normal task in late July, early August.
