We had a nice weekend, enjoying our garden and getting into the pool a few times.

On Saturday we hit up the farmers’ market in Downtown Midland, and then we hit up another one a bit later.  Both had great produce, however the second one had a bit more to choose from.

While there we picked up some okra, cucumbers, a watermelon and some garlic.  All for a super low price and everything was fresh as can be.  We were very happy.  We have yet to harvest any okra or cucumbers… so in the meantime, we figured we would help out a local grower.

So with fresh okra, we decided to harvest a squash to accompany it and Shala also put on a pot of beans. 

 

So for dinner on Saturday, we had the following classic southern meal…

Grilled Pork Loin

Fried Okra

Fried Squash

Red Beans

Cornbread

Fresh Cucumbers

How is that for some good stuff?  It had been a long time since we had ate anything listed above, so it was awesome and not to mention fresh as can be.

We were very happy with the squash, and good thing… because we have already pulled another and have about a million setting as we speak.  Anyone need squash?!?!? haha  Just say the word.

Our okra has started to bloom and produce pods, so we should actually have fresh okra soon as well.  That is cool, since we had almost given up on it after the dog trampled it and we did our best to kill it ourselves.

I know a lot of you guys are already harvesting daily tons of fresh veggies, but we are a tad bit behind.  Until we are able to do so… we figure we will help out local growers and eat great veggies.  If you do not know where to find a local grower in your area, check out this link: Local Harvest (thanks Tim)

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We were looking at pictures this past weekend on our Flickr account (feel free to check it out if you have a minute, be our friend if you are a Flickr-er as well), and we couldn’t believe how much things have grown in the past couple months.  So we tried to replicate the pictures we had taken a month ago so you could see it like we see it.

So here is the picture of our garden in the middle of May…

Now you can see the stuff at the far end, on the right… its our potatoes, they are long gone.  Harvested.  Look at the tiny peppers on the right, and honestly some of the plants on the left have died.  I don’t know which ones, since we killed a lot of them haha.

Here is the picture from this past weekend.

Pretty cool to see it grow this much in two months.  You can see on the right those same lil sprigs of pepper plants have grown into small plants now, and they are producing peppers now.  On the left, you can see the okra, bell & banana peppers and tomatoes flanking the peppers on each side.  The tomatoes are about 3.5 ft. tall, and producing tomatoes.

P.S. – Saw this over at Mama’s Losin’ It – and wanted to share with our folks as well.  If you have time and want to help a fellow blogger out, head over to Friends of George and buy a cookbook for a dollar.

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I saw an article this morning coming out of Russia, where they built the biggest “BBQ” stretching 335 ft.  Now I hate when the term BBQ is thrown around like it normally is…  As this would be a BBQ Pit or a Grill… not a BBQ.  Geeeeeeeeeez.

Get it right.

But anyhow, I wouldn’t say this was the best BBQ by any means… as they basically stuck a bunch of sausage on it and called it BBQ.

Not cool.

Who barbeques only sausage… wait… didn’t I do that this weekend?  hehe – I didn’t BBQ though, I grilled.  THERE IS A DIFFERENCE PEOPLE!

Anyhow, it did get into the record books – so congrats to them, always funny to read something about BBQ on the front page of a major site… at least it is for me.

The Meatiest Feat – Russian 335 ft. BBQ Breaks Record

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