Urban Gardening Break - First Cuke!

Yay! Gotta take a break from the trip logging to celebrate the first cuke of the season - and what a ridiculously perfect one it is, too! Or at least it was until I ate half of it. Very delicious!

AND there's a pot of green tomato rice cooling on the stove. This was kind of an accident, I came back from the Baltic to find the cucumber vines running amok - there's a trellis they're supposed to climb but they decided it would be more fun to climb the tomatoes. That was a tangled mess to clear up, and in the process I snapped a tomato stem that had four very good-sized green tomatoes on it. S'alright, the chard failed completely for some reason this year but the tomatoes (which failed completely last year) are completely going to town and there are lots more on the way. The basil's coming up nicely, would I doom myself to blossom end rot if I start daydreaming about caprese salads? Anyways, the breakage happened weekend before I got sick, so I didn't get to cooking them when I planned, but the tomatoes did keep and tonight I made a fancy-schmancy New Yorkified version of my favorite classic Southern recipe - went to Dean and DeLuca for ingredients & so instead of garlic, there's garlic scapes, and instead of bacon there's Serrano ham, and then of course there's jasmine rice instead of regular 'cause I like jasmine rice and that's what I have around.

Came out delicious. Nice start to the Season of Eating Things I Grew Myself - hope it continues well!