From the garden of course…
A friend questioned me the other day about why I so seldom steamed vegetables. And the answer is:
I don’t know.
Habit I suppose. I’ll cook up vegetables in a bit of olive oil and/or butter, some minced garlic or garlic salt, some herbs, some white wine and/or chicken broth or vegetable broth. But I rarely steam. So tonight I steamed.
The vegetable combination was based purely on what’s in the garden right now. I had tried and tried to get green beans growing back in the spring and the dang snails ate or birds ate everything that popped its head out of the ground, so I gave up. I had built cute little tepees out of garden poles by putting them in the ground in a triangular shape, then tying the tops together about 8 inches from the top. There they sat, a testament to my green bean (and pea) failure this year until I noticed a green bean plant climbing one a while back, having evidently snuck past the birds. I let it go, convinced I’d never see beans because of the heat at this point. But I’ve now harvested three dinners worth of beans off that plant. This weekend, in fact, I planted more green beans around the other tepees and we shall see what happens. Actually, they were rainbow colored beans, rather than purely green. Youngest was with me at the nursery and we have rainbow colored everything! (Radishes, string beans, bulbs…)
So I steamed the beans and yellow squash but then they looked so plain sitting there. I couldn’t resist. I drained the pot and threw the vegetables back in with a bit of butter and garlic salt. They were delicious! I have a bit leftover which will find its way into the soup I’ll be making sometime this week.
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