One of my favorite things during spring & summer is planting and harvesting our vegetable garden!  Even though it’s pretty small…over the years we’ve had a lot of fun experimenting with new things and enjoying our tried and true favorites!  There’s nothing quite like savoring a dish with veggies you actually picked that very day!  And since we started planting we’ve always tried to make the vegetable garden something our boys could be involved with.  When they were little it was so much easier to get them to try new veggies…especially when they chose what to plant and helped it to grow!  And to this day, we all still take part in choosing what we’ll be planting–and picking–or digging up!  One of our all-time favorites that we plant every year is potatoes!  Our family preference is the red potato…and it always amazes me how they grow!  I can’t get over that you can take some chopped up sprouted spuds, bury them–and they turn into mounds of beautiful potatoes that almost burst from the soil!  Professional gardeners we’re not…but after a few years of potato planting we have cultivated some pretty nice crops!  Unfortunately some of our other plantings weren’t as prolific this year…but the season must have been right for potatoes…or maybe we do actually know what we’re doing after all!  They never go to waste ’cause we all LOVE eating them!  Mashed, baked, in soup or stew, fried, hashed, or waffled…you name it, my family would probably like it!  But our ultimate favorite…simply roasted!  it seemed a bit early this year but our potatoes were practically screaming to come out of the ground…so we did a bit of digging and then went directly to the kitchen and roasted up some tasty taters!

from the garden to the table…