Ebony's Pearls

Today's lunch was almost entirely from harvested goodies - yellow crookneck squash, tomatoes, baby bell peppers, radishes, lettuces, teeny baby carrots all on the grill with storebought potatoes, since last year's harvest is long gone and this year's harvest isn't ready, and a grilled chicken.

Dessert was fresh harvested strawberries.

Except for the potatoes and the chicken, it all came fresh from my gardens this morning.

It's a pity we can't raise our own chickens here. Not only is it against the zoning regulations, but my youngest son's dogs would eat them. They will eat practically anything - toads, possums, gophers, blue jays, turtles, mockingbirds, bunnies, ducks...if it enters our yard and looks yummy to them, they will eat it. Both were strays that grew up hunting their food and they still prefer to do that. Kibble and tablescraps are just snacks and "starvation" food, when nothing strays into our yard to feed them.

So, as long as those dogs are back there, I'm limited not just by zoning laws, but by doggie tummies.

I could probably raise rabbits for meat, but I can't get eggs from bunnies, no matter what Cadbury's says.