Vegetarian Sundays: Fresh Chilean Summer Salad

 

A few weeks back I mentioned I would share my super easy recipe for Chilean Summer Salad. Well, with summer almost gone I thought it was high time I share that recipe while the tomatoes are still tender and the onions sweet.

Ingredients:

1 LB Tomatoes (I like Heirloom Varieties)

1 Whole Yellow Onion

1 Cu Hot, Boiling Water

1/4 Cup Olive Oil

Salt to Taste

Peel your onion

 

 Slice your onion

 Place all of your onion in a bowl and cover with boiling hot water

Cover with a towel and let stand for 10-15 minutes. You are lightly blanching the onion so all of that onion-i-ness tones down, but you maintain the crispness.

 

Slice your tomatoes and place a large bowl

Drain your onions and rinse with cool water

Add onions to your tomatoes in the bowl

 Add  the olive oil and salt to taste

 Stir well until all ingredients are mixed. Place in the refrigerator until chilled. Serve as a side to tacos, rice and beans or any other deliciousness you can think of!

10 Really Good Things Right Now

1. Job(s) Satisfaction
2. Lunch dates in the City
3.Painting The Sidewalk (more on this next week!)
4. More Tomatoes!
5. Playing With Chalk
6. The Laundry is ALL DONE!...for now.
7. Reading: The Professor's House
8. Walks with Friends
9. E Discovers Blackberries
10. Learning that it's OK to put some things off until tomorrow.

10 Really Good Things Right Now

Our first tomatoes. Never mind the weird growths. They were still tasty.

1. Tomatoes!!!
2. Looking forward to the Peace & Love Swap on Saturday- Free baby clothing!!!
3. So much voting love
4. Queen of the Sun
5. Mothers and Fathers Visiting
6.Moose Tracks Ice cream
7. Getting into a really good book
8. Sense of relief as I set aside things to sell, giveaway, and throw away
9. Playing out in the garden every day
10. Burrito Lunch With Sisters

So, I do find it odd that several of the items that made it to my top-10 list this week are food items. Food just brings me so much joy, and this list is making me hungry. Off to have some more Moose Tracks!

 Happy weekend friends!

How Our Contained Garden Grows

Our container garden is in full swing with the heat of the summer. Here's a sneak peak at what is growing, sporting, and hinting at blooming...

It's starting to get too hot for our lettuce and it will soon be time to trim it and move it to a cooler and shadier locations.

This is mystery plant #1. I am guessing it is some sort of squash or melon. I planted a bunch of seeds that we had saved and, um...forgot to mark which was which. We have several of these. Anyone know what it might be?

Mystery Plant 2

I am waiting in eager anticipation for these Star Lillies to bloom. Their buds continue to get bigger, but no flowers yet.

The tomatoes are getting plumper and it looks like the crop is going to be successful this year. The last time I grew tomatoes in a pot they died within a week. Secret? Lot's of sun, water and Dr. Earth Tomato Fertilizer.

The Wee-One helping out with the garden chores. One of his favorite activities

And how does your garden grow these days? Anything looking lush and ready for the picking?

Solo Aqui::: Sprouting

Everything seems to be sprouting around here! From a little boy outgrowing every pair of pants he owns (literally) to all of our baby plants who now stand proudly reaching for the sun.

Our citrus trees have begun to grow. Lemons, grapefruits and limes! They are so adorable and fuzzy.

The tomatoes flowers shout with glee as they relish the warm sun. 

Some of the tomato plants even have baby tomatoes! 

Do you have anything growing and sprouting in your life?