Almost Local BLT

OK - so here's my almost all local BLT.

Bread - Jersey Farmer's Market (though I can't tell you where they get their grain)

Lettuce - Jersey Farmer's Market (yes, I'm a Jersey girl)

Tomatoes - my Garden! (and I'm still getting some)

Bacon - from Trader Joes, so at least it's with non of that extra junk:) I looked to see where they get their product from, it's New England, but can't say where the animal came from.

Oh well - 3 out of 4

Roasting up my Garden Veggies

Saw this way to roast my garden veggies, don't remember what it's called but I adapted what Tyler Florence did on "How to Boil Water"

I'm also proud to say that the veggies that weren't fresh from the garden were local from the Farmer's Market(except my garlic from the jar:)!

Sauteed the sliced onions and poblano peppers in Olive Oil with garlic.

Once they were done frying I spread the onions and peppers out on the bottom of the baking dish. You can see me moving a zucchini below to show you because I forgot to take a picture.

Lot's of colors means lots of vitamins! I layered zucchini, japanese eggplant and tomatoes.

Covered with bread crumbs I made with bread ends and baked at 400 degrees
till brown and zucchini's were soft.

On the plate you'll also see couscous (from the box) cooked in chicken stock with a little parsley and Chicken Carbonara which I'm not sharing because none of us liked it

I used the leftover veggies to make an egg casserole that my daughter and I ate for lunch.

Garden Fresh Salsa!!!

This is by far my favorite salsa. I got the recipe from my friend's husband, who is from Mexico.

I'm going to list the ingredients but not amounts because the fun part is you can add more or less of things depending on your tastes or even how much you have.

Ingredients:
tomato (great way to use up those garden tomatoes)
avocado
onion (I used red but have done with white etc.)
chopped garlic (mine comes from a jar)
jalapeno pepper (or substitute - I used a small amount of hot chili pepper from my garden)
cilantro
salt
lime juice (I've made this with both a little lime and a lot and it's great both ways)

Just chop it all up, mix and enjoy!