Dinner Tonight

This evening for dinner we had sweet & sour meatloaf from beef from a friend who raises beef cows. I don't even know if that's the right name for them . . cows that . . well . . you know how that story goes.
The veggies were collards, okra and eggplant from the garden. I so wish I could grow enough that we only ate what we grow or buy from others who grow it.

Funny story on the collards. I'm so short on garden space so I couldn't wait for the collards to bolt so I could pull them out and plant beans in their spot. I pulled them all out, planted my beans and the collards kept popping up and soon, there were more collards than beans. I would pull the collards out and finally gave up. Now . . it's a mess but soon the beans will be done.

My grandma always said we shouldn't harvest greens til after a light frost. We haven't had a light frost yet but I felt like I needed a jacket this morning so I figured it was a good day to harvest some collards for dinner. Waiting for cooler weather is supposed to make them sweeter so I wasn't sure what to expect but they were great so we'll be having collards several times a week til probably June or July. 

I also have a  whole bed of arugula that came up where I had last year's arugula. I had waited so I could save the seeds but now I'm not even going to have to plant more because there's so much already out there. Wish everything would do that. I probably shouldn't say that . . some of those things can get a bit aggressive if left to do what they want to do. I did tell Vince not to buy arugula . . it's out there wanting to be picked.