Summer Food

Summer on the farm is one of my favorite times. 

Not only is it hot as "balls" here, which I LOVE.

But it is also filled to the BRIM with fresh produce. 

YUM. 

This week is one of my "weeks off" where there are no campers asking me questions about the kinds of cows we have, or tugging on my sleeve asking me to go check out the goats with them. 

Unfortunately... living away from the farm for a while has given me limited knowledge about the names of the cows and the sex of the goats. 

Last week I told one of the campers that we had a cow named blossom, when really, that certain cow has been dead for over 7 years. 

Last week I also told a few campers that the goat Buckwheat that we fed every morning is a male. 

Good thing those campers weren't here THIS week to see Buckwheat the "male" give birth to TWO beautiful babies. 

Oops. 

Anyway, this week I have been making lunch. A lot of lunch. 

Every day the interns, farm owners and farm kids sit down to lunch together. Usually, each intern has a day that they cook for the crew. (about 15 people usually.) well, because I didn't feel like making tomato boxes for 7 days straight I made myself  a chef at every meal prepared this week. 

The sad bit is that I can't find my camera at the moment so I didn't get to capture any pictures of the incredible meals that I made this week, but I will explain a few of them for your drooling pleasure.

Monday:

Fried Green Tomatoes

Corn Chowder

Cheesy Bread

Lemon cucumber salad

Peach and Strawberry cobbler

Wednesday: 

Homemade tacos

Gazpacho

Watermelon fresca

Full belly farm beans

Rice

Peach salsa

Ice cream with frozen fruit toppings

Thursday:

Corn fritters

cucumber salad

Jalapeno poppers 

Peach salsa

watermelon, melon salad with mint

chicken salad

grape juice

... 

You get the point. 

Everything was the best I've every had. 

I love cooking with fresh produce that I don't have to pay for but sometimes have to pick.

I couldn't ask for a better place to be in the summer.

Because this post is missing some pictures I'll add some in... 

pictures of my farm. 

Some that you may have already seen, but I don't care.