Fiber Fool

This year has been a very humbling one for this fledgling gardener. There was much hail throughout the month of June. Three really bad ones with hail piling up and sitting for hours before melting. That has left the garden a bit stunted and behind. I’m not sure how much harvest we will ultimately have, but we had out first meal using stuff from the garden last night.

I have learned that arugula stands up well to hail and is fairly effectively kept from bolting by being planted around the edges of the pumpkin bed. I had a large harvest of fairly petite arugula leaves yesterday morning. I had read they don’t keep very well so I wanted to use them right away. I whipped up a batch of arugula and walnut pesto that I served over cellentani pasta and white beans with carmelized onions and chèvre with a side dressing of balsamic grape tomatoes. There was also of course the required garlic bread :-)

It was delicious if I do say so myself. I’m looking forward to the leftovers as a cold salad for lunch today :-) There is a bit of the pesto left over as well. Perhaps we’ll have that on some polenta cakes???