So things have gone a little bit crazy in my 'trial' garden this year. I say trial garden as I had some empty space down the side of my house that was literally doing nothing, it was just dirt. It doesn't get full sun, about 4 - 5 hours or so per day in the summer so I didn't think that would be enough to really grow any of the veggies I wanted to - tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs etc.
Well in Simi I guess 4-5 hours of full sun is plenty!!
I was giving food parcels to anyone that came by.
 Here's one I took round to Sarah's for one of our blog meetings..... |
Anyhow I love sun-dried tomatoes and luckily it didn't take me long to find some great posts on how to make them.The 'pick you own' website has lots of information and I used it for tips for my toms and for drying my herbs too. http://www.pickyourown.org/tomatoes_sun_dried.htm
The easy steps took me from this....
via this...
to this....
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| cheese and sun-dried tomatoes on toasted french bread - yum!! |
with just a couple of really easy prep steps in between - see the link....sun dried tomatoes
As for the Lemon Basil, I went with the 'Pick your own' advice of gently oven drying them over a couple of days....
The Sage and Thyme are next - now I just need some more recipes to use them in...any suggestions?? :)
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