A Spring dinner from the garden

Every day I am completely delighted by the abundance in the vegtable patch. So many things to choose from and of course I have to find a way to use them all. I am not buying any vegtables at all at the moment and starting to give away quite a lot as well. At the same time there is not quite enough of anything to make it the main ingredient of a meal, except perhaps for the lettuce but i dont have an idea for that as a meal.
Friday afternoon I picked some lovely lettuce, dill, radish, snow peas, sugar snap peas,nasturtium leaves and flowers for a lovely fresh salad. Dressed with a drizzle of caramelised balsamic!



Peas, broccoli, broccolini and leeks went with some fresh eggs and Fetta into a lovely sour cream pastry tart case for a spring vegetable tart!



I also baked some beetroot and stirred a dollop of sour cream through. A delicous dinner, almost all from the garden. When we were eating it we thought we should get a goat or a cow so we can make our own cheese.

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