Good Food, Healthy Life.
We have a peach tree in our backyard. It’s in the very, far back corner, which borders a church. The branches of the tree hang over the church’s parking lot and backyard. This sad little peach tree has been neglected. I couldn’t even guess when that tree was last pruned. Kris has been living in this house for four years and never trimmed the peach tree, and who knows when it was last pruned before that. Despite being a scrawny peach tree, it produces the sweetest, juiciest peaches….
Now I know that everyone has had zucchini bread. It’s the gold-standard way to use zucchini. There are literally millions of zucchini bread recipes on the internet, millions. My mom always has hundreds of zucchini each summer. It’s like she always ended up with mutant zucchini plant seeds, and as the plants grew they would morph into these monstrous zucchini plants that took over the garden. And then the squash bugs would emerge. Squash bugs are so gross. I hate all bugs…. except butterflies and ladybugs. As kids we would have to go out to the garden and turn over the giant scratchy zucchini leaves to check for squash bugs and to make sure they didn’t destroy the plants. While checking for squash bugs we would inevitably come across the “Hulk” zucchini that was hiding away in the middle of the plant. It’s like the zucchinis quadrupled in size overnight! And what do you do with giant zucchinis? You make zucchini bread!…
Tomato season is my favorite time of summer. There is nothing better than picking a fresh tomato right off the vine and biting into it like an apple. Forced to lean forward as tomato juice and seeds drip down my chin and arm, trying to avoid staining my shirt. My mom always had a huge garden growing up, and half of it was tomatoes, well it always seemed like half of it was tomatoes, unless my dad started planting stuff first, then it was half potatoes…….
