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All kinds of peas!

This week the Farmers Market was full of peas! Snap peas, English peas, pea shoots... I bought them all. We had a long spring this year, with cooler than normal temperatures and more rain in May, so the produce we think of as spring is showing up in summer. And it is delicious!

Delicious salad with spring greens, snap peas, pea shoots, goat cheese, and roasted almonds. 
The weather now, though, is all summer. It's been relatively dry (a few afternoon thunderstorms some days) and hot (highs consistently in the 90s). It was perfect weather for curing the garlic harvest. I've got plenty to use in my August/September canning - pasta sauces and salsas - and the soft neck variety will store through the winter. I might not even have to buy any this year. And I can save a few bulbs to separate and plant again in early October for next year!

I'm itching to do some canning, but there isn't much available just now. I've already canned a few recipes with bing cherries and apricots. Peaches are starting, but the early ones are the cling variety - too frustrating to try and separate from their pits to chop and can. They are delicious and juicy for eating over the sink, though! But my greens beans are coming in so pretty soon I can put up jars of both spicy and dilly beans.
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