Salmon, sweet potatoes, and asparagus. All in one skillet, with just oil, salt and pepper, and in about 30 minutes. Amazing. It looks expensive, but it wasn't really. The salmon was a "manager's special" i.e., "eat this soon or it will be dog food," and the sweet potatoes were home grown. The asparagus was the only real cost.
I got the recipe at the amazing Art of Manliness website (it is there, just scroll down). We just kinda doubled it.
Speaking of homegrown 'taters, I recently got my first seed catalog for the 2011 season from Seeds of Change. It's a pretty sweet company that sells only certified organic seeds and has a large variety of heirloom veggies as well, which, as you know, I am a fan of. Browse their site and order a free catalog! It's full of good tips and looks like a magazine.
Trip and I have decided to cut back on our garden this year and focus on things we know we'll eat and preserve, and in quantities as such. No experiments this time, no going overboard on cukes and maters. Yikes. I'm really interested in growing my own potatoes again, but in "stacks" kind of. It's hard to explain, but easy once you see pictures. Here is a link to the method I will be using this year. It's easier to harvest them this way. Instead of poking a fork blindly into the soil and sacrificing a few (probably missing some, too), you open up the wire fence and sort through the soil to find them. Unharmed, AND less actual work. :)
I'm planning on growing Yukon Golds (an early variety), All-Blue (a late variety), and whatever sweet potatoes I can get my grubby little hands on. All of these store well.
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