First Harvests

 The garden is all in and now comes the fun part~ harvesting! 

Two cakes I made for a recent baby shower wouldn't have been quite so nice without a yard full of treasures:

From the herb and flower garden~ calendula flowers to garnish a most-amazing, most delicious gluten-free chocolate cake. 

Oh MY.  It is like chocolate cheesecake, without the high fat!  (and uses up eggs!  score!)  I got the recipe here but I did add 3/4 cup sugar to it.  You MUST try it. 

Strawberries from the strawberry patch~

 We aren't getting many berries, but any are wonderful news to us!  So glad most of the transplants survived the move last fall.  Next year, Lord willing, we will have a bumper crop!  The cake inspiration, by the way, comes from this gal and her gorgeous cake. 

And from the vegetable garden~ our first harvest was.......BASIL!  Ahhh-fresh basil, one of the most wonderful smells and tastes in the world!

We used it for this:

What are you harvesting these days???