Boysenberries, that is 🙂
Chocolate-Covered Snack:
Fresh-from-the-garden boysenberries and High-Protein Chocolate Cake
Every year since I can remember, we’ve grown a few fruits and veggies. Tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, and zucchini are favorites. But I definitely wouldn’t say I have a “green thumb.” Once, a cactus even died on me. How do you kill a cactus?!
And often, wild critters that visit our backyard will eat the garden veggies before they’re fit for human consumption. (Those greedy guys owe me a cantaloupe and a butternut squash, among other things. Pay up!)
Luckily, my very sweet neighbors do possess the elusive green thumb I lack. A few days ago, their little boy rang the doorbell and presented me with an overflowing container of dark purple boysenberries. He chattered away, informing me that soon he’d be back with zucchini, blueberries, and tomatoes! With neighbors like that, why even bother to plant my own garden?!
chocolate-covered katie says
Rebecca,
LOL about the mint! Yes, it seems impossible to kill mint… even if you wanted to! That stuff multiplies faster than rabbits. Goo thing it tastes good! 🙂
chocolate-covered katie says
Lisa,
I always heard that if you swallowed apple seeds, an apple tree would grow inside of you! Never was brave enough to try it, though 🙂 :).
Jess says
High protein chocolate cake? UMMM DELICIOUS. I must try!
<3 jess
xoxo
Sydney says
Vegan gumbo?! Heck yes, I love me some cajun food. That will be making an appearance in my kitchen very soon.
Anna says
I am so excited for this change in your blog! I mean, I love your blog as-is, also, but learning more about you and the fun people and places in your life will be exciting, too! I have also felt that way about adding friends and family to my blog, which is why I’ve given most of them nick-names to sort of shy away from giving out EVERYONE’S personal info, but I’m not sure if it makes much of a difference. I know that my friends enjoy having code names, though, just for fun. I’ve never grown my own food, unfortunately. One day, I hope to live in a place where all types of fruits and veggies flourish and I can have huge ass salads right from my back yard. Obviously, I will have to move out of Arizona for anything to flourish.
Chocolate-Covered Katie says
Anna,
I love your idea of giving friends code names! So cute. Now you have me trying to think up cute names for all my friends :).
Kelsey @ CleanTeenKelsey says
I love that protein chocolate cake, and I wish I had pumpkin so I could make it tomorrow! Oh well.
What awesome neighbors you have! How sweet of them to bring you their homegrown fruits/veggies. Now if only I had those kinds of neighbors.. 😛
Marianne says
We normally don’t have a garden, but have had herbs in the past few years. This year though, mom planted a bunch of tomato plants, as well as a 2 blueberry bushes, rhubarb, and squash. Yay!
Sarah Marie says
This is my first full summer in my new house, and I fenced in a veggie garden plot and planted quite a bit of stuff – cukes, tomatoes, zucchini, okra, buttercup squash, delicata squash, herbs, strawberries, spinach, golden beets, broccoli, green beans, and garlic! Woohoo! I am really loving watching the plants grow and can’t wait until I can eat my own produce!