Independence Day feast

We were sitting around the patio table the other night with a couple of gorgeous girl-friends talking about our plans for Independence Day which were exactly nothing when all of the sudden we decided we should have a barbecue at the garden.

This sounds like a good plan to me because I don't have to go anywhere or fret about having too much food that I don't feel like preserving this week because we aren't going to be at the market on Saturday. It's just going to be good friends, good food, and hopefully a low key beautiful afternoon.

I finished the harvest and I have some of the preparation for the preparation done. The produce I had to buy includes potatoes, onions, carrots, celery, kohlrabi, a couple peppers and blueberries.

The rest of the produce came out of the garden.

Garden harvest

HERE'S THE MENU:

For the meatatarians:

• Local, Grass-fed hamburgers with fixins'
• Organic all beef hot dogs
• Local pastured chicken wings
• Organic bacon on top of potato salad

For lacto-ovo vegetarians:

• Potato salad
• Caprese salad on a stick
• Pasta salad
• Buttered popcorn

For vegans:

• Vegetable chili
• Quinoa salad
• Coconut oil popcorn
• Baked zucchini chips (only because I don't have enough room for all of it in the dehydrator)
• Steamed corn
• Strawberry pie
• Chips and salsa

For raw/vegans:

• Green apple cucumbers stuffed with Gidget's Garden salad
• Dehydrated zucchini chips
• Passion fruit juice

"This event is okay with me just as long as there's chicken."