I am famous around these parts (clear from one end of my house to the other) for making what I like to call Food with No Name.  LOL  It’s what happens when I make up my own recipe out of my head.  Over the years, there have been many versions of Food with No Name, but tonight’s was especially tasty,  so I thought I’d share it with you!  I’m calling this recipe…

Creamy Italian Sausage Casserole

Ingredients:

1 lb italian sausage links

1 can peas

1 large can cream of mushroom soup

1 box macaroni and cheese (the powder kind)

Directions:

Brown the sausage links until cooked through, then cut into bite size pieces.  Add soup, peas, and cheese packet and stir.  Let simmer while you cook the macaroni.  After draining the macaroni, add it to the meat mixture, and stir to combine.

Don’t forget to let me know how you like it!

I didn’t get to go to the last night of VBS at our church tonight, because my back was hurting.  Thank you very much to the storm that was heading this way.

When they left in my van, it hadn’t rained yet, but looked like it could any minute.  The wind was kicking up, and there were dark clouds looming above.  Within a few minutes, it did start to sprinkle, but it never really rained enough to count.  Which is why I was particularly stumped when I saw this…

Yeah, you’re seeing it right. It’s wet where the van was parked, and dry everywhere else. It was not wet when they left for VBS. So, you can see why I’m bewildered. Perhaps there was an EXTREMELY localized shower above my driveway??? LOL Leto is checking things out for me.

He’s thinking it over…

Then he and Max had a debate on the subject, but they have not yet come to a conclusion.

The world may never know.

We had our very first taste of fresh from the garden vegetables over the last few days!  I wish I had pictures of some of them, but silly me forgot to take any.  LOL  I know, me, the queen of garden photos, forgot to take pictures.  What is wrong with me???  LOL

Oh well, I just had to tell you that they were delicious!!!  One day we had liver and onions from the garden.  Then we also had fresh peas!  Pods and all!  They were soooo sweet and yummy!  Then another time, we had some little baby red potatoes from Greg’s square.  Some of them were no bigger than my thumbnail.  LOL  But they were almost creamy to the taste.

I don’t think we’re going to do the layered thing with his square foot potatoes.  The soil he used is too heavy.  So, we probably will try that next year.  But I have every belief that it would work just fine!  Also, the peas might give me another mess, and then they’ll be done.  So, I need to figure out what I want to put in their square.  I would like to plant something we don’t already have growing.  Hmmmm…

I just came across this cookbook by the author of the Square Foot Garden book, All New Square Foot Gardening Cookbook: Taking the Harvest to the Table,  and it looks really good!  It has lots of recipes all centered around your square foot garden!  Click the link to buy it on Amazon. 

Well, here is another RIVETING installment of How the Garden Grows.  LOL  We’ve been able to keep the deer at bay by putting buckets over the tomatoes every night, and either deer netting or chicken wire around or over the other things.

Last time, I bragged a bit over my potatoes that are in the Mel’s Mix.  Well, I may have to eat my words.  Take a look at this.  Greg’s topsoil on the left, and my Mel’s Mix on the right.

Here are Greg’s….. just covered in beautiful, lavender blooms!

And here are mine….. ONE single bloom. I don’t know what the problem is. Maybe it’s because it’s in my shallow Square Foot box.

The peas are just covered in blooms as well, and there are several little pods here and there!

And on the Back 40, the corn is just goin’ to town!  I can’t wait to have fresh corn on the cob!

Our tomatoes are now as safe as we can get them.  We put cages around the bigger ones, and wrapped them in deer netting.  So, unless our deer grow fingers, we should be good!  I also can’t wait for a tomato sandwich!  Store bought tomatoes have no flavor.  Blech.