let summer foods console me

Opening the fridge this evening, to add the leftovers of my dinner of pan-fried young broccoli with garlic and new red potatoes with butter and black pepper, i noticed how full it was but how everything was staying so fresh, particularly the lovely veg I got at the farmer's market on Saturday.

Then I also realized, wow, the overwhelming majority of stuff is not only organic, but local too. You have just got to love summer.

So there is:

• half a leftover flax/hemp oatmeal pancake
• dog food components (cooked)
• a serving left in a pkg of tofu
• some dregs at the bottom of a hummus container
• leftover spicy bean mash (from a heirloom local bean mix)
• toasted amaranth & coconut pudding i made last night
• a pkg of tempeh
• nice big pack of fresh spinach linguine (better eat that tomorrow)
• apricots, figs, 1 peach
• green, red, yellow peppers
• beet greens & beets
• 1/2 a cucumber
• basil
• a big bag of green beans
• potatoes
• a little bit of lettuce
• 2 flavours of yogurt (the lemon's almost finished)
• milk
• eggs
• 2-3 cheeses
• miso
• peanut butter
• dog cookies

(the freezer has mostly bread, more dog food, and some blackberries I picked in the park this morning and decide to preserve for the dark days of winter).

What's in your fridge today?