French Apple Cake With Apples From The Backyard

Ana apple is the best cultivar for Los Angeles as it can tolerate warm weather. It is delicious when eaten fresh and also great for cooking and baking as it retains its shape better than some other varieties. For our apple harvest, I turned them into French apple cake. Happy gardening, happy baking and happy summer!

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Picnic Frittatas For Our Picnic By The Ocean

Popped up early in the garden to snip some flowers and harvest some vegetables and fruits for our picnic. Some tomatoes, peaches, cucumbers, grapes, bell pepper and calamondin/calamansi. Then to the kitchen. Cracked five eggs, a sprinkle of salt topped with bacon, tomatoes, bell pepper and freshly grated cheese. On to the oven for 12 minutes and voila... our picnic frittatas. For the juice, I squeezed a handful of calamansi into a picnic carafe, sliced a cucumber, a tablespoon turbinado sugar, then filled with ice cubes, some freshly-picked splenda and a bottle of water. Closed the lunch boxes, grabbed the picnic blankets and drove to Malibu Bluffs Park for a lovely picnic overlooking the ocean. Then came the squirrels.. one, two, three,.... six of them playing that kept us entertained and amused. We walked a little bit. We could not hike on the trail because it's the season of the rattlesnakes.

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Summer Squash Pizza and Bruschetta With Homegrown Tomatoes

A summer squash recipe that kids would surely love -- pizza! Last night's laid-back dinner in the backyard garden were summer squash or patty pan pizza and bruschetta with colorful homegrown tomatoes in homemade ciabatta. Buon appetito! Happy gardening & happy cooking!

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Summer Garden Harvest For Fish Pinangat

Preparing food from back home "pinangat na isda" with some backyard garden pickings - the colorful tomatoes, calamondin/calamansi, fushimi eggplant and Japanese eggplant.

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Colorful and Healthy Dinner with Backyard Harvest

A delicious and healthy dinner with some harvest from our California backyard garden -- yellow zucchini, cucumbers, colorful tomatoes and donut peaches. Ah, the bounty of summer! The pink roses were also picked from the garden.

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