How I made lasagna for my birthday

Lasagna in pictures !

Potatoes from the Garden

And yes, they were quite yummy :)

We didn't get a whole lot, but the ones we did get were pretty decent sized! I had basically let the kid do the digging while I tore out the Monster Tomato plant and I don't think he went down far enough. But that's ok :) It's hard work!! I didn't do a lot during the season, you kinda just let these things grow. I did leave a couple baby ones (probably seeds really) in the ground and if they grow next year, awesome. If not, no biggie :)

Next year, we are doing boxes to grow these in. The boyfriend and I will be making 5 boxes for me (not sure how many for him) during the winter for next years garden :)

Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake

So the Cheesecake was a hit :) I personally think it was a little heavy on the clove. They did say that it was lighter than most cheesecakes but that they liked it and it tasted good. I will totally admit it was pretty damn yummy.

Yes, I will be making this again, probably for my birthday or something. Yum!

Pumpkin Cheesecake

All I know is that when I used the knife around the edges before it went in the fridge, it tasted just like Pumpkin Pie. MMMMMMMmmmmmm

Goods from the Garden, Sunflowers and Spiders

Here's a quickie - stuff from my and the boyfriends gardens...and other annoying things ;)

Potatoes that came from the boyfriends garden (and a couple tomatoes), which made some seriously yummy mashed potatoes for that nights dinner :)

So...I came home Sunday to all of my sunflowers bowed over or broken from the wind/weight of the heads. You can see here the stalk of one of the heads and how it's bending. The 2nd picture her is all the different sunflower heads hanging in my downstairs bathroom. I will probably move them up to the attic and hang from the rafters, because it's a lot hotter up there to dry them out. The thing I'm sorta worried about is that at least half of these were too early to really be cut off. So. I have no idea if I will get sunflower seeds out of them. I still have 1 sunflower out back that is freaking HUGE. I will take pics of it if I can to show!

The view if you try to walk to front of my house through the side, before they were all cut down.

This is my bellpepper plant, I've already gotten 1 large pepper off of it, lost 1 that was just starting to grow (the whole freaking branch came away) and it has 2 growing on it.

My monster tomato plant, that I have cut off 1/2 of so far. I mean, damn. It's so heavy I can't get it back up.

The freaky damned spider I killed on Saturday morning. In my kitchen. FML, I really, really, REALLY hate spiders.

Relaxing Weekend and Fruits of the Garden

(previous weekend)

Chilling in the back, napping in our hammock. 

 Ahem, me (sans any make up)

And the boyfriend :)

Fruits of the Garden

This is some form of squash - definitely in the pumpkin family.

Need sharp knives for chopping and slicing!! 

 I basically cooked these in some oil and butter. They have that nutty type of pumpkin flavor, they were actually really good :)

Organic mashed potatoes (yes that is a lot on my plate, but damn they were good!!) Squash and some chicken we picked up at the store. It was a great dinner!