The Roadside Farm Stand

Since the Heist blog was beginning to look like a gardening blog, I decided to go elsewhere with everything garden/cooking related. So please bookmark my latest blog, The Roadside Farm Stand, and make it one of your daily stops. And don't worry, this Heist blog isn't going anywhere! xo

Garden Update: In the Kitchen

This pizza (inspired by one I had at Joey's in Wynwood) was made using Arugula from my herb garden. It's super simple and I highly recommend it. Here's the recipe:

Take a Boboli thin pizza crust and cover it with mozzarella and gorgonzola cheeses. Sprinkle with walnut pieces and pop in the oven. Once the cheese is melty, take it out and top with fresh arugula and drizzle with truffle oil (expensive but worth it!) Voila!

Fresh basil from the garden...waiting to be used (while smelling delicious).

Dill from the herb garden being made into a Sweet and Sour Cucumber salad using a recipe from the book From Seed to Skillet

Homemade turkey soup made from Christmas dinner leftovers and garnished with dill from, you guessed it, my herb garden!

Garden Update

Remember this planter I made? Well, this weekend I spent some time replanting and cleaning it up...under the watchful eye of my supervisor, Zero, of course.

Herb garden maintenance...

One of two pineapple plants

My new succulent basket (that's an aloe plant on the bottom right)

The portable veggie garden. I planted the remainder of my onions...but since this picture was taken, I'm fairly certain that all my onion plants have died. I'm going to have to do some research to see what went wrong.

The smaller tomato variety, on the other hand, is growing like crazy. I staked it up and since this picture was taken it's grown almost all the way over the top. Plus, the first little tomato has appeared on the vine!

Ladybugs!

Another day in the tropics of Miami, another foreign critter killing the local vegetation. In an attempt to get rid of these little pests, we brought in the experts...ladybugs! It hardly seems that these little cuties could be harmful to anyone!