Here in USDA Zone 7a, the lawn hasn't exactly stopped generating with the resource of early November, but it is without a doubt winding down. After our first frost in mid-October, we picked the few little tomatoes that have been left on the vine and brought them internal to ripen in a paper bag. There are nevertheless some lima beans on the trellises, however we've got already picked all our wintry climate squash; the beds harbor a few leeks and a few parsley, but we've got were given completed off the closing of the lettuce and arugula. Our Brussels sprouts, of which we had such immoderate hopes, are nonetheless simply feeble clusters of leaves, and it seems not likely at this issue that they will coalesce into right heads earlier than wintry weather hits. (Next yr we are able to begin them masses earlier.) And on Saturday, Brian pulled the previous couple of scrawny scallions out of the mattress to apply in a sausage and apple omelet.
This recipe comes from Olwen Woodier's Apple Cookbook. We usually make it with Gimme Lean Veggie Breakfast Sausage, which has the right texture for crumbling and frying in a skillet, though unlike real pork sausage, it requires the addition of some olive oil to brown properly. You simply brown about half a tube of Gimme Lean in a pan, then add a couple of sliced scallions and a peeled, chopped apple, cook it until it's softened, prepare the eggs in a separate pan, and spoon the sausage filling into them. Paired with some whole-wheat toast, it's satisfying as either a brunch or a light supper. (I would have liked to celebrate this Gardeners' Holiday with a meal that featured our own garden produce a little more prominently—perhaps something with butternut squash—but we were eating out at a friend's house that evening, so we had to make do with brunch instead of dinner.)
This meager handful of scallions in fact isn't really the remaining harvest we are going to get out of our garden this one year. Our rhubarb, for example, stays trooping gamely alongside, and it must with out problem yield enough for a Thanksgiving pie, plus more for the freezer. We also can want to pick a few leeks and limas earlier than wintry weather settles in. But it is really one of the final, a bittersweet reminder that autumn's bounty is drawing to its give up. Soon sufficient, it's miles going to be time to mulch the beds for his or her lengthy iciness's nap, on the same time as we settle ourselves inner to snuggle underneath blankets, sip heat cocoa, and web page via seed catalogues dreaming of subsequent twelve months's garden. So at the identical time as we although can, we will appreciate the treasures of fall that stay?The final of our wintry weather squash, the orchard-ripe apples, the butter beans?Whilst stuffing our pantry and freezer as complete as we are capable of to look us via the iciness to come lower back.
