Dinner Outside

We try to take every opportunity that we can to use our deck for eating.  We both love outdoors.  There is added enjoyment from eating outside in the fact that we are growing some of the edibles ourselves, and a lot of the remainder we are getting from our local organic farmer; plus we built the deck ourselves.

I've been practicing making bruschetta.  Here I used 3 seeded bread from Panera, which I dipped into a mixture of olive oil, fresca cheese, fresh organic garlic, fresh organic basil, and sea salt.  I grilled on a panini grill.  I added fresh organic chopped tomatoes to the mixture for further dipping onto the finished bread.


This is the overall dinner.  The main dish was a pasta with fresh vegetables.  I use whatever we have on hand, in this case pasta, olive oil, zucchini, yellow squash, onions, red bell peppers and garlic, pepper and sea salt - all organic.  We added freshly grated parmeson cheese and green ice tea.