Hey guys! Happy long weekend!
Hope you all got to celebrate + hang out with loved ones.
I worked this weekend but am now blogging from my parents house so it was aaaall worth it ❤
I was up early this morning [6:45am is early for a holiday!] to walk Beasley and have breakfast with my mom.
Flax bread with honey + organic pb, 2 egg white + 1 egg omelette with red pepper, mushrooms and a TON of fresh dill, small orange
I spent the rest of the morning hanging out in the sunshine [aka making a barricade in the backyard so Beasley could come out and play] and taking photos/admiring my parent’s garden.
The happy camper 🙂
I think the lettuce looks like little trees.
Anyone want some fresh dill? ha ha
But seriously…this blanket is only about half of what is actually there. Any takers?
‘Lil strawberry patch.
Hidden strawbs.
My mom and I picked all these in about 5 minutes. Red berry swoooon.
Peppers that put our pepper plants to shaame.
Jalapenos with sneaky dill.
Bolted spinach 😦
Check out these HUGE leaves! Dinos.
My favorite part of the garden…
Kale!! Ooooh yes!
I missed about a million things, but had to stop the photo shoot to help my pretty mama with the weeding 😀
After doing some maaajah damage to the chickweeds we went inside to have lunch.
Homemade soup, lettuce mix from the garden, orangie, salad toppers and strawbs
After lunch I had a gloooorious two hour nap. Felt so so good. I wish I could have a nap every day of my life. Not sure if work would authorize little siestas though ha ha.
When I woke up my mom was already getting started on supper.
She made three different kinds of veggie burgers! 😀 😀
Big salad, quinoa salad, burgs, goudaa
grilled portabella with melted gouda underneath a chickpea falafel burger, quinoa veggie burger + ginger sunflower oatmeal burger.
Recipes of the burgers to come ASAP!! They were all really good!!
We just finished taking Beasely for a walk and now I think I’m going to take another turn in the new massage chair [new piece of heaven] and head to bed!!
Night loves!
Paije xoxo
Tell me…
Do you grow your own veggies? You’ve seen our little planters 🙂 One day I’ll have one as big as my parents’.
Do you have family sitdown suppers or do you mostly do your own thing? Andrew and I still don’t have a table so most meals are eaten in front of the tv [shaame on us I know] or outside on the deck but we always have family dinners at our parent’s houses 🙂
Veggie Monster 
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July 5, 2011 at 1:28 am
Kristie
Your mom’s garden is SO impressive! I’m so jealous! I’d love to just walk out into the backyard and pick a batch of fresh strawberries… oh sigh! And she seems like quite the cook too, THREE kinds of veggie burgers? Now I know where your culinary awesomeness comes from 😉
As for growing our own, we have a few tomatoes and some basil hanging out in the back. Family meals happen a few times a week actually, which is nice.
July 5, 2011 at 3:29 am
Erika
I am totally jealous of all of your fresh, home-grown produce! Those strawberries look so juicy and red. Yum! 😀
July 5, 2011 at 7:16 am
Kaila @healthyhelperblog!
I am SO jealous of your parents garden! How awesome is all that fresh produce! I LOOOVE IT! And those burgers your mom made sound so amazing! I would gladly eat all three of those!
July 5, 2011 at 8:43 am
Lenna (veganlenna)
My parents do grow their own veggies, I live in a block of flats in a teeny tiny room, so there is no way to have my own garden at the moment (which makes me sad)…
I always make my own meal, because I am the only vegan in my family. My mom eats almost nothing and my dad eats junk food…so we eat basically alone in different parts of the house :))
July 5, 2011 at 10:37 am
(what runs) Lori
The lettuce doesn’t just look like trees, they ARE trees! Geez! That garden is awesome!
Lovin’ the veggie burgers!
July 6, 2011 at 5:47 am
Allison @ Food For Healing
oh yum strawberries!
i have a little greenhouse with some herbs, basil, chives, thyme, rosemary and catnip. But every thing seems to keep dying off.. other than the basil, it seems to be growing the best. I’ll keep trying though, i can’t wait to have a real garden one day though!
whenever I am with my family, we always have a sitdown meal together, its my favourite. Even growing up living at home, we always ate supper together.
July 6, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Kate (What Kate is Cooking)
I wish my family ate together more! We used to when we were kids and I loved it. I think we don’t anymore because w all live together- if getting together was more infrequent, we probably would 🙂
July 6, 2011 at 7:48 pm
kbwood
I LOVE your pics, as always!! I get so excited when u blog!
July 7, 2011 at 6:07 am
Jenny
What an impressive garden!! I’ve never grown anything myself but my dad loves to plant flowers so your background is pretty nice. Love all the yummy meals 🙂
July 8, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Megan
HOLY IMPRESSIVE GARDEN.
I have a stevia plant and a basil plant but that is it.
We have sit down meals a couple times a week, but most of the time everyone makes their own dinner and things never come together. So it’s always really special when we do 🙂
July 8, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Rach @ This Italian Family
Wow! What an amazing garden! I wish I had been able to grow a garden this year, but we didn’t have time. Maybe next year. 🙂
July 9, 2011 at 6:13 am
Lauren @ lbott.blogspot.com
Now that is a garden I love!! I have a garden where I am currently growing Squash, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, patio tomatoes, multi-colored peppers, watermelon and pumpkin. I have pots with mint, lemon balm and basil.
July 12, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Jen
Holy cow! I want your parent’s garden; it’s awesome!!!!
August 11, 2011 at 11:49 am
Kelsey @ Snacking Squirrel
im so impressed with those burger patties! they remind me of the veggie burger i just got from salt spring! i bet they taste amazing!!
xoxo ❤