Wanda's garden tour--great fun!

Seven of us met at 2Eskies Garden Store in Rush City. A small store but with some really fun stuff. We all bought plenty!
Loading up the van was a little tricky.
The Grant House in Rush city, less than two blocks away, was a great place for refreshments. The raspberry cream cake was a real hit. Thursday's special two dollar burgers were home made! We all agreed we'd be back.Wanda's house, a few miles out of town on lush, winding roads, is situated on 15 beautiful acres that feature a small pond and a terrific bonfire pit.

Lovely little gardens are situated all about the property.

Wanda has been working hard edging and mulching beds.
In the backgound, notice Wanda's experimental square foot gardens.
We posed for a photo, Kristie serving as photographer, then went to have a quick look at the livestock--chicks and ducklings!

Thanks for organizing a terrific evening for us, Wanda! And thanks Kris for documenting the event!

Zucchini Parmesan served with Couscous

Pam’s Zucchini Parmesan with couscous

1-1.5 hours prep time

Serves 4 – 6 people as main course

Simmer in medium saucepan for 30-45 minutes:

4-5 med to large tomatoes diced (fresh tomatoes are wonderful but you can use canned)

1 reg can of tomato sauce (home made is great)

small can mushrooms or equivalent sautéed fresh mushrooms drained

¼ cup dry red wine

1 tsp Worchester sauce

2 tsp brown sugar

salt and pepper

½ tsp chili powder

¼ tsp nutmeg

¼ - ½ tsp cayenne pepper

Sauté in olive oil in a skillet

½ cup green onion chopped (or as much as you like)

1-2 tbsp garlic chopped (or as much as you like)

1 tbsp oregano and other Italian spices (as you like)

Remove from pan and add to tomato mixture. Then, in a little more oil, sauté lightly

1½ to 2 thinly sliced medium sized zucchini

Lay out the lightly sauteed zuchinni in a rectangular pan (8.5 x 13 inch) overlapping

Pour the tomato mixture over the zucchini

Sprinkle with 1/3 cup of breadcrumbs

Sprinkle over this 1/3-cup of Parmesan cheese

Over this sprinkle about 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes at 325 –350 degrees. Remove foil for the last 10 minutes. Let stand for five minutes while you prepare couscous.

Prepare couscous (1 part couscous to 2 parts liquid, I make 1 cup cousous in 2 cups liquid) in water, a little olive oil and chicken flavoring (bullion or chicken stock) Combine water and chicken flavoring, salt and oil in a saucepan, over medium heat and bring to a boil. Turn down heat and stir in couscous. Cover and turn off heat. Let stand thus for 5 minutes.

Serve couscous topped with the Zucchini Parmesan. Enjoy!!

Tour of Wanda's garden, Thursday, June 23

We are all set up for June 23^rd for the Rush City tour. Unfortunately we will not be visiting Melon Vine Farm as the owner is going in for eye surgery, but Wanda has arranged for us to go to 2 Eskies Green House in Rush City instead.

Our schedule is :

5:30 PM at Grantsburg High School, if you wish to carpool to Rush City

6:00 PM meet Wanda at 2 Eskies Greenhouse (right on 61 in town—they close at 7:00 PM))

7:00 PM go to Grant House for dessert (they close at 8:00 PM)

We will tour Wanda’s garden after dessert.

Sounds like a fun time!! Hope to see you all there!

Plant Sale pictures

We had a great time at the plant sale!