Book Club: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Book Club was at my house last night and we read Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I admit that I actually read it last year, but it's was one of my favorites so I decided to subject my friends to it, too. It documents a year in the life of the Kingsolver family as they ate only locally grown and raised food, and it was the inspiration for my tiny garden this summer.

As is the custom for our book club, we discussed the book over dinner. And, in keeping with the theme of the book, much of supper was grown in our tiny plot. We had cucumber soup made with our cukes and homemade yogurt, zucchini frittata, a Caprese salad with homemade mozzarella, backyard basil and Eastern Market bought West Virginia tomatoes and baguettes with our own honey and strawberry jam. I did make a non-local chicken salad (no one I know is processing chickens in the city) to round out dinner.



Karl made mojitos with our fresh mint, and for dessert we had peach cake. Yum!