Great Recipes: Ratatouille
Talk about meal planning: when you set your mind to grow from seed (mostly) the ingredients for great recipes, it’s a long way from February’s seedling flats and September’s culminating dinner.

Ingredients from the garden: eggplant, squash, and tomatoes with sweet peppers, garlic, onions, and herbs
Without a doubt, you won’t enjoy a meal quite like this very often in your life. Planting the ingredients you like to cook with (in this case: eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, onions, squash, garlic, and herbs) finally generates, deep in September, enough organic matter to produce a truly memorable ratatouille.

Tomatoes and peppers mingle while eggplant and squash roast