Greens from the garden

It is such a joy to harvest green leaves from the garden and cooking it immediately and eating it fresh.Apart from the freshness, you also know for sure that absolutely no pesticides were used to grow them. 

We have that joy once in a fortnight alteast when we harvest our Manathakkali/black nightshade berry plant's leaves(and the mint leaves which comes into the kitchen atleast once a week).Nowadays the produce from a single manathakkali plant is enough to make a good tasty thuvaiyal and serve the entire family. 

Occasionally we do have amaranthus harvests from the plants that grow hither and thither in the ground garden. One such plant turned out very huge that we used its stem to make sambar. It was a very satisfactory meal and a harvest. 

With such a hot summer, we are eternally grateful for all the harvests we get from the garden however small they are!