- Arrive in camp around 6pm. Agree to make a frozen pizza because it is hot and you are feeling lazy and vaguely cranky and just want to read.
- Guiltily think about all the fresh vegetables you’ve acquired over the past few days, and consider how long they’ll last.
- Decide to add a big salad to the dinner menu.
- Heat a pot of water to boil tiny red potatoes unearthed from your parent’s garden.
- When searching for herbs in the fridge, grumble a little when the mozzarella falls off the shelf. Set it on the counter and forget about it.
- Discover you have one last ear of sweet corn in the bag your dad gave you when you left their house late last week. Find a few extra green beans.
- Pre-heat the oven.
- Slice the kernels off the cob, sending corn shooting out onto every corner of the kitchen counter.
- Remark that the breeze smells like rain and pine sap.
- While the potatoes are cooking, consider the bag of Swiss chard your friend gave you from her garden. Throw the green beans in with the potatoes for the last minute.
- Change your mind about the pizza.
- Grab three eggs – brown blue tan – and crack them into a bowl. The yolks are rich, dark yellow. The eggs are from your parents, too.
- Drop a pat of butter onto the drained potatoes & beans and shower them with rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper.
- Heat minced garlic in your little cast iron pan. Inhale the scent. Add the corn and quickly sauté.
- Slice chard into ribbons and cook with the corn just until it wilts.
- Lean out the door to watch the sky turn yellow as a short sprinkle of rain spatters the dust.
- Remember the mozzarella and grate a pile of cheese. Eat a big pinch. Mix the rest in with the eggs.
- Add the eggs to the pan with the corn & chard. Stir gently. Let the eggs set.
- Remove a stray corn kernel from the window.
- Finish your Backyard Garden Frittata under the broiler until the top is puffy and brown.
- Toss the potatoes and beans with a handful of salad greens to serve alongside the frittata.
- Listen to crickets while you eat.
- Grin at your boyfriend he says this is better than a frozen pizza.
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