Tonight for dinner my husband and I made spaghetti. I know, nothing special about that, but we made the spaghetti sauce almost entirely of food from our back yard and also made the spaghetti noodles from scratch.
The spaghetti sauce used tomatoes (lots of organic heirloom tomatoes), basil, oregano, parsley, thyme, and lemon all grown in our back yard. The only things we added to the sauce not from our garden were vinegar, brown sugar, salt and pepper.
The pasta was made using eggs, whole wheat flour and some water. Of course we used a pasta machine to make the pasta.
We rounded out the meal with some wine, baguettes and homemade lemonade. For desert we had some vanilla soy ice cream with chocolate sauce.
The only trash we had that didn't go in the compost bin was the bottle from the wine we drank and the container from the soy ice cream we had for desert. It was also a relatively inexpensive meal, especially if you consider what you would have to pay at a restaurant for a similar meal.
It was a wonderful meal that we were lucky enough to share with a few friends under the stars on our patio, well we do also have some string lights up to provide a little light when the sun has already set like it had tonight.
