Garden update

The cutest watermelon ever.One of our okra plants...we have quite a few more of these, but I'm going to leave it to Chad to do something with them. Trying to eat healthy and okra don't mix when you hate stewed and pickled okra. Anybody got a way to prepare okra that's not fried, stewed or pickled?
This plant is called amaranth. It's the ornamental kind, although there is another kind that has a grain that you can eat. Chad got the ornamental kind, on accident I think, but it is really pretty.
Finally, a tomato! I have a few tomatoes on my celebrity plants, and they are starting to ripen up. I thought that none of my tomato plants would produce anything this summer, but it looks like we'll get a few. I've already pulled up my roma plants. Also, I didn't take pictures of this, but our jalapenos and serranos are producing, and I used them to make some salsa this last weekend. It was yummy.
I thought I'd take a few pictures of our garden before we tear it up and plant our fall "crop." It's finally starting to produce some fruits and veggies, just in time for it to start getting too cool for any of this stuff to really grow well. Yes, we learned our lesson, no more planting in mid-June. Stay tuned to see what our fall crop produces.

Also, stay tuned for a new installment of My Week in Food...this week on the menu is pan-fried pork chops and applesauce, bacon mac & cheese, oven-fried chicken parmesan (all three out of my Cooking Light magazine), grilled pork chops, chicken stew with biscuits, and braised pork. It looks like we're eating a lot of pork this week, but a couple of these recipes are from last week. :) Also, I will include my first weigh-in and let you know how much weight I've lost so far, if any.