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Cucumbers! Who doesn't love cucumbers?

Just squash so far.

I'm rinsing and chopping my container-garden-grown veggies! right now we have some happy grape tomatoes and jalapeños ready to be cleaned and diced for homemade salsa... and cucumbers ripening quickly for pickling!

I am eagerly awaiting my tomatoes (cherry and San Marzano)to turn into fruit. I am so excited about them.

hungarian hots from my garden

It may be summer in Alaska, but the veggies aren't all ready yet. I'm washing greens and radishes lately. Soon we'll have kohlrabi and zucchini and yellow squashes!

Heirloom tomatoes from the farmers market and hopefully some peppers from the garden we are finishing at our new house.

I have many veggies! CHOUDAIYO!

Fresh Mushrooms for me! These are so colorful and would be great in my new kitchen makeover!

I love 'em!

Fresh farmer's market summer squash, zucchini, and patty pan squash...and plenty (and I mean PLENTY) of strawberries for muffins, bundt cakes, and frozen yogurt!

And I will probably be picking up one of these cutting boards at Whole Foods tonight anyway -- I've wanted one for quite some time. Time to finally get one!

I just bought my first ever fresh apricots, which I am enjoying with much juice and mess. I also picked up some lovely fresh peas and some greens I have never seen before but came very highly recommended by the gentleman at the market. It starts with a P and isn't purslane, has large (bigger than my hand) thick-ish green leaves with purple veins. Anyone know what it is and how best to serve it?

cutting napa cabbage into strips, pickling them and then rinsing them out in a colander.

I am loving the black cherries this year!

So far, I have only been managing to chop some baby romaine and a few herbs. I am holding out for the strawberries very soon. I can hardly wait.

Rhubarb...yum.

Oh man, we pick up our first CSA basket tomorrow! According to the farm blog, we're getting cukes, spinach, chard, and salad turnips (my favorite!). I am pretty stoked.

Big, beautiful, locally grown strawberries. They are so incredible!

Mostly salad greens right now

I love those! I already have their toothbrushes.

I'm chopping nectarines this week for my cereal

When summer comes around I'm washing and preparing a lot salad greens.

Mostly strawberries but last night it was wild mushrooms! Yum!

squash. and zucchini.

oh, and salad greens, swiss chard, tomatoes, strawberries, and peppers. and a ton of herbs.

god, i love summer.

fresh kale, napa cabbage and radishes from my CSA delivery that just started up this week! i love how colorful these are!

Strawberries!!!

Our supreme yellow banana peppers are just now starting to ripen in the garden - and we've been slicing french breakfast radishes since mid-March! And lettuce up to our ears.

Lucky for us, the first of "fig" season. As well lots of berries, heirloom tomatoes and squash. Love summer time eating!

We've been washing a lot of lettuce and beet tops and slicing bell peppers, eggplant, green onions, and carrots.

baby chard!

I'll be canning peaches this weekend.

My CSA pick up is tongiht - i'm hoping for more rainbow chard!

Lots of lettuce coming through CSA.

Eggplants and peppers from my own garden.

Strawberries, tomatoes, summer squash, and any day, spinach! YUM!!

I love making dips and salsas with fresh tomatoes and corn.

Chopped some collard greens for a delicious pasta dish recently.

lots of strawberries, tomatoes, and basil

Squash and strawberries and stone fruits!

From this week's CSA box: Tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, sweet onions, carrots, red potatoes.

mixed greens, strawberries, and chard.

strawberries and plums...

Broccoli (is that for summer?), strawberries, rhubarb... Whatever is new at the farmer's market!

fresh strawberries! looking forward to the first cherries this weekend as well.

Tomatoes, carrots, bok choy!

Strawberries, blueberries and assorted veggies

English cucumber and lemon slices to throw into a glass of ice cold water.

squash and watermelon

spinach and strawberries

Lots and lots of green beans in our home lately.

Strawberries, get'em while it's hot!

We're up to our ears in produce from the CSA: kohlrabi, beets, green onions, Asian cabbage, and more.

Strawberries by the loads!

Last night's victims included a bunch of parsley, a head of broccoli, three jumbo potatoes and a pound of strawberries.

I've been enjoying lots of fresh berries, citrus and melon.

Strawberries for sure, not to mention mango and all the fresh herbs I can get my hands on!

Tonight it will be tomatoes. In the last few weeks it's been beets, carrots, cherries, etc.

Most recently chopped--collard greens, baby eggplant, yellow summer squash, and asparagus (probably the last of it for this season)...

snap peas and berries and lots and lots of mint.

mmmm. All the delicious mangoes from our trees...

just about anything from the farmer's market. I have dreams of heirloom tomatoes...

tomatoes, tomatoes, and more tomatoes - greens, cucumber, potatoes, broccoli, fresh picked berries...

I love those cutting boards - I have some cheapo flimsy ones from the kids' school fundraiser a few years ago... but they work for now! Would love to win. Thanks for the chance.

surprise veggies from the csa - mostly greens right now...and snippets from my new mint and lemon balm plants.

strawberries, and herbs from my window garden!

everything I eat! especially lettuce, berries, mushrooms, broccoli and brussel sprouts (my new favorite vegetable!)

Tomatoes! (I live in CA and buy locally, it's ok)

Cherries.
I know they're on their way out soon perhaps, but I have spent countless hours rinsing and then pitting them for various baked goods :)

Those colanders are adorable! <3

Mostly salad greens now, but I'm eagerly awaiting homegrown tomatoes and peppers!

Spinach, and strawberries. Not at the same time.

Strawberries. MMM!

i love those colors!

rhubarb and strawberry pie

strawberries!!!

Melons and strawberries for our fruit salads and, soon enough, tomatoes and peppers for salsa, guacamole and sandwiches!

garlic scapes and baby bok choy today! the farm share just started.

Lettuce, lettuce, and more lettuce from my CSA. And lots of bell peppers to make it a lettuce.

strawberries and pears

squash, asparagus, cherries. happiness.

Yummy okra and tomatoes I picked up from the farmer's market.

asparagus, garlic scapes, grape tomatoes, strawberries, green beans and eagerly awaiting heirloom tomatoes

My absolute favorite summer produce happens to be tomatoes. I will be chopping those all the time, especially in the late summer months.

apricots! rinse a big pile of them, pull or chop into pieces, throw em into a skillet with a knob of butter, some brown sugar, and shot of mandarin vodka. simmer it all up and ta da! fantasticots!

Strawberries, melon, tomatoes...

rhubarb and asparagus!

I love all of the melons. My memories of childhood are sitting at the pool with a giant bowl of mixed fruit.

Strawberries, Blueberries - We love it ALL!!!!

I've been rinsing lots of lettuce - but not chopping it too much :) Thanks!

zucchini

tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, watermelon... i love it all!

I have just started developing a love for salads so all things salad-y are what I'm rinsin and choppin! We also go to the strawberry patch (what a fun time) and then chop and make preserves!

Oh man, strawberries, watermelon, pineapple, canteloupe are only some of the many fruits we are eating now. When my garden starts producing we'll be doing lettuce, green beans, sugar snap peas, carrots, tomatoes.
YUM!

Definitely strawberries, mostly for cereal in the morning but also on top of vanilla ice cream.

Plenty of zucchini, strawberries, lemons and mangoes.

Most recently I was chopping up rhubarb to make rhubarb crisp-very yummy served warm with vanilla ice cream!

Tonight I made a squash casserole; I also made cucumber salad.

Lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, onions, strawberries, watermelon... I LOVE fruits and veggies and this is the first time I am growing my own little "mini garden" so I hope in the next few weeks I can skip going to the farm and pick my veggies from my own little garden.

Definitely zucchini!

I love watermelon!

Strawberries, watermelon & cantaloupe! These are the cutest colanders & cutting boards. I'd love to win. Thanks for the chance!

Peaches, Grapes, Strawberries and Home Grown Tomatoes.

Awesome stuff. Thanks for the contest.

Cherries lately!

We eat lots of fruits and veggies! Most days we have some combination of the following: carrots, sweet potatoes, strawberries, bananas, blueberries, watermelon, cantalope, tomatoes, squash, etc.
These would be such a nice addition to our kitchen.

From our farm share box: scapes and radishes.

I have been into snap peas, cherry tomatoes, and baby spinach!

Tomatoes, strawberries, watermelon and maybe some rhubarb for some really yummy cake! Thanks for the giveaway. These look really fun! (As much as a cutting board and colander can, anyway.)

All tomatoes, ALL the TIME! Hooray it's finally warm in the PNW!

I love blueberries---they'd be right at home in a blue colander!

The apricots on our tree are almost ready - this would be perfect for them!

We've been serving more mushrooms lately.

Thus far, from our garden are radishes, Bib lettuce, spinach,
romaine lettuce and chard. Later, there will be green peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. I love these colorful items. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks, Cindi

Lots of tomatoes - today I had some brussel sprouts. Not summery completely but so good!

Have been chopping squash , cucumbers and hope to have lots more produce to chop soon.

CSA features - heirloom tomatoes, apricots, nectarines, peaches, cherries and strawberries. Yum!

We hit the farmers market every week so it changes all the time. This week it's lots of fresh fruit... cherries, peaches, strawberries and some plums.
gkstratos @yahoo.com

We have a CSA too -- this week we used a lot of strawberries, rhubarb, and garlic scapes. Yummy.

Tonight it was zucchini! Yumyum!

carrots

Corn!

Strawberries, cherries, blueberries....yum

Peaches, pluots, strawberries, mangoes, squash & homegrown zuchinni, tomatoes, corn yummy!

Zucchini, Strawberries, Lettuce, Carrots, Watermelons, Mangoes, Tomatoes, Cabbage.

we go to the upick and get strawberries...lots of rinsing and chopping
3beez at bellsouth dot net

right now normal garden veggies - carrots, celery. Time to start buying squash, eggplant and zucchini!

rinsing strawberries and chopping apples for tasty summer eats.

what a great idea to use recycling materials. I love the colors of the colander and cutting board. Thank you for such a neat product
whsoilers@yahoo.com

Not much is coming up in my garden except for strawberries, but from our CSA we have received bok choy, napa cabbage, lettuce and beets.

Cucumbers and green onions.

Yummy strawberries!

Would love these, I need new ones badly!

It's conceptual - I want to make a jalapeno rhubarb jelly.

We're on a zucchini kick lately - grilled, in bread, baked, etc.

I love lettuce!

Mostly lettuce

Scapes!

these days it's a lot of zucchini, strawberries and blueberries. my toddler can't get enough!

Strawberries!!!!!!!

Spinach from Farmer's Market for Monterey Jack/Spinach Enchiladas. Yum!

we just got our first csa pickup! Kale and salad greens and bok choi and radishes and garlic scapes. happy.

I am doing tomatoes and strawberries!
I would use both products!

rinsing strawberries and chopping rhubarb. yum!!!

I am trying out my hand at a small garden this year. Sugar snap peas, carrots, cucumber, and spinach.

We've been having a lot of swiss chard, snap peas, and cherries (but not at the same time!) :)

Blackberries.

I make a huge fruit salad every weekend to eat through out the week - It would be great to have a thin cutting board that is easy to store in my tiny kitchen!

Strawberries.... and tomatoes!!

I just discovered garlic greens which, thankfully, require minimal rinsing and chopping. But I could still use the giveaway!

I grill a lot, so I love to grill vegetables: asparagus, peppers, tomatoes, etc. What is also fantastic is sliced plums (especially the black ones) served with grilled pork tenderloin. MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm

strawberries, vine ripened tomatos, asparagus - you name it, i'm choppin' it!

Heirloom tomatoes, green papaya, and banana blossom:

-heirloom (rinse, cut in half, squeeze on lemon & sprinkle on salt, yum..i can't eat just one)

-raw green papaya (rinse, peel, julienne, and make crisp cold papaya salad)

-banana blossom (slice thin, rinse, rinse, rinse some more, and make cold and bold banana blossom salad).

Strawberries, cherries, herbs...

choppin' what ever comes up. In our containers. It's hard here in the desert to produce but we do have success some of the time

I am washing and chopping whatever I get in my locally grown basket-of-the-month! I'm hoping for peaches and blackberries this weekend!

rinsing = definitely strawberries. chopping = watermelon. Yum.

Kale, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions. Vegans love to chop!

Melon this week - bring on the honeydew!

I could chop so much on these boards and rinse so many things! I'm a chopper so I would love to chop salsa and guacamole ingredients, all my veggies for summer grilling like portabello mushrooms, onions, squashes, bell peppers. Prepping fruits and summer corn...Mmm I'm hungry now.

all our CSA fruits and veggies: green beans, strawberries, onions, garlic, potatoes, basil... the list goes on!

Asparagus, squash, and artichokes.... we just got a new grill and NOTHING is better than grilled veggies in the summertime! And if you've never had a grilled artichoke you have no idea what you are missing...

carrots, celery, parsley and apples for the juicer!

strawberries, peaches, and apples for my mini pies!

Strawberries and kale.

Mm -- strawberry-kale smoothie? ;-)

Does mint for mojitos count?

My favorite right now: garlic scapes.
In one month: melons (with chili powder sprinkled on top)

strawberries, watermelon, peaches, green beans, asparagus...

Tomatoes, peppers, all kinds of herbs, plus whatever looks good at the farmer's market...

We are drowning in asparagus!

basil!

Apricots and raspberries. Yum!

Strawberries right now, I can't wait til my tomatoes are ready!

strawberries tomatoes and mint!

herbs for pesto!

our kids are eating strawberries like crazy! They're straight from the farm.

yummy summery corn

Lots of tomatoes... they're the only things I ever try to grow.

today alone I cut some local onion and baby bella mushrooms. but I can get into some cutting trouble with goodies from our farmers market.

onions, garlic, potato, zucchini

cabbage

Lots of celery, mushrooms, spinach. Not tomatoes. :-)

herbs straight from my garden

Bell peppers... orange, yellow, and red! YUM!

Hm...yesterday it was swiss chard, sugar snap peas, scallions, and garlic scapes...all grown three miles from my house!

My family joined a farm, we have lots more veggies coming!

We can't get enough watermelon at our house. And soon all of the ingredients for homemade salsa will be ready to pick from our garden!

Strawberries, squash, carrots, celery, bell peppers...the list goes on....

green tomatoes, strawberries, and three types of lettuce -- all from the museum of contemporary art's tuesday farmers market!

lemons, strawberries, bananas

well with a 10 month old, i'll be rinsing and chopping a lot of new fruits and veggies for him to try. this should work great in my house!

salad greens and strawberries

I'm usually chopping up whatever I bring home fresh from the market after work. This week it was strawberries, mangoes, onions, and lemons (all at different times)!

cucumbers and onions

Peppers from the farmers market, onions, and strawbetties.

We have a bucket full of fresh local strawberries.YUM!

My husband was raised in rural Alaska where most of the year any fresh produce was a rare treat. I grew up surrounded by orchards: fresh produce was a way of life. We're rinsing and chopping anything (and everything) we can get our hands on!

Cantaloupe, tomatoes, anything fresh and ready for summer. I love the fruits that are ripe this during this time. Thanks

String beans! I love to sit on the patio with a bag of string beans and a colander. I break off the ends, wash them in the colander and then cut them into bite-size pieces or leave them long, depending on how I will use them.

Strawberries...........our tomatoes are late this year. :(

Homegrown Tomatoes....not the Salmonella type. Gotta love 'em!

Watermelon also!
YUM!
wendym at cableone dot net

rinsing and chopping herbs and berries, berries and herbs...

I've been pulling double duty on the veggies and fruits this summer--part of the joy of living in florida!

So, everything from blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, nectarines, peaches to veggies, including green peppers, red and yellow peppers, assorted greens, squash, lettuce, and cukes!

Gosh, I love my summer season--I've even included various safe tomatoes and our unique locovore greens such as dandelions, red and green romaines. all in all a great summer harvest.

would love the opportunity for one of the recylclines since I'm relying on my old metal colandar! As you can see, I'm attempting to move toward eco-friendly equipments, as well as home or local veggies and fruits!

thank you for the opportunity!

Kat

Oh geez...absolutely everything! Tomatoes, strawberries, green beans, carrots, summer squash, watermelon, lemons, onions!!! If it's fresh and healthy, I'm using it!

Lots of peppers

perfect for draining lettuce and cutting tomatoes for refreshing summer salads... also fruit salads! yum!

This time of year the favorite produce in our house is strawberries. We also eat a lot of peppers and various greens. And the staple produce in our house is always broccoli! We love broccoli.

I love the products you're giving away and would be happy to win. Thanks.

Oranges, strawberries, bananas...
bell peppers, onions, tomatoes (well, not at present due to the recalls)...

jasonncaryn at yahoo dot com

fresh strawberries from the local farm! Great on homemade strawberry shortcake - yum!

I love the bright colors on these. Right now we're eating a lot of grapes and strawberries.

Squash and strawberries so far.

I'm rinsing and chopping fresh tomatoes and herbs for salsa fresca! Love summer!

Most recently, I've been rinsing and chopping peaches! I love brightly colored colanders...this would be great. Thanks!

We're crazy pesto freaks, so we wash and prep a lot of basil and other pesto-friendly herbs.

Strawberries! I just made 12 pints of jam this morning.

Romaine of course!

This summer I am rinsing and chopping strawberries, blackberries and bananas.

What aren't I chopping? Lots of tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, mushrooms.

Rinsing cherries! YAY. And chopping carrots for pick-me-up soup.

lots of strawberries

I love strawberries and leeks in the beginning of the summer (have rinsed and chopped a bunch already!), tomatoes and blueberries in the middle, and cucumbers towards the end. Oh, i love summer and all the great fruits and veggies!

Fresh snow peas from the farmer's market!

Cherry tomatoes! I know these haven't have been excluded from being tainted with salmonella. But I'm still rinsing them extremely well.

tomatos, beans and lettuce from the farmers market

lettuce and peppers