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Damn, Prawncrackers, can you cook.. Monvano, You have me dreaming of meatball subs with crusty rolls and cheese. I made a vegetarion Chile from my garden, with tomatos, zuchhini, pepper and parsley. All I had to buy was the spice, one onion, and the beans.It came out beautiful. The only things I had to buy was the spices and an onion.

Nonblonde, I love you. I love your awesome breakfast threads. But snails? My gag reflex acts up just thinkg about them. Gross.

Blue cheese, bacon, and onions.

Peanut butter and bacon...

pameliachia: Your savory tart has me drooling.. beautiful. With the abundance of tomatos from my garden, and a really good cucumber I bought, I made a large antipasta plate with cheese,pepporoni,a bell pepper and some olives and hard cooked eggs. It was the perfect hot weather dinner.

No, i don't really bother anymore. I used to soak them for a couple of hours in a few changes of water but i still found you can't really avoid the grit, so nowadays i just give them a quick scrub. Either they're gritty or they're not! I did try once to squeeze the dark crap out of them but it's quite an unpleasant task as they squirm... a lot. So I clean them up after they're cooked, remove the 'beak' and clean out as much of the green crap as possible. ... Have you tried soaking them in some water with corn meal? From what I am told, the clams eat the corn meal, which cleans out their digestive tract and the gritty sand in it. ← I bow toyou, you are the dinner master! We had bLTS based on the fresh garden tomatos.

Yeah, I like dining alone. When I'm really hungry, I just want to get to the business at hand. Homer Simpson said it best. "Eating now, go away."

I would cut Doughnuts into little bites, and make a chocolate fondue.

Brenda, you are the Breakfast master/mistress, I bow to you. Today, in honor of my ripe tomatos, I made B.L.T.'S for breakfast, along with an egg fried in the fat. I was full for hours.

Yup. And , my own toast dope, butter cinnamon and sugar, and Chuffi's stampott of different vegetables, boiled and mashed with potatos.

It has it's uses. Ok, I wouldn't put it out with crackers and fruit, but man, a hunk of it, melted with half a jar of salsa, it's like crack. dip in the corn chip, and have at it.

(Certainly not in this weather) BUT- My local grocery sells a huge hambone with a lot of meat still on it, for like two something. All you need after that is dried beans, one carrot, a stalk of celery, an onion, and bam- enough soup for an army. A local bakery round here sells the overstock of their bread products for ninety nine cents. I can also get white meat tuna in water for ninety nine cents, and they also have a shelf of produce about to go south. They sell huge bags of whatever, for a buck. I've had broccoli, peaches, tomatos, etc, nothing wrong with them, you just have to eat them up in a day or too. The thing is, go in every single shop in your hood, look around, see who has what at what price. You never can tell where a bargin is hiding. And, if at all possible, garden. I have tomatos, parsley, zuchinni, pumpkins, cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, all basically, for free.

I cannot agree more, Fat Guy. when I did daycare, we had a couple of kids allowed candy truly once a year. (Halloween) They attacked the candy like hogs to slaughter, it was kinda sad. my son gets one candy, once a week, and trust me, it's not killing him. as far as fast food, He was older, maybe four, and he will turn eight next week. I've kept pretty much to the same shedule I always had, once a month, no supersizing (He gets the regular kids meal, not the big/mighty kids meal, and milk to drink. I just make sure that the next thing he eats that day is fruit, pretzel sticks, a low fat yogurt, well, you get the drift. Eating, like most of living, is all about the balance.

That watermelon looks amazing! I love potatos and eggs. Growing up, my mom would make what she called the farmer's breakfast. It was potatos, sliced and fried in bacon fat, when they got nice and brown we poured beaten eggs over them and "scrambled" the lot. I might like opera, my first dog's name was Calaf! Like the Character, My Calaf was an unkown prince. A forty dollar animal pound dog, he loved and protected my family for thirteen years, and passed this month last year.

I do hope you feel better soon. Know that we feel your pain. while my dad was ill, I made him peanut butter cookies once a week. He passed In January of 2005. I have not made cookies since. I still cook, but it's going on for three years since I baked any cookies. We will heal. Time is our best friend.

Johnny, Thanks for a wonderful blog. I really enjoyed it, and I don't eat seafood, so that should tell ya, you did a great job!

Klary, Just thanks again for your lovely, informative blog. My zuchinni are ripe and I'm going to make the fritters you introduced me to last year. Cannot wait.

We do reduced carb, and that's how I found this "recipe". It's 2-3 small zucchinis (or one huge honkin' one with the pulpy center removed) that have been shredded, salted, let sit about 15 - 30 minutes in a colander, rinsed, and then squeezed as dry as possible. Two eggs, beaten, with 1 tbsp flour (oat or whole wheat flour works fine, too), 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese, 1-2 sliced green onions, salt and pepper to taste. Mix together and then fry in a little vegetable oil until crispy and cooked through. It's a rough recipe because zucchini come in different sizes and exact proportions aren't that important - you need enough egg to coat all the shreds and a little flour to help hold it together. Sometimes I throw some feta cheese into the batter, this time I added some cilantro, some chopped mint is nice, there's a lot you can to do play with the flavor. I like to top them with a protein, but honestly, I could just eat them plain all day. I also like this recipe because it helps use up all the zucchini we're being blessed with . Marcia. ← I have made them and they are yummy. You mentioned freezing your zuchini. Could you be kind enough to tell me exactly how you did that? Because I'm going to have a ton this year and I do want to keep them, however possible. Thanks.

and the long standing history of people all crunked out stopping for sliders after the bar scene. That is classic.

Sweet Jebus Mike. That's exactly what I'm planning for tomorrow. My homegrown Vine ripe tomatos in a BLT. Torture to look at that tonight.

Movie Title: "Eat me, and die!" I have a serious and very unfortunate allergy to shellfish. I still love your blog, cause I love, love the ocean.

I was right? That never happens! Regarding the smell, ugh, I can well imagine. That must be why the lobsters are attracted to them.

Yup. I buy my German Shepherd pig's ears at Pet supply plus. On the other hand, I'm sure they're something else. ETA- I use to crab trap with my dad off the Virgina coast on vacation, are they some sort of bait? We used fly blown chicken guts.

I would certainly try, if I were you. The worst thing to happen is if they croak you can once again harvest seeds for spring 08. This year has been so strange. We've pretty much been in a drought here since june, yet the vegetables are going nuts. I've got pumpkins the size of basketballs, tomato plants laying down with the weight of the fruit, big cabbages, plenty of zuchini, everything seems to be in love with this hot, dry weather. I'm watering, of course, and we did have major rain over the past weekend, but still, it's hard to believe how well everything's doing this year.

wow, how cool! I don't feel so bad, I had guessed England, and that shore really does resemble North Hampton in England. I cannot eat lobster, But I'm still eager to hear how it went!