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LOL! We ate them quickly. Super simple. Dice 2-3 garlic cloves and an onion or two depending on the size of them. Chunk up 2-3 zucchini or yellow squash. Add chicken broth or veg broth. Cover and boil until all veggies soft. Blend with a stick blender. Season with salt and pepper (I also use some Lowry's salt) and add a couple dollops of sour cream or glugs of heavy cream. Blend again until smooth.

Steaks on the grill for Labor Day along with peach cobbler that I ate too much of Last night chicken fattoush salad and zucchini soup topped with fried blossoms

I can't seem to stop making this squash carpaccio. Ronnie wanted fried chicken...some pieces look odd--he loves to eat the back.

Squash blossom and chicken quesadillas with stuffed poblanos and beans Derby day I rooted through the fridge and found some salsa that needed to be used, some thawed venison and tomatoes on the counter sealed the deal that chili must be made. Deviled eggs because it's Derby Day tradition.

It really feels extremely ......weird/wrong/upside down etc. to be having Derby Day today, but I'm very grateful for a bit of normal. A day to forget about how things are right now. I also hate seeing the stands completely empty. But, again, I am happy to get to watch my beloved horse racing. I've poured a glass of wine...or maybe two by now lol. I'm trying to decide dinner. I like watching racing and putzing around the kitchen in-between races. My favorite derby memory is when Mine That Bird and Calvin Borel won. One of the greatest rides I've ever seen. And it didn't hurt that I had bet the farm on him

I love the cloth

My new favorite thing. I am going to be sad if/when I can't find them at the store anymore. Ohhhh those look so good. The only bad thing about reading here is being hungry for items that I cannot get. @Kim Shook and @robirdstx have made me hungry for tuna salad. I can't remember the last time I made any. The grocery store didn't have any figs...didn't figure they would but a girl can dream. I should write about this in the pandemic thread, but it still amazes me the things that are in shortage at times. The whole section of frozen chicken breasts was empty. I don't usually buy them but had thought I might because it's so handy. Outta luck on that this time lol. Anyway, after shopping and cleaning out the fridge and putting things up (got a little more involved than I had planned) dinner became less that what I was going to do. I had Ronnie pluck 5 of the doves he got so that I could roast them in the CSO. Was going to do more elaborate sides, but too tired. Corn was from the garden that I had blanched and frozen.

Great meals, all. As usual, I'm having fig envy. I have to go to a grocery store today so I'll look and see if they have any. Bet they don't. Seems like every year the garden does something different. I have tons of green tomatoes on that just aren't ripening. My eggplant up and died when the fruits were about golf ball size. Anyway, wanted to make some spag. sauce for the freezer and I always like to add smoked eggplant to it. Had some mushrooms and decided to try smoking them in the stovetop smoker. REALLY good. Will be doing that again regularly. Why had I not thought of doing that before? No pics of the spaghetti and meatballs--ya'll have seen that plenty lol. We had apple pie for dessert that night Next night I roasted chicken quarters with mashed taters, gravy, Jaymes' squash Had to have smoked turkey sandwiches one more time. Tortellini salad and fries to go with (Ronnie isn't wild about pasta salads) Sous vide beef ribs for 24 hours and then broiled with a honey/5 spice mixture. Drunken noodles and shishito peppers done in sesame oil to go with. Dove season opened on the 1st. Scout and Chum are having a blast. Did them the usual way on the grill for opening day. A lone hotdog got thrown on as well. Finally accumulated enough okra for a meal (yeah weird garden year again) so had that with tomatoes and Mac and cheese. I've been diligently picking the squash blossoms. Last night I did some in tempura and stuffed the flowers with mozzarella. Good stuff. Greek salad and pepperoni and sausage pizza to go with.

I'm going to pretend those are chocolate chips.

I use the big ones in meatballs...shredded. Adds a lightness.

I'm in the dark....what am I missing?

Got my bean club box today. I just love the anticipation. I won't ruin it for others, but there was an addition to my box that is SO COOL. I can't wait to talk about it.

@Kim Shook You are a treasure and I mean that. You do so much for others and your food is amazing. Lol, I don't know why it's magically roomy....I don't even cover it with foil anymore. It has to be the white bread recipe and loaf pans that I use??? I dunno.

Chicken quesadillas with stuffed hatch Chile peppers Smoked and sous vide a turkey breast and made white bread yesterday so we could have turkey sandwiches again before tomato season ends

If I didn't know it was tongue, I'd have thought it was really tender corned beef. I think you'd like it.

Corned and then sous vide beef tongue sandwiches along with tempura squash and blossoms

I know I say this every year, but this year takes the cake. We planted 4 squash plants (2 yellow and 2 zucchini) this year which is less than we usually do. They grew HUGE. I'm literally picking 8-12 squash a day from ONE plant and like 3-6 from the others. Needless to say, I'm not keeping up. You would have died at the pile of squash I had/have. Piles on the floor, the counters. I look like a hoarder lol. I have culled a bunch....many went to "rest" in the compost sigh. I feel wasteful, but we have never ever had plants produce like this before. Anyway, I've started picking them very small with the flowers and decided to get brave and do a tempura. I've tried this before and failed. This time it worked! SO GOOD. Sprinkled with sea salt and fresh squeezed lemon juice. I left all of the flowers that weren't attached to a squash for the bees. This was yesterdays pick

Found a beef tongue that we had corned in the freezer. Decided to go 48 hours at 158F. Perfect. Very tender.

I love her online cookbook. It's a go-to for me....I like browsing for ideas. I know if she's put a recipe there that it's tried and true

Yeah, Kim we need the recipe please pretty please 😁

Venison burgers, shishito and fries zucchini fritters and tzatziki along with a grilled chicken fattoush salad

Welcome!!!

Ditto

Ohhhhhhh I would have loved to have eaten at his place. Not sure if I'd have been brave enough though lol. edited to add: @kayb (I hope you're doing ok, if not, ignore this and know I'm thinking of you and get well soon!) is this what I've always wanted to make that you make except I can't remember exactly how you do it--I remember there is a pickle involved???

Salad and spaghetti red over zoodles Tomato cucumber feta salad with pepperoni pizza