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Interesting. When I saw your picture, @liuzhou I thought "well, yeah, I've grown some that look like that". But, after going through my garden/okra pictures, I can't find any. I have 12 plants going right now in the garden. I will report later in the summer.

Everything looks so good...but I find myself really wanting a chocolate covered gummy worm more than anything. Don't judge lol.

I WANT that lunch!!! Happy Birthday @Anna N my friend!!!!

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I just did a little happy dance around my kitchen!!!!! So excited for you both!!!!!!! @rotuts and I will anxiously await your creations

This looks amazing. I was going to say the same thing. I need to try these before I die. I just can't believe I can't get them around here. It's not fair lol. I seem to be on a roasted chicken kick. And Ronnie seems to be on a collard greens kick. Found some doves that had buried themselves in the freezer. Made risotto in the Instant Pot to go with. Super good.

I finally got around to making risotto in the IP. I don't know what took me so long. I could eat this all the time and it's SO easy. I added mushrooms and asparagus from the garden. Heavenly. Picture on the dinner thread.

I'm green, too. Pea green.

Host's note: this topic has grown too large for our servers to handle effficiently, so it has been broken into segments; the previous segment is here: Dinner 2017 (Part 4). Lasagna last night. Mom brought me some stuff from Grammy's kitchen and this glass bread pan was included. Perfect for making a very small amount of lasagna.

My mom came for a couple of days. We had a blast. I forgot to take pics of some of the food but here's a bit. My wonderful cleaning angel brought me strawberries from her patch. SO good. They actually TASTE like strawberries. Snacks for when mom got here after an 11 hour drive Ramen noodle chicken salad--we love this stuff Pizza night Fried chicken wings and gizzards last night

Ready for my boring yearly garden pictures? I just like to keep a little record here of what I've planted. I hope this years gardenage is waaaaaay better than last year. Radishes are plentiful Green beans doing well so far--well the ones that Chum isn't sitting on are anyway..... Red, white and yellow onions Collard greens 6 cucumbers Lots of yellow squash and zucchini (gotta guard that from @HungryChris Lettuce tons of beets 12 or so okra plants a few bell and jalapeño peppers and a couple eggplant 40 some tomatoes 4 artichokes (never planted these before) Not pictured--the Silver Queen is just barely peeking through and so is one spaghetti squash. I've planted delicata squash twice now and it won't germinate...bad seeds?

I LOVE that star shaped bowl. Love love love.

I am going to be kicked off of EG for this: I had to google to find out what a cartouche even was. And then I found out it had something to do with Egyptian hieroglyphics and had to continue googling.

Like Anna, I needed a toastie last night. So I had one with green beans and roasted chicken.

I have some blood sausage buried in my freezer somewhere. I need to find it. Looks good!

Thanks you two! I just could not make the dough smooth after shaping them...any "wrinkles" did not leave...they just stayed no matter how much I tried to "smooth" them out. Maybe I should have kneaded it longer or a tad less flour. A bagel expert, I am not lol. edited to add--I've only seen bagels that you can buy at a generic grocery store and they always have perfectly smooth tops. Maybe real NYC bagels are more wrinkly?

Made bread and some water bagels in the CSO yesterday. Yes, my bagels do not look perfect lol but they are really good! Using the bread setting and reducing the bake time by 5 mins was perfect.

I always LOVE looking at your desserts...and your food...and your daughter's gooey bars...YUM. I've long wanted to try the sugar babies in cookies--ever since I saw yours a long time ago..I just always forget to look for any when I'm at the store.

I want that @HungryChris right now for breakfast. Oysters, shrimp and gorgonzola stuffed ravioli with shrimp and asparagus.

Ronnie had a dinner meeting...he texted me a picture of the best looking rare tuna over some sort of rice. I had a few bites of fat free cottage cheese out of the container. And wine.

Good thing you didn't have to share with me....I'd have hoarded all of the roasted soy beans.

OH MY GOSH look at that chandelier. I could stare at that for hours. I can't remember...is alcohol forbidden in all places or do some hotels serve it?

Ronnie went fishing at the lake yesterday and brought home some nice white bass

Oh wow. I've always wanted to visit the UAE. I will never get to, so this is awesome. Look at that water and that view! Amazing. Are those pine nuts on a salad above the sadly overcooked beef? And yeah, the rest of the airplane meals look really good.

Derby day dinner

Keeping in the theme, I made a little venison taco pizza--I don't think I've ever had that and I liked it a lot. Then we had venison tacos with all the trimmings