Shelby

Hot here, too. Needed pizza and beer.

Your well-wishes have really inspired my plants. I can't believe the growth in just the short time that has happened. I actually need to put supports around some of my tomatoes I'm going to plant some more corn in the spots where it died this week. The ones that lived look GOOD. Honestly everything looks amazing ( I mean...knowing that it was all hailed on ). I just picked and smashed some squash bugs. Little bastards. Scraped their eggs off of two leaves also.

I vote boneless chicken breast or pork tenderloin. The SV'ing, imo, makes either amazing.

WOW Franci, I'm with Anna. I know I'd pick your cooking hands down. Looks SO good.

Venison steaks that were unearthed from the freezer.

Oh I know....thinning is so hard to do. I hate it but it really does make a difference...as you know. It's like with my peony bushes. I sucker bud all of them which means you pick off and discard all but the main bud. It makes the flowers SO much bigger and beautiful...but it's hard to do it. Learned this from my mom who used to work at a peony farm.

Your daughter and her classmates are lucky kids, Franci!

I do it all the time. No problems.

WOW that meal looks amazing. Anything called "peekytoe" has got to be good

Oh my, everyone's plants look SO good! KAY! Lovely tomatoes. I can almost taste them. Sigh. I'm so jealous. Thank you Chris!!! We had another downpour yesterday--thankfully no hail. A bit of wind but I think everything survived. I don't want to say it out loud, but *the garden is looking a tiny bit better*<----------said in a whisper. Some of the corn is upright. The ones that aren't seem to still be growing ....will they still make ears? I dunno. The tomatoes have some new....tiny...but still...leaves on them as do the eggplants. I have new zucchini showing ( yeah, I'll get some in like October lol) The peppers....eh....they aren't dead. The okra is trying super hard. The garden looks like it should be April lol. The rabbits know that my husband has been out of town. There were NINE sitting in the driveway and putzing around the garden. NINE.

Scrambled farm eggs and peas from the garden.

Was on my own again and had a craving for spaghetti red. The bowl truly isn't as big as it looks lol.

No, mine sounds the same whether convection is on or off.

I can't even bring myself to open the links. My heart breaks for those poor dogs. I would rescue every single one if I could. I am very open-minded ( I think ) about other cultures and their eating habits, but I can't do this one.

Elsie, I'm craving a popover like that. Yours look perfect! Liuzhou, I am always envious when you get great seafood like that. I can almost taste the sweet freshness. On my own again last night. Normally I don't make anything at all but I wanted pizza. I also was able to pick some peas from the garden. Learned that when hail hits the pods and leaves even the tiniest hole, they get some type of mold inside sigh. But, I got enough to sprinkle over a little salad so that made me happy. Rotuts please ignore the black olives.

Gorgeous!

Kay, I love seeing everyone's harvest I might have to live vicariously through you so keep 'em comin' Jacksoup love the plums!!! I can just imagine how wonderful one tastes ...warm from the sun.....drooool....

Baron your meals are always so beautiful. I'd love to try one of those eggs. Chris and Sartoric, everything looks good but your salads are grabbing my eyeballs. Trout almondine and the last of the garden asparagus I had hoarded in the fridge.

A lot of people don't really care for okra but I do think it's a lot about how it's prepared. My husband used to hate the stuff until I fried some one day in a cornmeal type batter. He also tolerates it in gumbo. I love it all ways. Stewed tomatoes from the garden with okra yummmm.

Thanks everyone. Just got inside from a garden inspection. I see a tiny new leaf coming out on an eggplant so that's a good sign, right? Have to get up early tomorrow so I'll do some weeding then. I ordered more corn, some okra and 6 tomato plants yesterday. It stormed again in the late afternoon. Sigh. Nothing like the big storm, but still more rain. My plants are like "ok ok enough water already". Beautiful stuff Diana and Wayne. So lush looking.

I love salmon roe. It's lucky I wasn't there. I would have scraped that whole thing clean lol.

Thank you SO much for showing us all of this. Every picture had me leaning forward to soak it all in and I was saying "wow" "OH wow" "wow" over and over and over.

Thank you Elaina--and Kenneth and Deryn and Anna for commiserating with me. Oh, yes, I stood in the middle of the garden Thurs. morning and sobbed. A small pity party for one ensued lol. I'm debating planting--yet again--tomato plants if I can find any....but really most of me wants to just let the ones that are out there try to make it. If they do they do, if they don't they don't. I think I am going to order more Silver Queen I don't think it's too late to plant a bit more.

Thanks, Anna. I realize that I sound super negative. Sigh. It's just so much work to have it all ruined. Bright side is the peas are ok. Might go see if there are enough for dinner before it gets too hot. We planted --for like the 4th time lol--more squash yesterday. The existing ones got whipped around pretty good but...for what they went through, they don't look too bad. And, Ronnie had 4 more tomato plants in the greenhouse so we planted those, too. I weeded and sevin dusted everything yesterday. Then it stormed again in the middle of the night. I'm sure it rained just enough to knock all the sevin dust off lol.

I've missed you guys! We have been internet-less since Wednesday late afternoon. The heat index was 110 F that day and a whopper of a storm built on top of us. It rained 5-7 inches in ONE hour here. 60 mph winds steady with super high gusts. A funnel was spotted just west of my house but we weren't able to see it. It hailed for a good HOUR or more. Pea to quarter size hail. Irrigation was blown over (not mine thank GOD). The storm blew so hard that it caused water to get into the eaves of the house and flood the front room which is where all of my internet equipment is kept. Yeah. Fried it. I got up at daylight the next morning to survey the damage. I took pictures of the "garden" but it's just too depressing to post. All of the tomato plants were stripped. Cukes ripped out of the ground. My beautiful Silver Queen corn flattened. On and on and on. So, I went out yesterday and spent hours gently lifting plants out of the mud, removing all damaged leaves etc. The internet says that if plants have even just one leaf left that they can sometimes recover. I've never ever had such terrible damage. The weeds, however, remained unscathed. As I peer out the window this morning the corn actually looks better. It's beginning to stand up again.....we will see. I still have 22 acres of wheat yet to cut. Remains to be seen whether the hail knocked the kernels out out or not. My field corn was stripped but not laying down like a lot of folks' are around. I usually get at least one tomato around the 4th of July. Not this year.