Shelby

Venison steak on the grill, mashed 'tater casserole, corn, zoodles and 'maters.

This year the garden is like it was years ago. A good producer. Especially the tomatoes. My peppers? Not so much. Too much rain? I dunno, but they are not doing well. I've gotten some nice jalapeños and a few bananas...not one bell. But, I'm not complaining. I'll take the tomatoes over peppers any day. My counters are full. I've canned 13 quarts of 'maters and 4 quarts of juice so far. It must be perfect tomato growing conditions because we are getting HUGE ones. From all different plants. This one is the biggest weighing in at 1.66 lbs.

I love a good Jucy Lucy, Suzi! Need to make one of those before summer ends. I'm NOT ready in the least for summer to end....it seems like it's flying by. I always get a bit maudlin when Kerry and Anna are done with their trip We were hungry for chicken on the rotiss. So, in keeping with Kay's Southern theme, we had chicken, mashed 'taters, gravy, Silver Queen, stewed tomatoes and okra and 'maters on the side.

I'm glad I'm not the only person that has bacon leavings LOL. Oh Chinese sounds so good right now. It's times like this that I almost wish I lived in a city.....almost..... Heck, I'd pay for delivery to here if someone would do it..... Glad you guys are home safe and sound!

I made pizza last night and had some leftover dough so breakfast pizza for us this morning. I used some leftover bacon along with onions, peppers, mushrooms and 'maters.

I know it's been a rough year for you. I'm so glad she's back And, she'll get to see your new place! Don't worry, you're a great cook and you'll do fabulous. Maybe you should skip putting some of that soy garlic out though.......

Count me in on the duck idea. Sounds GOOD. YAY!!! I'm so glad your friend is coming home!!!

SO beautiful, Jo! Your okra plants look different from mine....healthier!

Thanks, as always, for taking us all along. Safe travels and we'll see you when you get home

I see. Well, yeah, that makes you enjoy your cocktails even more when you can have them

What??? Home means no cocktails??

THAT is some smart planning.

That brisket looks awesome, Norm. Patrick, one can NEVER be bored looking at delicious pasta like you're showing! Baselerd, for a second there I thought that was a watermelon tomato salad. Oh that fish looks so fresh. I'm jealous. Liuzhou, I read about that garlic on your blog. I think it sounds wonderful. Might have to try making some of that. Venison tostadas last night.

I think you and I would get along famously, Anna Yep, it's 5:00 somewhere.

So, we've all seen Grumpy Cat. The other day I saw Grumpy Dog......... Now, we have Grumpy Tomato His expression never changed....no matter what group of peers I put him with......

Every once in a while dinner becomes extra super good....last night was super good. It was National Wing Day, so I had to make AnnT's lemon/pepper/sea salt wings. I also wanted to make LiamsAunts pesto zoodles. I honestly didn't miss the pasta....and that's big for me to say. Then, I was perusing around looking for new ways to fix cucumbers and ran across a Julia Child recipe. Wow. I was impressed. Baked cucumbers. I highly recommend trying. I only had fresh dill for herbs....well, I also had some basil, but I thought dill sounded better.

I roasted it over the gas burner on my stove and put it in spag. sauce. Gives it a nice smokey flavor. BUT, I swear the next ones I get are gonna be babaganoush. Froze some Silver Queen yesterday, too.

Spinach, mushroom and sausage manicotti with a bit of pesto.

I skin them all before canning and making sauce. I do the quick flash dip in the boiling water method. Ohhhhh your corn will be great like that.

FIGS OH FIGS. Hummingbird, eat one for me....the best one of the bunch and savor it.

Glad you joined up!

Pretty much the haul I'm getting every morning. Tomatoes are on most surfaces of the kitchen lol. I'll be making some spaghetti sauce to freeze today and then by Friday I'll be canning 'maters. I picked some basil to make more pesto and a few ears of corn to cut and and freeze so that we have a taste of summer when it's snowing.

BLT's on homemade bread, fried okra and green tomato (it accidentally fell off of the vine....I can't fathom picking a green tomato on purpose this time of year ) and silver queen. Man, summer is good.

Ooooh that's pretty.