Shelby

Sigh, I'm sad that it's over. Thank you so much for sharing. I can pretty much promise that I will never get to travel there, so you are a great window to another part of the world!

Not acceptable for me either.

I wanted a nice, soft white bread for making BLT's and tomato and bologna sandwiches. I haven't cut into this yet, but I think it fits the bill. I used the same recipe that Anna used a while back from King. A. Flour.

Fresh peach and blueberry pie.

Those are cute, Kay! I've never been able to make rice krispy treats. They always come out SUPER tough.

I had a hankering for calzones. I spent most of the day in the kitchen on various projects so I figured calzones would fit right in. My husband doesn't care for ricotta cheese so I used cottage cheese, egg and parm. with thick slices of fresh mozz. I sautéed some onions and mushrooms along with ground pork and spinach. The insides were excellent...the outside, not so much. I used my pizza crust recipe. It's great for pizza, not for calzones. I must do a bit of research before I try again. On the up side, I brought out some of the homemade pesto for topping and my husband liked it. Pesto is another thing that I thought he didn't like. Apparently I'm dredging up husbands from a past life or something.

Oh Elaina, I know it was hard work picking but dang, that all sounds SO good. And how great will that be in the middle of winter?! Good job! I haven't googled, but I just made a peach blueberry pie and it thickened up nicely. Do blueberries have enough natural pectin to not have to add any?

Breakfast 'fer us last night

Oh nice! Could you tell, were they the "younger" more white pods or the darker ones? On mine the darker were kind of like empty shells...some of them anyway. Not empty, but filled with like fungus dust if that makes sense. My husband went out to our field corn to look today. I could pick a ton of "Mexican truffle corn" if I wanted to. It's been a super wet year so I suppose that's why. I read online that most corn fields have 5-10% of the crop turn to smut (sorry, that's what we call it 'round here ) Edited to add: My husband wants to try them in a beer batter and fried...like a fried mushroom. I thought they would be great in a stroganoff......

I LOVE your soup FauxPas. I have a whole bag of frozen parm. rinds that I need to use. Thanks for a great idea to use summer veggies! What kind of dried beans did you use? What shape of pasta, macaroni? I can't see for sure from the pic.

I think I want to get one of those, too. I used a thin tea towel and it was a pain in the butt.

Venison cheeseburgers last night. And, the stars of the show, straight from the garden, Silver Queen corn, 'maters and fried okra. The burgers were super good, but I only ate a few bites. I was busy scarfing down the veggies.

Obviously, I have no idea what I'm doing here. After quite a long time reading online, I riffed off of the most basic recipe. I know it's not authentic, but it does taste good. Literally, they pick up flavors like a mushroom (imo). I gave my husband a taste and he deemed that "it was good, but a bit slimy". I asked if he would like it better in an enchilada with chicken and he said that he would. So, I'm cooling this off and then I'm going to freeze it. It will be a fun treat in the middle of winter for sure. All in all, I had a good time experimenting. I'd love to hear what I did wrong/right as I don't have any real life reference to go off of. Here's a small pictorial: I picked another smut-less ear of Silver Queen to add in. Wow, it's good. You really don't even need to cook it. But I digress....

I just did a more thorough check and I found another one. This one has "whiter" fungus. I hope ALL my corn isn't doing this....but it's kinda fun to find something unexpected. Farmers around here would absolutely be devastated if this happened to their crop (yes, I know they spray so it doesn't happen) so I can't let it get out that I'm gonna eat it LOL. Tastes like a sweet corn mushroom. I like it.

Cool! How do you make that happen on purpose? I read that its a lot to do with how humid it is. Are you growing them in your green house? Any tips or cooking suggestions?

Dcarch, you scared me at first. Here is a closer up picture. Newman is keeping a close eye on it. He believes it is some kind of alien life form.

Yes. I'm going to try. If I die, I'll at least have tried something new.

I think so I asked on the huit. thread. I'm currently in google land so I can figure out what to do with it.

Found this ear of sweet corn in the garden last night. Is this huitlacoche? Sure looks like it to me......

Currant jelly?! .....or maybe Kerry needs a good swaddling......

Ooooh, Paul, I do love monkfish. Been a while since I've had any. We had fish sandwiches Wednesday night (in celebration of Sharknado 3 showing. Yes. I love me some Sharknado. So bad, it's good) Ann's wings the night before And last night a little shrimp and pasta

"Rats in sportcoats" We don't have chipmunks around here. I'm not sure why. Lots of this going on. Lots of picking. A lot of loss of counter space (I'm NOT complaining). Really good tomato year (so far). Okra plants are happy because the weather has gotten extremely hot and humid. Discovered this happened to one of my ears of sweet corn.

DYING to know what you think.

Welcome Charlie!

Thanks! It does look delicious. Is there any reason why one shouldn't peel the tomatoes? I'm not a peel fan.