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Dug a whole bunch of potatoes and pulled a bunch of onions a couple days ago. Some friends have green beans that are growing like crazy so they dropped some off. Beautiful beans. One of Ronnie's daughters works at a place that sells garden veggie plants among other things. Over the weekend she texted that they were getting ready to throw out all of the plants that didn't sell and asked if we wanted some. Ronnie told her maybe a couple of eggplants and a couple of peppers and tomatoes. She rolled up and her car was packed lol. We gave some to my friend and my brother and sister in law. I know it's late in the season, but what the heck. Why not plant them. Tomatoes Like flat after flat of all kinds of peppers. SHISHITO peppers!!! I planted like 12 of those. Also, cayenne, like 18 habanero, 18 white habanero, 18 Caribbean something or others, tobasco, bells....on and on and on. No one in their right mind needs this many hot peppers lol. Tons and tons of eggplants Basil and oregano I decided to pot instead of plant in the garden hoping they would last longer. Also, they are pretty. I think we planted around forty pepper plants. Jalapeño, shishito, cayenne, one habanero, a few bells. Oh and eight eggplants. My back is killing me.

Ronnie caught some nice catfish at the lake the other day. Greekish salad Okra and fish Green bean salad and spaghetti Cucumber salad and broccoli beef

Yes. I may need a 12 step program.

You're so nice! I need to be like you and try new recipes. I'm just so blah that the same old things are easier.

I love @Kim Shook's posts always! @btbyrdI had forgotten about that new pasta shape. I remember having the window open for days when I was trying to decide whether to buy some. I am a pasta freak, but I didn't order. Wish I would have now because yours looks so good. @Ann_TThat shrimp looks like it just jumped out of the water and into the cocktail. I'd love some of that right now. I've been terrible about planning dinner lately. UGH. My appetite hasn't been great for some reason so that's a lot of the reason....or maybe I'm just so sick of my own cooking lol. Found a smallish pork butt in the freezer so I threw it in the pressure cooker with the usual suspects to make pork enchiladas with. Have a lot leftover that went back into the freezer for an easy meal. Also made a double batch of enchilada sauce so that's frozen too. My go-to when I have nothing thawed out: Wings. Hot wings, the first okra, squash etc. from the garden. Salad and venison cheeseburger pizza. Yesterday, although still hot was thundery and raining all day. The only thing that sounded good was lamb stew. So that's what happened.

Imperfect A couple of the poblanos got majorly beat up....but the rest are gorgeous again. I didn't order the peanuts. I didn't get the sourdough loaf or the jalapeños that I did order. Kind of disappointing because I have a ton of roasted peanuts.....but, the mood I'm in today, I don't feel like complaining. I can't remember if there is a place online to choose letting them replace an item or just not getting the item at all. Misfits I tried the fish-meat option this week. 4 ice packs were in there along with a very insulated bag. Ice packs were all still frozen. Shrimp were frozen. Yellowtail was mostly frozen. Of course, I haven't eaten any yet, but very satisfied with how it shipped in summer heat.

I LOVE these.

I hope you continue to post about your experiences. I like knowing the good and the bad and I think others do too. I've said before that I thought I wouldn't buy anything during the summer months but here in KS the lettuce is almost done due to heat...I don't grow celery etc. So, it's still a welcome option to have especially now that both places have options such as pasta etc. that you can round out your order to meet the minimum price.

Thanks Anna. Every single person that I've had contact with goes out of their way to be kind and also they tell me how much they appreciate me. I kind of get the impression that some customers are not so .......how should I put it.....calm and or maybe respectful. I used to deal with unhappy customers--even when they really had no reason to be--so maybe that plays into it lol.

Cheaper on some counts. Definitely helps prevent waste. I can't order produce and get it delivered from Walmart or anyone else for that matter. Even before pandemic I wished for a place like this. But now especially...it keeps us away from people. I guess it is in the eye of the beholder...... I try to post the positives along with the negatives. Maybe I'm not doing a good job of accentuating the good things.

NICE! I hope this happens to me soon.

No, it doesn't slide off at all. I take the SV'd chicken out of the bag and place in a bowl of buttermilk mixed with an egg--if I'm low on eggs, I'll skip the egg. Then I dump some AP flour in a large ziplock along with Lawry's salt and a good amount of black pepper. Mix that up. Take chicken pieces out of buttermilk, drop in the bag. Zip it up. Shake. Heat up the shallow oil. Fry.

Me again. Imperfect This didn't go well. The box shipped on June 3oth and didn't arrive until July sixth. Everything was very warm, of course. Wasn't even going to open the turkey. I'll eat a lot of things ....but no, not doing that. I had sent them an email on Saturday the 3rd--that's when the box was supposed to arrive--to give them a heads up that I was sure something was wrong. Fedex sent me a notification that the box would be here on Sunday--which was also July 4th. No way was that going to happen, and it didn't. Anyway, I got a refund for the shipping, plus the turkey. I should have also sent a picture of the strawberries. I didn't open them up before I sent the email and I thought they were ok. They weren't. Slimy and brown. Ick. Anyway, again, excellent customer service. Very kind people. I am not going to order any meat products again from them until it's cooler--like this fall. This was Fridays Imperfect delivery. I don't know if it's because they changed my ordering time and date or if it's because of the problem the week before, but I got my box a day early. All good here. The peaches are excellent. I've placed a Misfits order for this coming week. They offer some meat and fish products now and I am thinking they are packing their meats etc. with more ice or even dry ice. I have shrimp and some yellow fin coming. We will see how that goes.

Been a bit. Seems like I'm always running late with dinner these days so I forget to take pictures some nights. Over the 4th of July weekend roasted chicken with potatoes from the garden done under the chicken. Cucumbers, onions from the garden and the first garden tomato. Broccoli, bacon, cheddar, red onion salad too. We have mulberry trees around our property. I can't get to them due to the wilderness of poison ivy that grows around them. Ronnie went for me and picked the other day. Best we've had in years. Absolutely no bugs or worms. Not as big as @shain's are, but they never are. I've had purple fingers for days lol Mulberry, strawberry, blackberry and blueberry crisp Sous vide and then fried chicken Squash from the garden I made sort of a greek-ish dressing and did a cucumber, olive, tomato, roasted pine nut salad thing. Was going to add feta but it looked like blue cheese so I tossed it lol. Fried fishing baby squash with flowers to go with. Venison quesadillas, RG beans and stuffed poblanos Steak night last night. Ronnie grilled. Padron peppers, garden potatoes and @Jaymes's squash And more mulberries! Ronnie picked yesterday afternoon. Another mulberry crisp

Purple is my favorite color so I like it!

Well that sucks. Bizarre that they would do that.

OMG!!! Wow. Didn't expect that.

@Franci Can I borrow your kids...I'm not in the mood to cook. Plus, I can tell they cook way better than me! @liamsauntThanks for the recipe. I also want to try this soon. I have some really thin pieces of salmon and this seems like a good way to use them. I did a chicken in my Ninja the other night. High pressure for ten minutes and then four hundred degrees on the air crisp setting for about 12-15 mins. Just as tender as the CSO....and I didn't have to cover the top so that it didn't burn. But, there is good and bad in everything. Dragging the Ninja out...the cleaning etc. Had tons of leftover chicken and some beautiful poblano peppers. So, chicken\onion\pepper quesadillas and chiles rellenos. Best rellenos I've made. I did the sauce the day before. Stuffed them with sharp cheddar, jalapeño jack and a bit of mozzarella and then froze them for about thirty mins. Did the trick and all the cheese didn't run out before they were fried. I don't do these often because they are a pain, but oh they are good. RG beans on the side. Big salad to use up more chicken. The first of the Yukon gold potatoes...excellent. Yeah...probably weird to put on a salad , but it worked.

I just drooled. My okra looks so much better than last year so I'm hoping to do exactly as you have pictured a LOT this summer. I only got one tiny portion last year.

SO pretty!

Me neither dang it.

Imperfect Foods. Got an email telling me they are changing my order time. Now it's the exact same day and time as Misfits. I think they should combine themselves lol. No problems this time except one item didn't ship. I HATE complaining but I also hate paying for things that I didn't get lol. The poblanos are gorgeous.

GORGEOUS

We had a huge storm last night. Over sixty mph winds and over 3 inches of rain in like an hour. Hence the downed tree sigh. I snapped a few pictures of the garden lest you guys think I don't have one this year. I should have done it a lot sooner. The potato plants were gorgeous. The flowers! First time planting russet and Yukon gold. The first golds! I think this is a cantaloupe There are going to be lots of those and watermelons....if things keep going the way they are. Okra patch. Doing MUCH better than last year. Cucumbers Three hundred onions almost ready to harvest. The storm was so strong it blew some of them out of the ground. 55 tomato plants. Two of which I'm not sure are going to make it. And the monster horseradish that I need to do some serious reading up on when to harvest, how to harvest etc. I can't wait to have sinus blowing horseradish sauce.

@Norm MatthewsI remember you talking about that bakery before. That looks so delicious I might need to place an order! @liuzhouI need to remember this for duck season. Do you make and\or purchase the pancakes --forgive the lack of the question mark. Certain keys such as that and the number six have decided to quit working on my laptop. I have a plug in keyboard but I'm currently too lazy to go get it lol. More fried fish and fries Garden is starting to produce a little. Had the first little cucumbers--managed to get them before the dogs did--and make a little cherry tomato type salad along with chicken roasted on top of little red potatoes from the garden. Salmon from Imperfect Foods. Yes, it's the thin pieces but still good as long I don't over cook it which is easy to do! Along with cheese ravioli and the first zucchini from the garden.