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David, those are gorgeous. Pretty enough they could be pork. We cooked a couple of T-bones and grilled some corn, shucked, buttered, salted and wrapped in foil. I had mine with sliced tomatoes. Just excellent.

I've had burgers and hot dogs there, but I'm not crazy about them. Love the onion rings, and they have a great array of fountain drinks and shakes. And a kids meal with a grilled cheese sandwich that my grandson dearly loves, thus the after-church stop. I had an In 'n Out burger when i was in Phoenix, as I thought I ought to. I wasn't that impressed. The sauce is good, though.

Homemade yogurt, homemade granola, blueberries from the Farmers' Market. Significant volume of coffee.

Sonic onion rings. Of which a medium order (6 BIG rings) has 560 calories, I found after I'd consumed them. Gonna be a light dinner for me. Steaks will wait until tomorrow.

That was our year last year. Strawberries weren't good, and season was really short, because of so much rain. Ditto tomatoes. So far this year it's been decent; more rain than needed, but not enough to flood me, at least, out, though some folks haven't been as lucky. I have friends who normally cut hayfields three times a year, and got ONE cutting last year.

Cookout-the-first for the long weekend (there will be at least one, and potentially two, more, depending upon what the weather does). We had family cookout with the kids, who requested burgers, so burgers we had. I had mine without the bun, and with sides of potato salad, jail slaw, deviled eggs, baked beans and pickles. I thought the egg tray looked nice. In the center are pickled green beans I did last week. Dessert was blackberry cobbler, baked in a deep-dish pie plate, as my usual cobbler dish was in use baking beans. Wasn't sure whether to post it in lunch or dinner, as we had it about 2:30. I don't expect I'll be eating dinner, anyway!

Love it when the farmers' market is in full swing. New potatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, peas. Blueberries, peaches, tomatoes, cinnamon rolls (this is a paper picnic plate full, about the size of what you'd bake in an 8-inch or 9-inch cake pan. Five bucks. Can't beat it.) And two of the biggest cabbages I've ever seen. They were a bit more than 10 pounds, together. I'm going to make sauerkraut this weekend. Single disappointment was the peas. They were either too old or had been picked too long. Woody and not very good.

According to the jug, active ingredients are "putrescent egg solids" (love the highfalutin' pseudonym for rotten eggs), garlic, lime, and thyme oil. Allegedly, there's another one out there on the market that contains coyote urine. I do not want to contemplate how they collect THAT. Really not looking forward to applying this.

Pork chop in balsamic vinegar and honey sauce, likely the last of the season's asparagus, and roasted new potatoes. Hurry-up curry: Shrimp, snow peas, spices in coconut milk, over basmati rice.

Tomatoes! A Park Whopper hybrid. Romas Luxuriant squash vines And as soon as we dry out from the current monsoon, I'm prepared to take on the marauding rabbits.

Going to try that ribeye and @cyalexa's Vidalias in gochujang and honey, wrapped in bacon, this weekend. Photos to come.

@huiray, that looks absolutely lovely. One day, I will cook morels. You just never see them this far south.

Welcome! Anxious to share some of your cuisine ideas!

Oooh. I have the makings for that. May be on the menu for dinner tonight!

Will happily step back from the barricades to enjoy cake for breakfast, @Anna N, if that is not entirely too thin-stretched a literary metaphor...

@Okanagancook, would you post for us an address where we can send donations to add to the fundraiser's total?

Beautiful, Tere. A few of my bunny-butchered green beans sprouted some more leaves, but the damn rabbits ate them, too. Going tomorrow to get some "liquid fence" rabbit repellent and some more seed; I still have plenty of time to plant a later crop of beans when it dries up from the 5 inches of rain we got today. Hoping the garden hasn't washed completely away (it was still raining a little while ago). Before the deluge, I was up to 10 small Romas on my plants, as well as the two Park Whopper hybrids and four or five yellow cherry tomatoes. Nothing yet on the Bradleys, the other hybrid (I forget its name), or the red grape tomato. Yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers are growing vigorously, but no blooms yet. Herb garden is thriving. Pictures when it dries out.

Welcome, Craig, from another home cook. You'll learn a lot here -- I surely have!

I was going to say, I'm not sure, as you can't see from the drive-through....

That's gorgeous. No pics, but I was on a road trip this weekend that included barbecue for lunch Friday; stewed pork neckbones over rice, greens and sweet potatoes (soul food!) on Saturday, and a fried oyster po'boy with spinach instead of the lettuce or cabbage on Sunday. (That does not even speak to the Delta hot tamales on Friday night, or the kibbie and grape leaves on Saturday. I may not eat for a week.)

I will testify that there is NOTHING any better in the donut world than a hot Krispy Creme fresh from glazing (they turn the light on in the window to signify when there are fresh, hot donuts). However, Dunkin has the best coffee going.

Two words: Grill Grates. Best thing EVER to prevent flare-ups. Will do. This week, sometime.

Oh...dear...sweet...baby...Jesus. I am SO doing this. On the grill. As a side to a perfectly medium rare ribeye. Kill me now.

Looks balanced to me. Green, yellow and white, with some red for good measure.

Waffle with homemade ricotta and apple butter canned last fall. Unfortunately, no indigo bunting. But I did have a five-year-old, who's been my breakfast, lunch and dinner guest for the past three days, and has been helping in the kitchen. She makes a mean meatball.