Day 170 Chocolate Cayenne Peppers

Today has been a pretty tasty day, after a lazy breakfast of biscuits and eggs, I hopped on over to my dad's house for lunch. My mom made taco salad and chocolate cake, which were both fabulous, we used some of the salsa, left over from last year for the salad...it was limey garlicky, good stuff!!  For dinner tonight, I made the squash I picked yesterday. Let me just say that I love, love, love patty pan squash, it has a really good flavor and it's pretty like a flower. The yellow squash were more like blossoms and were really flavorful as well. For dessert, I had two tomatoes, and I may have the banana pepper later. As far as peppers go, banana peppers are not my favorite, but perhaps I can find something interesting to do with it...I wonder if anyone has ever made a pepper bread? Like zucchini bread, only with a bit of a kick? I only have one on hand, so I would probably need a few more, but it is an idea worth exploring! I just had an idea along the lines of mixing peppers with sweets, a cayenne pepper, dipped in chocolate! Perfect! The cayenne's are really long and still green, so it may be a week or two before I can experiment, but I think it could work.
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Day 168 Ice Cream Extravaganza and Water Balloon Blowout

Today, we had an ice cream extravaganza at the park to welcome Summer and to spend a little time in the shade. OK, that was corny, there was no shade, it was actually very hot, so hot that the ice cream melted before we even found a picnic table and was basically a warmish liquidy ice cream party. We dropped a whole bag of water balloons and busted them, so we only had about twenty to play with. The ice cream eating contest ended after about five or six spoon fulls of runny Neapolitan and we finally threw the whole mess away and went to play on the monkey bars.
Tonight to kick off my staycation, I had green bean casserole and pink lemonade, a damn good kick off dinner if I ever saw one. Tomorrow, I must go and pick squash, it is time and I am looking forward to another round of fried squash goodness for this weekend's adventure. It is also getting close to salsa time, a time I very much look forward to, as I like to can things and pretend that I'm a prairie widow, canning for my survival against the harsh Oklahoma winters and cattle killing blizzards. Tomorrow, I make pie...stay tuned.
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Day 164 and 165 Starvin Like A Marvin

I'm back, after an unfortunate incident with my laptop power cord, today is a new day! Yesterday, my mom picked squash out of the garden and fried it up like a good Southern momma does, it was fabulous, I can't even begin to describe it. I also have a couple of hot peppers in my purse (in a baggie of course) which are not at all hot, I'm pretty sure my mom picked them too early and they kind of taste like green beans, perhaps they are green beans? Here's hoping that I'm educated enough to tell the difference between the two. There are plenty more peppers on the way though! Today, the first tomatoes were salad ready. I'm so hungry right now, I could eat my own face! I'm not even kidding, I could eat the calf and the cow and run the bull down, that's the level of starvation here. I was on the road most of the day and haven't gotten to chow much yet, so I'm about to get my homemade pizza on......just waiting for it to bake....just waiting. OK, I got nothing else here, I must put food in my mouth.
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