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 169 Perfect Saturday

Today was a pretty fabulous day and I even had a picture to prove it, but for some reason, I am unable to send it to my computer from my phone. So, this morning, I started out, sleeping in, I ate some leftover green bean casserole for breakfast, read a little true crime, and then took nap. When I finally emerged from my lazy morning, I went to my mother's to forage around in the garden and came away with a really big patty pan squash, some yellow squash, a huge bannana pepper, and some cherry tomatoes. My mom and I ate the tomatoes while they were still warm from the vine, best tomatoes ever! Later in the afternoon, my brother and I went to the bookstore and schlepped around for awhile and I ended the day eating fried potatoes and watching the Walton's with my mom. At the moment, I am having a glass of lemonade, I have a People magazine, which arrived today, a Mental Floss magazine from the bookstore, and a new John Grisham, I have yet to read. I am prepared for my staycation, as far as food and books go...what more do I need?
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Day 156 Gonna Fry Up A Patty Pan

Here I sit, with my hard work reward, a box of Charleston Chews and a cold bottle of MIO water. I have worked hard, I have worked long and my work here is done. I had a lovely lunch with my Grandmother, who made beans and cornbread for a little after church hallelujah. After that, I went to the office to make sure that everything is on the up and up for tomorrow's peer review, and now I'm relaxing in the ice cold comfort of my living room, kicked back in my cozy overstuffed chair...life is decent. I haven't event thought about what I plan to eat tomorrow, but I hear that there may be cake somewhere in the vicinity of the audit site. If it's there, I will find it, yes I will. The days are inching closer to vacation time and I am looking forward to unleashing my pent up creativity, both in the kitchen and in the art of the written word.
In other news, my mother says that we have a wave of squash heading our way and I am too excited to get out there and see it. The patty pan is growing the fastest and to tell you the truth, I've never had patty pan squash, I need to go in search of some fabulous recipes for the little fellers. Here's to squash, vacations, summer, and turtles, I'm pretty keen on those right now. Anyway, here's to all of it!
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Day 146 Bust Out The Charcoal I'm Bringing The K'bobs

Today, I went out to look at my garden and cannot believe how great everything looks! The squash plants are really spreading out nicely and we are going to have so much, we'll have to share some of it. We have yellow squash, patty pan squash, zucchini, you name it, if it's squash, we have it. I want to live in the garden, I love the way it smells, I love the dirt, I wish I could just stay out there and watch everything grow, maybe roll around in it...sigh.
Tonight, I'm thinking about the three day weekend and the food that shall ensue, if my mom has a cookout, I'm making grilled vegetables! Back in Indiana, we used to eat at this place called the Rock Wall, they served local stuff, lots of vegetarian options, and all very fresh, not long out of the ground. Anyway, they used to make these fat, grilled tomatoes and serve them with basil and mozzarella, they were like eating steak, that's how good they were. Perhaps, I will throw some of those in the ring, along with grilled corn, onions, and mushrooms. Veggie bobs could work as well, I love grilling holidays!
Oh, ya for dinner I had cold sesame seaweed salad, just thought everyone should know, I love seaweed and I am not ashamed, everyone should try seaweed, it's crunchier than you think.
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