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No rain today which is a mixed blessing, but good for smoking a ham. With the ham spoiled brat will do, I am making fruit salad. We have so much fresh fruit in our fridge, also think I will have cauliflower and broccoli although I am getting a bit tired of two and I am mashing a sweet potato.
We got your rain early this morning. Thanks!
Today I am making copycat La Madeleine tomato basil soup from my neighbor's last batch of tomatoes for sale this season. I will freeze some of it. I serve it with baguette slices for dipping, and a green salad.
I'm totally sick of tomatoes yet know I will be wishing them back in like 3 weeks.
So my neighbor's husband said he'd like me to bring some of this soup to his daughter (because mom kept promising to make it, then forgetting to buy heavy cream), and therefore he wanted to give me the tomatoes for it, but "don't tell my wife." He brought me a quart jar of home-canned tomatoes he put up yesterday. He was so concerned his wife would find out, he made me put them in the car!
So I talked to him a while longer (I am very friendly with both husband and wife), paid for my couple pounds fresh tomatoes, and got up to say goodbye to the wife. As she walked me to the porch, I said that I'd be back soon with a little soup for her daughter. She then insisted that she MUST give me free tomatoes, overriding my weak protests. I had promised the husband I wouldn't tell on him for giving me the tomatoes, so I felt I had no choice but to take the wife's tomatoes too.
My answer to this moral dilemma is I will bring the daughter twice as much soup as I'd planned to. I think that's fair. I don't know whether he knows what happened on the porch or if I should ever mention it.
My friend said I have funny problems.
I'm going to make Strawberries and Blueberries Romanoff too.
Grilled Iowa pork chops!
Grilled Iowa corn on the cob! (small but just picked)
Iowa baked potato! (also small but just picked)
Small side salad (from store, but my 2nd crop of lettuce will be ready soon)
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batch of tomatoes for sale this season. I will freeze some of it. I serve it with baguette slices for dipping, and a green salad.
