"because life is too short to eat crappy food"…Yes!Chef!
Well, today is National Watermelon Day. What a coincidence that I happened to make Watermelon Gazpacho yesterday and it is perfectly chilled and ready to eat tonight. It’s quite warm here in the Sierras, so maybe it will help cool us off.
There are two things I look forward to in the summertime: Farmers Markets and Great Tasting Tomatoes. It seems like I can’t seem to get enough of either. I try to go to the Farmers Market as often as possible and I can’t resist the tomatoes (both buying them and taking pictures of them.) So it’s natural that I would make Gazpacho with them. Well, maybe it would not be natural to anyone else, but it was natural to me.
We all scream for ice cream, is how that saying is supposed to go. However, I am now 1 for 3 as far as ice cream goes (1 win to 2 losses). So, now every time I tell my fam that I’m thinking about making ice cream, I think they all do a silent scream.
Yesterday Brown (UPS) brought me a package that I had ordered from Amazon.com last week. I was pretty excited about it and I was anxious to use it in a photo. What was it?
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It had been a long day of work-outside-in-the-yard for Y!C! on Saturday. We ordered some useful-yet-decorative cement blocks for the yard, so Y!C! and my youngest son hauled those around to make our yard look a bit more tidy.
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I have been very excited to write about this recipe ever since seeing it on Pioneer Woman (Food Network) this past weekend and then making it that very day. Blackberry Cobbler brings back memories from my childhood. Growing up in Placerville, CA (which is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas near Tahoe), it was hot and dry in the summer. Perfect weather for blackberry bushes. In fact, most people around here consider them a nuisance because they can very quickly take over huge chunks of land. I have one in my yard that keeps trying to grow and take over and I keep whacking it back.
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