I’m finally getting tomatoes in my CSA box–they seem exceptionally late this year. Another farmer occasionally sets up shop out of the back of his pickup truck in the same parking lot where I pick up my goods every week, and I’m more likely than not to add some extras to my produce selection from [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Tomato Envy
Posted in CSA, Eats, tagged CSA, food, grandparents, tomatoes on July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
More eggplant excitement
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged cooking, CSA, eggplant, eggplant Parmesan, food, garlic, Italian, pasta, sun-dried tomatoes, tomato on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe I ignored eggplant until this summer. This weekend’s creation was much simpler than Eggplant Parmesan, taking probably a third of the time to make and leaving me with no baked-on cheese to scrub away. I was worried that my half-Italian, tomato-living husband wasn’t going to touch the weird-looking Eggplant Pasta Sauce that [...]
As Pictured Below: Go and get yourself some cheap sunglasses
Posted in Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged cats, husband, summer, sunglasses, Target on July 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Fine. I’m rough on sunglasses. I drop them, lose them and leave them on the edge of the kitchen counter, allowing cats to do gravity experiments on them. My go-to plan for sunglasses has always been to simply keep a couple of cheap pairs lying around. My husband, who has had the same unharmed expensive [...]
A Quick Trip to the Bat Cave
Posted in Photographs, Travel, tagged alabama, bats, batyaking, canoe, caves, Guntersville Dam, iPhone, kayaking, Lake Guntersville, North Alabama, Sauta Cave, TiltShiftMaker, Toy Camera on July 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We finally made it to Lake Guntersville to see the bats emerging from Sauta Cave at dusk last weekend. We missed the group “batyaking” trip due to the husband working overtime, but since we had been waiting for nearly a year to see these bats (they only do their massive-flight thing during the summer), we [...]

