Summertime, and the Eating is Easy!!

I love summertime meals, the food seems fresher, lighter

and just a little bit easier.

Thats not to say I don't love those winter "comfort food" meals...I do,

maybe even more.

A roast, sauce or soup in the crockpot, yum,

but, for me, whatever season we are in, it's a cooking favorite of mine.

Summertime means fresh produce,

and nothing lights me up more than that.

If you have not eaten, excuse yourself now,

this is a food heavy post...no hunger complaints at the end,
you've been warned!!

This was a fan favorite from the garden.

Fingerling eggplant, diced fresh tomatoes, sweet onions,

shallots, butter and olive oil for sauteing,

salt, pepper and I toasted bread crumbs for the top.

This was really good,

I served it over rice and it would be great over pasta.

Pasta with meatballs and sauce, fresh basil from the garden.

Cucumber sandwiches with cucumbers and fresh dill from the garden.

Jersey corn on the cob, not from "my" garden but from someone's garden.

Summer would not be the same without it.

Tomato and cucumber salad, from the garden.

Poppy seed dressing, yum!!

And those bowls...are they not adorable!?

There were lots of BLT's so far this summer,

only the "T" came from the garden, but that's o.k.

We have been overcome with tomatoes.

And several of these meals where nothing came from the garden.

This is the hubs gift to me,

he makes the meal and calls me when it's ready.

Now here's a little something, not from the garden,

not very healthy but very yummy...

Trashy Tater Tots

Thawed tater tots stuffed with a very small piece of cheese.

Wrapped with half a piece of bacon,

rolled in brown sugar, bake until browned.

Checkout the video, here, if you are interested,

I omitted the hot sauce!!
The ones on the left are plain, just in case we didn't like the trashy ones,
but trashy was better... 
* wink *

 There has also been a big ole' pot of chicken noodle soup...

and one meatloaf that fed us for three dinners.

Here's one of the meatloaf days, I served it with rice and the 

sauted vegetables I pictured first!!

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