We had a nice little soaker yesterday morning.
Standing at the back door
18 Seconds of Summer (audio only)
Soundtrack by Crickets, Cicadas, American Toads, Et al
The heat index will top 100F (38C) today. I'm staying inside.
We went to the farmers' market yesterday. I wanted to see if I could make an all-vegetable lasagna.
Zucchini "noodles" from the market, grown by a neighbor. The zuke was so huge, I had to trim the ends to squeeze it into the dish.
I layered the zucchini with tomato sauce, onions from our garden, broccoli, and kalamata olives; topped it with red and orange tomatoes from the market, and drizzled the whole shebang with homemade cashew "cheese" and pesto made with homegrown basil.
It turned out a little soupy. . . but healthy and wicked good!
It's time to start the countdown till first frost . . .
67 days!
11 comments:
We had our first day of really bad humidity...after a cooler than normal month of July...
I've made all veg. lasagna with eggplant before...in which case you salt the slices and set aside in order to draw out excess water...later rinse and pat dry...same might work for zucchini!
The meal looked very good to me!
Wanda, it's unusual for the humidity to hit so late and I should be grateful but it's soooo miserable!
I knew about salting eggplant but didn't think about it with zukes; I'll certainly try it!
Hi Jain
thanks for coming by and commenting on the pages you enjoyed. I'll reread them and respond to you here in case you never ever find my comments gain lost as they may be in the archives.
I often add layers of sweet potato or pumpkin to a vegetable lasagna, the sweet pot especially seems to bind it together...and is lovely with eggplant too...
I loved the noises in the forest. It sounded like a Qld summer night when cicadas break out their orchestra repertoire...
38 will be steamy...keep cool
Happy days
Delwyn, sweet potato and pumpkin both would be lovely here, I'll try them when they hit the markets.
I've just begun to catch up with your blog and will visit again soon!
Back again
I re-read your comments from way back...and am glad that you are enjoying some of the archives...it seems a waste to have all of our old stories sitting dormant doesn't it...that is until someone like you comes along and blows the dust off...
I never liked the link within idea until I tried it and it flashes up different connections all the time. I don't know how many others visit the links but I do! and feel the joy of the walk or memories over again.
I also send my elderly parents print outs of the posts I think that they will enjoy...so all the effort does seem valued..
We do have an exotic range of plants - well many natives that are amazing but lots of exotics in the true sense of that word too...
Nice to talk to you Jain...
Happy days
and for the third time
I just wanted to tell you that I began to read your blogs backwards, but got engrossed particularity because you have a river to look out on as I do...so I have decided I am going to wait for a good chunk of time and go right back to the beginning and read them in the proper sequence...I am looking forward to that...
Happy days
And another wonderful soundtrack. You should put them on a cd for us city dwellers so we can close our eyes and imagine ourselves in the countryside :)
Your dish looks yummy as usual, I think I'm going to try and copy it!
67 days seems very long, but it will probably pass very quickly. How time flies these days! I for one are looking forward to crispy cold days.
You've apparently had hotter weather up your way than I've had down here. Yesterday was the hottest in more than a month, but still never made it about 87.
Your veggie lasagna looks delish. I've made it before with zucchini, and when sliced thin and given the salt soak and dry pat treatment, found it worked great. I also must say that Delwyn's suggestion of adding sweet potatoes and pumpkin never occurred to me—though I often use one or the other or both to soups and stews. But I'll try it on lasagna, too.
Nice post. Loved the snippet of sounds.
Delwyn, it will be nice to compare our river stories!
I wish my mom (84 last month) had better computer access so she could read here. I just tried to cut-and-paste one of my entries into Word and it worked! I shall send her some posts. Thank you for the idea!
Jenny, glad you like the audio! I wish Blogger would accommodate longer clips but I've had bad luck over a minute. Most of my videos are really "audios" so I should consider an audio recorder. I really need one, anyway, to track my fiddle "progress."
Scribe, I don't know if it's really hotter here than there, I just have zero tolerance for it. Give me an icy snowbank...please! There's Yooper in my veins, for sure.
I'll try the salt-n-pat method on my zukes next time. I'm starting to fantasize about sweet potato or pumpkin lasagna. With cranberries? Wild rice, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg? Pumpkin seeds, sage, sausage? Just brainstorming here...
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