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Why I love summer.....

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It may be hot and the mosquitoes are thick. The humidity is so high you have to swallow everytime you inhale or you might drown....but tonight we will be having squash and onions, sliced tomatoes (still warm from the sun) black-eyed peas with homemade pepper jelly and green beans. All home grown and picked this evening. Maybe I'll make some zuchinni bread for dessert!
 

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Nice, Terri! What we have here is all sand. The natives call it "dirt" but I don't think they've ever SEEN real DIRT. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

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From a western Pennsylvania ~garden~~!
 
The one thing I'm looking forward to when we get home from europe - fresh vegetables from Jerri's garden!
 
Here in Central VA, it's almost TOMATO TIME! Yes, it's the time of year when the famous Hanover (i.e., Hanover Co., VA, NW of Richmond) tomatoes become available. They are delectible: large, meaty, with a wonderful texture and flavor. I've never tasted better tomatoes anywhere, and trust me, I've tried many.

Roadside vendors near Hanover County's small farms are among the first to offer them in late June. Mostly elderly farmers who sell their carefully tended tomatoes and fresh vegetables from a small covered roadside hut. Later, select small grocers in surrounding counties sell them. I've never seen them more than a hundred miles from Hanover County. The big box grocery stores never get them. I guess they can't buy them in large volume.

Hanover tomato nutballs like me know exactly where to look, I actually drive about 60 miles (each way) on weekends for a couple weeks early in season to obtain them. This is also a veiled excuse to ride the back roads, and we have some singularly lovely drives here.

This signals the REAL start of summer to me. I can easily consume 3 or 4 large Hanovers daily. If they were even slightly toxic, I'd have died decades ago.

Fried green ones are heavenly. I'm sure folks in heaven are rewarded with an endless supply . . .
 
Summer vacation dinners in New England, every night,

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Durned thing is out of focus though, dang it

...and ice cream
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Ummm... that lobster's defective. Outta focus. I volunteer to take it off yer hands! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

I'm droolin' just thinkin' about it.
 
DrEntropy said:
...What we have here is all sand. The natives call it "dirt" but I don't think they've ever SEEN real DIRT. ...
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We have plenty of it here - it keeps the rocks from bangin' together - except we call it "dut".

The gardens here have started to produce with the folks with greenhouses getting a head start. I've mentioned the CSA deal we're involved in (CSA = "Community Supported Argiculture") where we prepay to buy a "share" in the crop. We're also expected to work a bit - I'm their metalworker which means greenhouse vents and the like. So far, it's been a great deal. The stuff's grown about a mile away and usually picked the day I go get it. Ours happens to be organic, which is a big thing around here. Tastes 100% better than store bought. I'm not a big veggie person but this arrangement kind of forces me to eat the things. It's a good way to keep the weight off, etc.

Re the lobsters, during summer, even one of our local MacDonald's sells lobster rolls.
 
DrEntropy said:
Ummm... that lobster's defective. Outta focus. I volunteer to take it off yer hands! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
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Maybe it was drunk!
 
vagt6 said:
Here in Central VA, it's almost TOMATO TIME!.... This signals the REAL start of summer to me. I can easily consume 3 or 4 large Hanovers daily. If they were even slightly toxic, I'd have died decades ago.

Fried green ones are heavenly. I'm sure folks in heaven are rewarded with an endless supply . . .
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Ours are called Big Boys and Arkansas Travelers. I had a bacon and tomato sandwich for breakfast, sliced tomatoes for lunch and another bacon and tomato sandwich for dinner!

I love fried green tomatoes but only if they accidently fall off during picking (I hate to pick them green cause then they don't ripen)

I even named my car is named for one of the main characters in the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
 
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