a few of my favorite things

2 of my fav things.....cote sud magazine ( french mag with the most amazing photography).....

french rose wine......lovely afternoon.....

our 4th hot dog party

boy was the 4th hot!!! hotweather....hot peeps....and lots of HOT dogs....we did our 2nd annual ode to the wonderful hot dog. hot dogs around the world(the idea taken from bon appetit mag last year)

they showed 80 different ones...we stuck w/ 5!

#1 chilean.....avocado,mayo,tomato

#2 cobb......chopped iceberg, tomatoes, bacon, blue cheese dressing

#3 carolina.....coleslaw, mustard, onion

#4 trailer park......melted velveeta cheese, crushed potato chips (my fav)

#5 chicago......mustard, onion, sweet relish, dill pickle spear, tomato wedges, pickled hot pepper, celery salt.....no you did hard chicago people it wasn't totally authentic.....no lime green relish or poppy sees bun.....but we tried...and it was good!

and a wonderful and pretty blueberry, blackberry pie....by Jenn RN....CONGRATULATIONS GIRL!

NEXT DAY......regular and hot italian sausage kebabs......yummy!

Hot Afternoon...Hungry...What to eat?

Salad all from Hillbilly! Iceberg lettuce, Baucom's Best Chicken Tenders, Corn cut off of the cob, cucumber Thomas picked for me out of our garden, John's Island Homegrown Tomatoes, Ripe Avocado and Peppercorn Ranch Dressing mixed with Amish Wedding Foods Hot Salsa. So Good. The only thing it was missing were some tortilla chips crumbled over top! Great tex-mex salad for a hot summer afternoon.

catch of the day

fried perch straight form the water....

food

cuban sandwiches and chicken/radish salad.....

hot weekend

what a fun and hot weekend...we celebrated my grand-daughter's BD....had friends and lot's of kids there....and lot's of yummy food...for the party we did tacos w/ baucom's beef and grateful growers chorizo...already seasoned for you! great....then cupcakes and root beer floats...very popular ! my radishes in "dirt " was fun ....there is a delicious goat cheese under rye bread crumbs.....cuban sandwiches, chicken ans radish salad ( w/ creamy avocado dressing) but the food highlight was......da da da ......we went fishing for white perch....and man were they good...we actually caught several after i read in the paper what lure to use! i made a batter w/ ww flour, beer cornmeal...we soaked the fish 10 minutes in milk and fried them in a cast iron skillet....we even made onion rings...it does't get any fresher than that....homemade tartar sauce..

yum..

scorcher

hi peeps......another hot weekend in the south....headed to the lake ...lots of food ideas......i'm definitely making gazpacho....sweet ripe tomatoes crisp peppers...yum...icey cold. i found another good one ....chicken and radish salad w/creamy avocado dressing (chocolate and zucchini blog) she's this fabulous french lady....check her out. i'm sure other family people will have lot's of ideas....that's what makes life so fun! stay tuned........