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We have two things to celebrate today and tomorrow, the beginning of Summer and DH will be done with field school and coming home to stay.
To celebrate both events, I'm planning to make a nice dinner that involves very little cooking, so I don't have to heat up the kitchen.
Here is one of our favorite hot weather foods:
Here is one of our favorite hot weather foods:
Bruschetta
8 Roma tomatoes, finely diced
3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
5 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 Tablespoons Balsamic vinegar
3 Tablespoons fresh basil, finely chopped
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 baguette
Cut baguette into about 20 slices and toast lightly on a cookie sheet in a 350 degree oven.
Mix all the other ingredients in a large bowl. Let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.
Top each slice of bread with a heaping teaspoon of the tomato mixture and serve.
3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
5 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 Tablespoons Balsamic vinegar
3 Tablespoons fresh basil, finely chopped
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 baguette
Cut baguette into about 20 slices and toast lightly on a cookie sheet in a 350 degree oven.
Mix all the other ingredients in a large bowl. Let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.
Top each slice of bread with a heaping teaspoon of the tomato mixture and serve.
I'm getting the fresh basil from our garden. The basil and all the vining plants are doing great!
It's been so hot and sticky here that I can only work in the garden early in the morning or just before dark. I went out in the middle of the day yesterday to plant a row of okra plants and ended up with my first bad sunburn of the year. Ula has been helping a lot with the garden too, and she also has a sunburn, even though she's been wearing that broad brimmed straw hat I gave her for her birthday.
I took Blaze to the library yesterday afternoon and we checked out a movie about the four seasons and two different productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It's been so hot and sticky here that I can only work in the garden early in the morning or just before dark. I went out in the middle of the day yesterday to plant a row of okra plants and ended up with my first bad sunburn of the year. Ula has been helping a lot with the garden too, and she also has a sunburn, even though she's been wearing that broad brimmed straw hat I gave her for her birthday.
I took Blaze to the library yesterday afternoon and we checked out a movie about the four seasons and two different productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
So, we can watch one tonight and one tomorrow and compare them.
