Summer of Food Love

And now, as we say goodbye to that fleeting, fabulous season we call summer, let us pay homage to the glory of summer food, and the sing the praises of the bounty the Earth shares with us in those fecund months* . . .

*I just made that up.

It all starts with the tomatoes. It always, always starts with the tomatoes.

And this year we had the bumper crop to end all bumper crops.

Combined with the bumper crop to end all bumper crops of cayenne, jalapeno, habanero and chile peppers.

Happy hour with tomatoes and fresh mozzarella and basil and olives? Why, no, it does not get any better.

And Mistah's signature dish from that bumper crop of ours . . .

Hot-pepper-and-basil-pesto pasta with fresh green beans, grilled hot italians and corn on the cob.

We had it, or a variation of it, almost every night.

And we still have plenty of peppers on the plants, and a few hearty tomatoes hanging on for dear life . . .  maybe summer's not entirely over yet.

Because we still have baseball, too.

How 'bout those Tigers??!