Hey... What's for Dinner??

I love summer time.  Not so much the heat (although being a Southerner, I'm much more tolerant of the heat than bitter cold).  What I really enjoy about summer is the massive variety of fresh vegetables.  When I was a kid, I spent my summers in the insufferable heat picking every kind of vegetable my grandfather could fit in his garden, which was a lot.  So, as you can imagine, I had an extra reason back then to hate vegetables.  But now that I'm grown, there's nothing like a table crowded with plates and bowls full of tomatoes, corn, peas, beans, okra, potatoes, zucchini, and squash all straight from the garden. My husband, a Yankee,  says it's a great perk being married to me because every time my mother visits, she always brings him Slocomb tomatoes.

There are, however, some vegetables that we never grew on my childhood farm.  These I only became acquainted with in my adult life.  Among my favorites is eggplant.  So, you can imagine how excited I was when the hubby went to the grocery store last night and found a couple of big, beautiful eggplant.  It gave me the perfect excuse to make one of my all-time favorite dishes ... Khoresh-e bademjan (Persian eggplant and beef stew).  It takes a bit of effort but is so worth it.  


Want the recipe?  Click here.

(btw, my kids hate vegetables as much as I did as a kid .... guess it's a rite of passage)

Well, Hello There.  It's Been A While....

Like many endeavors I undertake, I started this blog with good intentions.  I wanted a way for my in-laws  to be able to get weekly stories and pictures of the kids since they refuse to Facebook, forget to open their emails for weeks at a time, and for some reason, the few times we've tried Skyping, they couldn't get the sound on their end to work.  As you can imagine that didn't last long.  The kids would quickly loose interest in a one-way conversation and wander off, leaving me to try and lipread what their grandparents were saying.  Fun, fun.  Thus, the creation of my blog.  But, it soon became evident, they didn't lacked the technological savy necessary to visit here, either.  So, my blog became an extension of my Facebook page.  Which was redundant ..... and time-consuming.  And other things came along (a new business, for one ....... and The Big Bang television series, for another.  There are a lot of episodes to catch up on when you've missed the first 5 years of a series.).  But now that summer is upon us, leaving me with endless hours to wile away, I'm back.  That's the long and the short of it.  Aren't you glad to know?  No??  Well, there it is, regardless ........


So, even if no one ever visits me, here I will be.  I will try to be more diligent.  Maybe some people will read my musings, most will not.  It doesn't matter.  The true intention of a blog is stroke one's ego, to make them feel as if their life is meaningful and interesting.  In the digital age, we're all writers now.  I'm no different........