I love fuzzy cheeks

We're eating our way through the dog days of summer.

We know it's the dog days at our house when the always temperature-conscious chick on our digital thermometer is dressed like this:



Thankfully we've found some fresh eats at our neighborhood farmers market to help us keep our cool in the kitchen.

We've found the juiciest fuzzy-cheeked peaches.

 

Along with a rainbow of heirloom tomatoes, carrots, summer squashes, peppers and corn on the cob.

 

 

 

We've folded these ingredients into a sundry of sweet and savory galettes -- inspired by watching reruns of "Cooking with Julia" on one of our 12 PBS channels, while we go with our no-cable experiment.

 

And, oh, the berries. No, mom, they aren't wild, but aren't they pretty?

 

I made my first ever attempt at freezer jam.

 

It loves a slice of warm banana bread.

 

This pint-sized baker sampled a $6-dollar loaf of banana bread at the Farmers Market and decided we needed to bake a batch at home and then slice it in time for a snack before his favorite afternoon cartoon (thankfully we have an all-kids-shows PBS channel on our antenna line-up).

 

 

It's not your traditional, dense, moist loaf of banana bread, but this recipe is a pleasant twist. I highly recommend it. And it's much cheaper than the $6 loaf at the market.

 

I'm not sure how it's relevant, but here is the phonetic spelling of all of the colors of the rainbow, in Spanish:

 

And our official drink of summer?

The Arlnold Plalmer.

Er, Larnold Pamler.

Armold Paln... well, it's that drink where you brew a nice pitcher of decaf sun tea on the deck, then bring it back into the house, poor it over ice and add a smidge of TJ's organic lemonade to sweeten it up.

 

Ahh... Refreshment in a glass.

 

Arnold Plalm... oh, forget it. It's delicious.

We're enjoying the tastes of the season. What are you eating?