I’m growing squash and zucchini!
Ooh, then you can make squash blossoms.
What are squash blossoms? How do you make something with them?
Well, I think the plants flower and the squash grows from the flower, so you just pick the flower and use that…?
So the zucchini will just start flowering and I’ll pick the blossoms and not have any zucchini?
Well, I mean the squash.
Aren’t zucchini squash?
I don’t know. I just saw them making squash blossoms on TV the other night and it sounded interesting and I was thinking that I …

DON’T YOU EAT THOSE SCOOPS!

Bake and Shake wrote about pancakes as the ultimate in hospitality which sparked in me a small fire, or a flame, maybe just an ember. Or something.
I hate pancakes.
When I was young, we’d often spend weekends at my great aunt’s house and every morning she’s spend her hard earned retirement hours making us breakfast when she could otherwise have been gardening, watching her stories or spending an extra half-hour in the park across the street looking for money dropped by “the druggies” behind the tennis courts. Instead, she …

A little over a year ago, Bake and Shake shared her recipe for Salt Lick Bars and I have been eying them ever since. I finally made them last night for my book club and they are quite delicious. The caramel was soft and silky, the best I’ve ever had.
Since the bottom had shortbread, The Celiac couldn’t try them. That was a disappointment because caramel and chocolate are two of her major food groups. While driving my delicious treats to book club I considered making them …

Sweet Baby jesus, why?
The canned cheeseburger
If I would have seen this at Trader Joe’s earlier today, you bet I’d have purchased it for the book club this evening, just for poops and giggles. Instead, they’ll have to make do with a delicious salad and a shriveled and cold flat bread with ham, onions and gruyere cheese that I baked an hour ago, thinking maybe my sister would pick me up, you know, about an hour ago.