Oh my gosh I hate the heat. Summer in Memphis has reached the point of extreme, sweltering, oven heat. It’s hard to take a deep breath outside. Early morning was tolerable up until last week and now it’s just as bad. The high today is going to be 100F but with the heat index it’s going to feel like its 108F. Sob. I’ve lived here my entire life and I have never enjoyed the summer. We also are going on almost a week with no rain, although I did see some thunderstorms forecasted for tomorrow and Wednesday. On days like this I waste time looking up different cities high temp on Weather.com, for instance today in Seattle it’s going to be a balmy 75F with a low of 55F!!! I won’t see 57F again until October. Sigh.
In other news I got my first edible item from my garden last Thursday, a cucumber. It was pretty big too, I was a little worried I had left it on the vine too long but I cut it up and ate it in a salad Saturday and it was fine, not too seedy. I know it was just a cucumber but it was very fulfilling to eat something I had grown myself. The cucumbers are really plentiful it seems, I picked another large one Saturday morning and one again this morning. I love them in salad, but I’m looking for some more ideas on how to eat them, especially since it looks like I’m going to have a lot of them…
2 comments:
my favorite cuke recipe is to cube one or two of them and throw them in the blender with some plain yogurt and a little garlic and maybe dill to make a cold soup. Or slice and marinate in soy sauce and rice wine vinegar. Both keep really well. And are so good cold.
Thanks! I love how good they are cold, especially in this heat.
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