A week of blistering heat and drenching humidity. Best for staying in the shade and sipping fizzy drinks in glass tumblers (NEVER plastic) with lots of ice, slices of fruit and snippets of Mojito mint. We have been thinking wistfully of the glorious, sunny, slightly cooler September days that are (surely) only a few weeks away.
Cooking and hot food? Not so much. Most meals are cold stuff, lightly tossed salads with whatever is ripe in the garden (or tucked in the fridge) along with a drizzle of balsamic. The crunchy veggies and lovely, crisp greens on my plate are tarted up with generous dollops of fresh parsley, olives and feta. Yum.
In August, there are Carolina grasshoppers (also called road-dusters and Quakers) everywhere in the garden, and when they take sudden, swooping flight out of the tomato patch right in front of us, their airborne antics startle.
Love the blue in the bottom of the beaker here. I seem to be drinking sky.
1 comment:
Oh My G, Cate. "...sipping fizzy drinks in glass tumblers (NOT plastic) ..." we have so much in common. I too eschew drinking from a plastic glass when there is something prettier to be had. I dont understand how others dont understand this preference.
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