Simple musings

Boy, can you believe that summer is just around the corner? Don’t know about where you live, but our grandson (third grader) is out of school for the summer in exactly one week (May 23). In our family, the end of the school year is the official beginning of summer.

In our house, summer means a lot more grilling, lots of fresh vegetables, and trying to cut way down on time in the kitchen. Not that the kitchen is a bad place, but who wants to heat up the house or spend a lot of time sweating over a hot stove with temperatures hanging around the mid to upper 90’s and humidity almost as bad. We ARE located in Texas you know.

ME loves her fresh vegetable’s, and the old pressure cooker and the Dutch ovens historically get a lot of use with the black eyed peas, pink hulled peas, zipper peas, cream peas, crowder peas and lima beans. But we have discovered the wonders of fresh asparagus, Texas sweet or Vidalia onions, zucchini or yellow squash, mushrooms and new potatoes cooked in a wok on the grill.

And at least once a week, ME digs out the old cast iron skillet and fries up some okra. Even folks who NEVER eat okra beg for second helpings when ME is frying. She uses a very light (almost a dusting) batter which is the secret. Or so she says.