July 21

Field day, today. Harvested beans (80-some pounds), and squash (can't remember how many....a lot), then lunch, then weeding broccoli. Hot, sweaty and dirty. But great conversations among the plants! Weird, huh?

Tonight for dinner I made ham, steamed broccoli and carrots, and stuffed squash blossoms. They were good! It's the actual flower from the squash plants. I did both zucchini and yellow squash, but they tasted the same. I stuffed them with ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, an egg yolk, and just a touch of salt. Then, dipped the blossom into a batter of flour, water and more Parmesan and fried them. Ooh la la!!! I had a tomato sauce along side to dip them in, but it was a little over-powering for the subtle taste of the blossoms. They tasted good together, but the blossoms by themselves were good, too.

Big news for the farm: Midwest Living Magazine will be coming out on Pizza Night next week to do a story!!!! Lots of little maintenance/beautification projects just got bumped to the top of the to-do list!!! Not sure how they heard of the farm, but we're all excited! Just need to make sure we're showered before the photographer gets here!!!