Food Food Food

My favorite kind of nights are the ones where we spend the whole evening cooking and enjoying food together. The kind where you make a meal a process and work together and really enjoy and savor the flavors and the conversation. I think that's what is so much fun about eating; socializing!

Tonight was one of those nights. I started making bread before Ed got home and we finished it together and then moved into slowly prepping and making dinner, taking our time! I love Fridays.

I also love the smell of fresh bread baking in a house. Almost nothing else compares to it! And I love this bread recipe.  It's easy, requires things I always have on hand, the bread turns out really soft and light and it is good for everything. We've even used it for pizza dough.

This time, I made one regular and one rolled with cinnamon sugar. I have yet to try this recipe with wheat flour but maybe I will do that next time.

After the bread was finished, we started dinner. About a week ago, a friend gave us a couple of squash from her backyard garden. They have been sitting on display without much of any other purpose so far. Well, tonight, we decided to crack into the bigger of the two, the asian squash.

We grilled the squash on the cast iron. Then we grilled some pita bread and cooked down some spinach and nasturtium (from our garden). Through it all together with some hummus, goat cheese and almonds and then enjoyed a fresh dinner. Nothing makes a meal better than knowing where your food came from.

I think that's all for tonight. We start out tomorrow at the market (more food!). Hopefully it won't be as hot in the morning as it was all day today! My least favorite thing about being pregnant so far has been doing it in the summer! Just a few more weeks left though, and we finally get to know whether it's a boy or a girl!

Good night, all!!  And until next time, take care!

Just Waiting

Things have been slow around the Struble house.  It feels like we should have a baby soon even though I'm 36 weeks pregnant.  I guess it's because Baby Struble has tried twice to come that it feels like baby should be here.  Anyway, we still have a few loose ends to tie up before baby makes his/her appearance so I hope baby waits at least till Sunday.

While we are waiting, we are trying to keep busy!  We got our very first cucumber from our garden.  There a lot more little ones growing but nothing else is ready to pick.  We used our cucumber and some market cucumbers and onions and some of our backyard herbs and made our very first batch of pickles.   They were awesome!  I can't wait to have more.

I'm also hoping we'll start getting some tomatoes soon.  I can't wait for tomato pie, tomato sandwiches, tomato basil mozzarella salad and pretty much anything else you can do with tomatoes!

That's all for now.  Till next time!