So very true! Oh, this photo is from WWII England when the English farmers would paint their cows so cars running without headlights might see them in the moonlight!
Let’s head to the garden! We spent a couple of hours removing dead plants and to my surprise, I found a little creature hiding amongst the foliage. He is going to make us a great meal in the next few days!
It was hiding!
We had so many tomatoes that Mary decided to make tomato pie. Like pizza, tomato pie first appeared in the US around the turn of the 20th century, when the tide of Italian immigrants was strongest. Many credit Lombardi’s Pizza, which opened in New York in 1905, with being America’s first pizzeria. Tomato pie traces its origins in Philly to at least 1910 when Iannelli’s opened.
Everything was fresh, right out of the garden! The type of tomato that smell best is?
A Roma.
Tomato pie in the process.
As the pie cooks, the cheese on top will become evenly distributed.
Spreading the cheese.
Ready to go into the oven! We tried to follow a recipe; it said for a bigger portion double everything, but my oven doesn’t go up to 600 degrees.
Ready for the oven
Burn, baby burn! The cheese was an excellent addition to the top, and the crust came out flawlessly.
One hour later.
After taking a bow, the chef begins to prepare stuffed zucchini.
The chef takes a bow!
We had planned to attend the Linda Ronstadt concert at the lodge, but to our dismay, it was already fully booked so we could not get extra tickets. So, Robin and Colleen opted to have dinner at Islands instead. I have a feeling that their visit to the restaurant will leave a lasting impact.
Colleen and Robin went to Islands.
At the concert, we sat with a group of elderly hippies and had a great time dancing to many songs with Mary. Surprisingly, we forgot to bring our hearing aids, but it ended up being a good thing. We left around 9:30 pm and were excited to go home and have some marshmallows.
Linda Rondstadt at the Elks Lodge.
We got home and did the marshmallow thing. We were having so much fun I forgot to take pictures.
In the 1800s, the French crafted the modern marshmallow when chefs realized they could whip marshmallow saw with egg whites and corn syrup to create a moldable snack.
Fast forward to the 1940s, when Alex Doumak revolutionized the process by running the ingredients through tubes before cutting them into equal pieces and packaging them up.
