On Over-ripening...

Phew! So far July has been a crazy month. For the past five weeks, I've been living the life on an itinerant reading teacher, which has meant that for I've been on the road more than I'd like. And not in the Kerouacian sense either, more like the Seussian sense of teaching kids about The Cat in the Hat.

So when I have been in the kitchen this month, it's been more about adverting over-ripening disasters and damage control than actually lingering over the aromas and textures of all this glorious produce that's coming my way, from every direction. Which is to say, I have not been playing around with new recipes.

Somehow, my garden when from this:

To this:

And from this:



To this: