Let them eat cake.....

It was that kind of day.

Many thanks to all of my friends and family who sent birthday wishes my way.  It's not as bad as I had expected.

Fresh Vegetable Medley

LH brought over some freshly picked green beans and zucchini this afternoon.  In this heat, we've been eating lighter, and I made a fresh vegetable stew for supper tonight.

I sauteed an onion with some garlic, added in a couple of small red potatoes, and started that all cooking in a little olive oil.  It needed some liquid and I didn't have any fresh tomatoes (which I think would have been good), so I poured the liquid from a can of diced tomatoes in with the vegetables,  I cubed the zucchini, cut up the green beans, decided to throw in the tomatoes after all, then added some spices.  Salt, pepper, parsley and oregano.  I had some fresh basil so I added that.  It was pretty tasty.

Cross blog

Because it is what I threatened to do.

I almost think this should go on the cooking blog.

Has anyone else seen these?

3 for a buck.  Which is pretty dang expensive for kraut, even "Quality Kraut".  But TOPWLH and the P-ster were going to go to the track today (I begged off, futbol don't ya know).  The deal at the track on the Fourth of July is free hot dogs.  The dogs are free but the condiment selection is severely lacking.  Our family tradition is to bring our own mustard (although anyone who knows me will know that I always maintain that the cheap yellow mustard is a GOOD mustard) and kraut.  Packing a tupperware container of kraut isn't THAT difficult but geez, singles?  Way, way easier.

Convenience rules.