It seems like every week or so we give and receive delicious homemade and often homegrown food. You know, the old take over a pot of soup one week and the next week get your pot back and it's filled with something else delicious. What can I say, we have great friends and lucky for us they are all good eaters and many are fantastic cooks.
Especially our neighbor Alison. Every time I take Alison something I've made to eat (she's vegan so it's not as frequent as I'd like) she brings us back something incredible. She's a really good baker and her sweets -- especially her pies -- are hard not to make a meal out of. They're that good.
The last few weeks we've been gifted some really tasty food and drink. Here's some of what I'm talking about...
Nick Zukin's guajillo salsa. He handed this to me at a food event late this summer. Awesome. I got to try all sorts of his homemade salsas and Mexican dishes at a dinner party at his home a few weeks ago. There's a very important reason for that. Mum's the word now but you'll find out more soon...
Culinate's Kim Carlson dropped off a bag of these tasty local sweet dream peaches and summer flare nectarines in September...
Pine State Biscuit's Kevin Atchley gave me a jar of his oh-so-very-good homemade pickled okra.
Our friend and neighbor Alison brought us back all these tasty treats from her cross-country trip this summer.
Our friend Karen gave us a tray of seed saver celery starts this summer and we've been enjoying a lot of great soups and stews the last several weeks as a result.
Our friend Craig gave us a bunch of different hot and not-too-hot chiles from his garden and we've been making lots of sautees and salsas with them.
Alison gave us these delicious apple tarts this Monday. We had them Tuesday morning with coffee. So good.
Go make some yummy things and give them to your friends. They deserve it.