It's another Fruity Week around here!

Here's what's on the menu for this week. Lots of salads and even more fruit.


Ice cold watermelon with just a scattering of sea salt.


A whole box of apricots. I like to slice them and toss with some raspberries in a bowl of Greek yogurt. When they are really ripe, hubby smashes them and spreads on a slice of sourdough toast. Also very good to substitute peaches for the apricots, but the peaches at the market were hard a rock so passed on those for now. I have a hard time getting enough protein anyhow, as I am not a big meat eater, but this time of year when it is so hot, even a harder time. So we have been making lots of protein smoothies, with blueberries, and bananas. I am overdosing on fruit this time of summer, but I guess there are worse things.

Beautiful Skies, Too Hot to Cook

I don't have much of an appetite when it is so hot, and certainly don't feel like cooking. Here's last nights dinner. Cottage cheese, with berries, grapes and figs. Added some rye toast and a tall glass of iced tea. Light but very satisfying.

Driving home yesterday afternoon, the clouds were so gorgeous, over this field, freshly mown and rolled up bales of hay. Hmmmm...do they still call them bales, now that they are actually "rolls". I dunno.

Berries for Breakfast

Berries for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert! Oh how I love raspberries. This is my first bowl of the season. They have such a short season, so as soon as I see them I get all excited and try to eat them every day. These came from Watsonville, Ca. They are the famous Driscoll Farms, famous for strawberries also. I don't like strawberries nearly as much....unless of course they are from the Farmer's Market or straight out of the garden like the ones we had when I was a kid. I don't know why it is but I like all the things that have a very short season....Figs and Pomegranites are two of my other favorites and I overdose on them both when they are available. Maybe it is because growing up we only had things to eat that were grown in the garden or were in season in the area where I lived. Long before things were shipped in containers from all over the world, and we could have whatever, whenever...but in my opinion most of it has no taste. So I am off to eat my berries, and think about how I will have them again...maybe with some yogurt at lunch, in my salad at dinner...and another bowl tonight. Yum!