Hi Everyone,

I am just stopping by to say hello and wish everyone a great summer weekend.

Here in the northeast we were “not so blessed” with the remnants of Hurricane Elsa, some of us lost power and flooded streets but we are drying out and getting back to normal. I hope any of you that experienced Elsa are doing well and didn’t have any storm damage.

There wasn’t much cooking going on in the kitchen during the storm but today Bob and I visited a few farm stands and bought my favorite July treat – zucchini flowers. ( I’ll post the link to last years recipe for now to remind you what they are and for any new members to see the fried flowers). They are the edible male flowers from the zucchini plant. Sometimes stuffed with ricotta or fried plain in a flour/seltzer batter- absolutely delicious.

The flowers always reminds me of my grandmother’s garden when I was a child. Grandma would go out in the early morning when the flowers are open wide to pick the flowers. She would fry some and serve it with a scrambled egg for me. Great memories!

https://dishingwithdiane.com/2020/07/30/grandmas-fried-zucchini-flowers/

In addition we purchased a summer snake squash also know in Italian as ” Cucuzza” and I will post a recipe for that as well.

I will post all final dishes once I fry some flowers and make some a frittata, and the snake squash; just not today, I am tired.

Bob did run out and brought home another special treat for me today and that is gelato. He ordered my favorite flavor, pistachio – made with real Italian pistachios from Bronte, Sicily and another flavor- Amarena cherries.

So, I will cook the flowers & squash tomorrow and post the end results but like I said, I just wanted to stop by and say hello.

Sending you all my best wishes!

Until my next post, make every day a celebration!

Stay well,

Diane