Ode to Food

The best part of summer is the fresh produce found everywhere. I recently went to the Farmers Market in Salt Lake and scored 4 of these beautiful summer squashes for 1 dollar. 2 lbs of perfect squash for 1 freaking dollar! I highly recommend that everyone go immediately to their local Farmers Market and go crazy. It was so much fun perusing the gorgeous produce and sampling tasty treats from small bakeries and cheese vendors. I got to sample the most delicious chevre and gruyere cheeses. I also bought a loaf of basil asiago cheese bread and some blueberry cream cheese pastries that disappeared in about 5 minutes.

hmmm... bread.

The following day I went to visit my Grandparents and found these beautiful peaches exploding off the branches begging to be picked. I obliged of course but had quite an adventure keeping Diesel from attacking me and eating all my peaches.

Today i finally had a chance to cook up my squashes and bake a peach pie. It was the perfect summer meal. Christian paced his Pappy in the Wasatch 100 race yesterday and is feeling a bit sore today so we've enjoyed lazying around all day filling our bellies with summer bounty.

My Dad is the best squash cooker upper in the world! When cooking up these little guys I followed his simple yet delicious method. It's classic.

Warm peach pie with whip cream. Makes me smile just thinking about it. I think it might be time for another piece.