Many associate summertime cooking and meals with backyard barbecues, hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, and the like. And all of that is delicious. But for me, the most typical (late) summer meal consists of things like tomato sandwiches and sliced cucumbers with a copious amount of mayonnaise, salt, and course ground black pepper. To go with the previously showcased iced tea of course. Dinner this evening was our second go-around with tomatoes from the local CSA and a few grown here at home on our back deck in big pots by the Grand Duchess.
Holy cow! Nothing quite like August tomatoes. And we'll have more of the same tomorrow (Monday) evening.
Parenthetically, the pepper mill above is part of a set that I now have although these were on the dinner table at my grandparents' place all of my life until I asked my grandmother for them sometime in the mid- or late 1990s when I was living in Madison, Wisconsin. Without a word, she rolled them up in newspaper, bagged 'em up, and presented the saltshaker and peppermill to me with a smile. They must be 60 years old or more, and I've used them daily ever since.
-- Heinz-Ulrich
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