Hot

Out here in the U.S. Midwest, Labor Day weekend was a scorcher. Again today, it’s 95(f) degrees (35c) and will be again tomorrow. We’re supposed to get a cool-off on Thursday, and it can’t come soon enough for me.

We’ve had very little rain all summer. Unfortunately, I think it’s causing some leaves to turn color already, which means fall foliage might not be a full bloom this year. Bummer. It’s my favorite season.

We’ve had to do a lot of watering of the veggies garden (my husband does this garden).Not to mention my flowers and plants (I do this garden). Check out my begonias, hostas, roses, and herbs. 👇Because of the heat over the weekend, we didn’t schedule outdoor activity for our holiday. Instead, we spent much of the time on a project indoors  . . .  cooking!

Turning on the oven isn’t the best idea on hot days, but thank God for air conditioning.

We really needed to do something with all these tomatoes from our garden.We had a second bowl filled with the same amount.

My husband and I have an assembly line going when we make tomato (pasta) sauce from scratch with these. I boil the tomatoes and peel the skins. He blends them and gets out the seeds. I pour the liquid into sizzling garlic and basil and stew it down.

We put Italian sausage in some of the sauce and made some half-rigotonis or rigotinis.Because we had so much sauce, we also made pizza from scratch, which was why we turned on the oven.

We had bought a bunch of fresh apples at the farmer’s market and baked Apple Slices.Okay, time for my diet.

Hope you had a nice weekend. Did you do anything more exciting than cooking?