Hockey Game Schedule

Forrest is playing goalie this year. For those of you interested, here is the game schedule through December:

***NOTE: the Sat, Nov 14th game has been canceled***

Date	Time	Location
Sat., Nov 14	11:45 am	Kearns Olympic Oval
Sat., Nov 21	8:30 am	Peaks Ice Arena
Sat., Dec 5	6:15 am 8:45 am 11:15 am	Peaks Ice Arena
Sat., Dec 12	11:00 am	Peaks Ice Arena
Sat., Dec 19	8:45 am	South Davis Rec Center, Bountiful

fried green tomatoes

I will begin this post by admitting that I am a little concerned with the amount of time I've been spending on photographing food and/or produce. Nevertheless, here is another food/produce post.

We had our first frost of the season, so I used it as an excuse to finally dig up my zucchini plants (note for next year: never ever plant six zucchini plants again).

The roundish things on the left are lemon cucumbers. They don't taste like lemons, just sort of look like lemons.

I had one watermelon, an heirloom Moon and Stars variety. It wasn't ripe. It tasted nasty. I composted it.


Garlic

The best were the green tomatoes. I made a giant batch of fried green tomatoes. Wow. Amazingly good. Very rarely do I overeat, even more rarely do I overeat on fried foods.

Go ahead, tell me how awesome I am . . .

Yes, I now own a FlipFOLD. I am awesome.





They even have an infomercial! - "It's SO easy, just FLIP FLIP FLIP and FOLD!"

Sundance

My sister-in-law came for a visit this weekend and she, the boys and I hiked to Stewart Falls.
Yes, she's touching me. But then, I've known her for 21 years.

Randy (Carl's long lost cousin)

I don't think Forrest has forgiven me for the untimely demise of Carl. He found a new friend, "Randy," in the garden.

I wasn't making it up about the overalls

And every Monday is Yard Work Monday. If my friend Carol sends me a floppy hat, I'll wear that too.

The Death of Carl

This post may need explanation. Carl is a cucumber. A very large cucumber from my garden. For reasons I cannot explain other than perhaps negligent parenting, Forrest became attached to this very large cucumber and named it Carl. Yes, it is a bit odd. No, I am not aware of any other children in a twenty mile radius who affectionately name garden vegetables, including any members of the family Cucurbitaceae. The photo above does not do Carl justice, as Carl was a humongous cucumber--there's nothing in the photo to give one perspective.

Here was my problem: I had lots of mint and tomatoes and zucchini, one eggplant and one very, very large cucumber. I also brought home some local Morgan Vally lamb (I am on this grow your own/buy local kick). What to do with lamb and mint and tomatoes and zucchini and eggplant and cucumber?
A nice Middle Eastern meal of grilled lamb kofte, eggplant in pomegranate molasses, zucchini and feta cheese fritters, tomato salad, and . . . cucumber [Carl] in a garlic yogurt mint sauce.

I must admit. I felt terrible guilt. Forrest wasn't home and so I took a picture of Carl (above) so he could remember him. I then promptly gutted Carl.
The food was quite good.

As a postscript, here is my jungle (mostly squash and tomatoes):