Today the weather's so warm I shed my sweatshirt by noon and put on a short-sleeved shirt. Crisp nights, warm days, sunny skies, gentle breezes, turning leaves. The golden time, and the harvest continues as if it were high summer rather than midfall. Monday, more yellow pattypans. Enough on hand for Kate to stuff a couple that night with couscous, corn, onions, and peppers, and freeze a few for the winter. Also more Big Beef slicers, enough for me to make a tomato sauce for the pattypans to bake in, with basil, parsley, garlic, and chili powder. A Mexican sort of concoction that Kate invented during a family reunion back in August -- so rich and tasty now with the whole wheat couscous, we both agreed it's ready for a recipe contest. More slicers on the back porch, and more turning ripe on the vines. And more zucchini to go with the batch already in the crisper, enough for two or three dinners.
Carl H. Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season
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