Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Summer Casserole



This is one of my favorite summer casseroles, it's made for a summer garden.  Fresh tomatoes, zucchini, green onions...yum!  The sour cream sauce melts down into the rice and the jack cheese makes a nice crust.  It's so good!  It's from Susan Branch's cookbook Heart of the Home (I wasn't able to find a copy online and so I had to scan it).   If you haven't checked out her cookbooks before, they're a real treat.  It's just fun to look at her illustrations and read her stories about the food.

I've been trying to do one meal a week with no meat.  I feel like we eat so heavy sometimes and it's nice once a week to have a meatless meal.  Good for our bodies and our budgets!


Friday, July 22, 2011

The Help

OK, I'm back from summer vacation to Oklahoma and I've got lots of great pics to post.  But it's going to take me a little bit to get them up.  In the meantime, I thought I'd share one of my favorite books this year.  I'm sure most of you have read it because I'm sort of behind the times on this one.  But the movie is coming out soon (August 10th!)- so you still have time to read it before then. 

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett