Week 11 - Fresh Vegetable Recipes

This week's discussion is easy. How do you prepare your fresh vegetables during the summer?

Week 10 - Summer Produce

Lots of people have summer vegetable gardens or fruit orchards.

Tell me about your garden or orchard if you have one.

1. What do you grow?
2. Do you like everything you grow or is there some stuff you grow only for other people?
3. What are some of your favorite dishes to make with fresh produce (if the recipes are simple, include them)?
4. Is there anything you love fresh that you won't eat if it's not fresh?
5. Are there things you have planted in the past that you no longer plant because you think that store-bought is good enough considering the work you have to do for fresh?

Week 9 - Cheese

Cheese!

1. What types of cheese do you like?
2. Are there any types you won't eat?
3. Do you like to eat cheese plain, or do you prefer it in a recipe, or both?
4. What is one of your recipes where the cheese is an important addition to the dish?

Week 8 - Ice Cream

During the week of July 4th, we always make homemade ice cream, so I thought to help cool us off during this hot summer week, we'd discuss ice cream.

1. What are your favorite flavors of homemade ice cream?
2. What are your favorite brands and flavors of store-bought ice cream?
3. What is your absolute favorite ice cream?
4. If you were making an ice cream sundae, what all would you put on it?
5. Do you prefer to eat out of an ice cream cone or out of a dish?
6. Do you prefer a sugar cone, waffle cone, or regular cone?
7. Do you prefer to eat your ice cream during the summer or do you love it year-round?

Week 7 - Soup

This week I want to talk about soups.


1. Do you only like soup well enough to eat it occasionally during the really cold winter, or do you love it so much you eat it a lot during the hot summer as well?


2. Do you make your own soups or do you usually eat from a can?

3. What are your favorite soups, stews, chowders, broths, or bouillabaisses?

4. Do you prefer heartier stock or simple recipes?


5. Do you prefer broth or cream-based recipes?

6. Do you prefer milk/cream based or tomato-sauce based recipes?

7. If you have a good soup recipe, please post it.