Purple Peppers and Weekend Events

Our peppers are coming in much earlier this year for us! We have harvested this purple one and several anaheim peppers. We used the purple one in a salad, but learned a great recipe from a friend for the anaheim. We broiled the peppers until they were a little charred then put them in a plastic bag to "sweat." Then the skins were suppose to be very easy to peal off. Cut a slit in the pepper and stuff with cheese. Prepare some whipped egg whites and fold in some of the yolk for a batter. Dip the stuffed peppers into some flour then the batter and deep fry. This was super yummy!! I don't have any pictures because these were fixed at our friend's house, where we also enjoyed some amazing zucchini gazpacho soup.

On Friday Clay and I enjoyed the above described dinner. Saturday we attended a wedding at Maison Beliveau. A beautiful bed and breakfast located in Catawba Valley. My favorite part would be the lavendar walk ways, the smell was spectacular. Sunday we had a guest preacher, Mr. McPhail at church and then celebrated the 130 year anniversary with a picnic. I fixed a couple dishes with goodies from the garden, some chocolate spice squash cookies and cucumber dip with crackers. The food and fellowship was wonderful for about 20 min, until we had a 30 min. downpour that increasingly got worse and worse. A few people ran to the covered porch while the rest of us under the tents watched as water poured through the space where the tents were placed next to each other. Water bounced off plates for the unfortunate under the cracks and flowed like a river down the tables. Dishes were attempted to be covered but my dip became soup and the cookies very soggy. Those under the dessert tent continued to snack away as the rest of us were trapped huddled together under the other tents. Dad sacraficed himself to shelter Mrs. Kinnear from the rain blowing in sideways. Eventually the rain settled down and a few of the kids escorted the older folks to their cars under umbrellas, it was a cook out we want soon forget.

Jess and Rach - Kerry put together some pictures of the church over the years. Including everyone holding hands and counting off attendance at VBS and hanging gifts of warmth on the mitten tree. My favorite of you both was from a wedding where you were wearing these adorable pink dresses, your little girls would love to see their mommies being princesses!!