Food Porn

Karen from The Art of Doing Stuff posted a recipe for no-bake cookies, or "ies" a while back and I had been itching to try them.  Since I have the sweet tooth from hell, I like to keep healthier dessert alternatives around so I don't go crazy, and these are perfect.  And do you really want to turn on your oven in the summer?  These kind of taste like eating raw cookie dough, one of my favorite pastimes :-)

The recipe and Karen's post are here, I will only include the photos of our raw cookie adventure!

 It looks like poo, I know.  And is that ... a pinch taken out?  What the ....

Culprit.  She shows no remorse.

 Yummy!  So easy, so good.  
Words to the wise: OK, this may be obvious to everyone else but me, but dates have pits.  Big pits.  You have to remove them before you add them to the food processor so you don't, you know, almost blow out the motor :-/
My own lil' University has a farmers market every summer, and I went to my first one last week.  Scored a gigantic bag of produce for $6.20!  Including a baguette that I'm not ashamed to say I ate a third of before it made it home.  I also got some beautiful mushrooms from their mushroom bar, and last night made this with it:

 Mmmm mmm mmm.  I made up a whole wheat pastry crust and rolled it out on a cookie sheet, then caramelized some onions in my skillet, and added thinly sliced yellow squash from the garden and the mushrooms.  Into this went some rosemary and thyme from the garden, and I cooked everything down a bit and then spread it over the crust, and topped it with a 3 cheese blend (Parmesan, mozzarella, and provolone).  I folded the edges in a bit and baked it at 350 for about 1/2 an hour.  So good.  And the girls thought it was pizza :-) 
On the side was our new favorite, radish sauteed with greens

This is what I pulled up yesterday

Meet Radzilla.

Maybe this doesn't show scale enough - sucker was the size of a potato.
What's everyone doing for the Solstice today?  I think we are going to bake some bread, Mooch and her Daddy have a movie date so I get some solo Butterbean snuggle time.
Blessed Litha!