Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 711! I am so happy to see you here today on this beautiful fall day. The official fall date is September 22, 2024  and I think we have a really good start here. We had a great party last week with wonderful post that are featured this week. I hope that you enjoy all the features, be sure and stop by these talented bloggers site and say hello.  Thanks so much for coming to the party today, I can't wait to see what you are sharing!

We love our Tex-Mex here at the cottage. Our Taco Tuesday Casserole is a giant taco in one pan. Baked to perfection with cheese, onion and crisp tortilla chips. We topped this one with some fresh avocado chunks and then of course our home canned salsa. This casserole goes together real fast and is on the table for a hungry family. 

  Hello everyone, I am so excited to see you today and make a delicious meal plan for us. I love it that our weather is so much cooler this week, we have sure enjoyed some nice rain and just being able to relax a bit after the August heat. I have some great recipes that I am looking at, I will be interested in which one my husband chooses from the group this week. Sometimes he surprises me with his picks. Now  that school is started I know that some of you want some meals that will make it easier to put dinner on the table, after a long school day.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 710! September is here and it has brought some great weather with it. Please join us in the great outdoors today, we are going to enjoy this beautiful weather we are having. We have some awesome features from last weeks party that I hope you will enjoy. We have saved you a seat at the table and I can't wait to see what you are bringing to share with us today. Thanks so much for coming we always love having you here!

Welcome to September with some of the garden harvest winding down for this season.  We have several traditional end of season recipes that we will be sharing with you. Some of the produce that we enjoyed in early June and July has given in to the heat and now we are have only the hardy producers to harvest. We are so blessed to live in an area that has some of the best farmers markets that keep us supplied with most garden vegetables the year round.

Good Morning everyone, I sure hope that you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. My goodness my husband and I were just talking about how fast the summer went by this year, but here we are. Our meal plans are fun this time of the year as we transition into the fall season. It is still warm enough to enjoy some grilling time, but then we enjoy a great bowl of soup on a cooler evening. This week I will be visiting our farmers market so we will see what ends up in my cart to help with the meal plans this week.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday and our TOP TEN features from last weeks party!  Here we are at the last week of August and the Labor Day Weekend, we are excited to see all of you today. This is one of the last official weekends of the summer here at the lake. We expect a great weekend with lots of folks out for a last big event of the season. We are starting to see some transitional foods going into fall, it is always fun to watch what folks are sharing this time of the year. I look forward to see what you are sharing at the party today. Thanks so much for coming today and stay safe over your fun weekend!

The zucchini are plentiful right now and what better squash to bring from the garden to the table. Our Spicy Zucchini Bread is so simple and yet deep with flavors. My husband tested this bread for me and  when I asked him what he thought he said, "it tastes every bit as good as it smelled." This bread is easy to put together and it is even better to eat. It is a real winner!

Hello everyone, my goodness we are going into the last week of August and it is hot! We have been having record breaking temperatures that have put me indoors with the cooler air. At this point with meal plans I think what in the world, just give me something cold, right? I am looking at some of my recipes and we will see what makes it to the line up this week. We also have Labor Day Weekend coming up next weekend. We have already made plans for the weekend, we will see if the temperatures allow us to go forward.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 708! We are so happy to see you here at the party today. The heat index is 107 as I am writing this post. We are having the party in the cottage today so we can stay cool, sit at the table and visit with one another and sip some ice cold sweet tea. I can't wait to see what you are sharing with us today. I hope you will take some time and enjoy the awesome features we have today.

Welcome to our annual summer garden tour. As I look back on our spring and summer garden season it has been a good one. We have had quiet a bit of construction and remodel on our grounds, but we managed to produce a really nice harvest with some beautiful plants to enjoy. In gardening the weather is always a challenge, and this year has been no different. We are actually in the last half of our August heat and it is hot, but it will soon start to cool with the dog days of summer. We will soon be preparing the ground and planting our winter garden and the seasons continue on.

  Hello everyone, I sure hope that you are staying cool in this last half of August. Our schools started here this week, so we are all starting to get into the fall routine of the school zone speed limits, and Friday night football. We will begin to transition into our fall meal planning with more root vegetables and darker greens. But right now we are not quiet there as our temperatures are still very hot giving us the opportunity to enjoy summer cooking just a little longer.

  Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 707! I am so excited to see you here today at the party. We have saved you a seat at the table so come on in and find your place, I can't wait to see what you will be sharing with us today. While you are waiting today you might enjoy a nice slice of my  Grape Ice Box Pie .  Our schools started this week and the fall calendar is quickly becoming a reality. Our little community is starting to revolve around the school scheduling and talk of the first football game coming soon. Wow where did this summer go?

  I have wanted to develop this pie recipe for sometime. I finally got it from my head to the table. I am sure glad I did, it is delicious. It takes very little time to make the pie and it is ready to serve after a few hours in the refrigerator. The filling is filled with creamy goodness with a burst of flavor from the fresh grapes. Next time I will double the recipe and make two pies as we ran out way to soon!