Good Times, Peeps and Eats...

Tony and his entire family drove from Sacramento to our house on Friday. His twin boys are seven and our boys are six and eight respectively so there was a gaggle of similarly aged boys running a muck and having a blast. With four bedrooms a queen futon and a queen sofa bed, we're always equipped to have over night company so we invited them to stay the night, which they did. Their little girl Hannah is amazingly cute! She has blond curly hair and the sweetest smile. I really enjoyed hanging out with them. We also invited some other friends over to play board games and of course MTG Friday evening. Mauricio and I made carne asada, guacamole, tortillas, salsa and salad from lettuce and tomatoes in my garden. We served the tacos with a wheel of my latest cheese which we crumbled over the tacos. It has a flavor not unlike Queso Cotija, a white slightly salty, crumbly Mexican cheese. We also made a giant pot of rice and black beans.

Saturday after Tony and family left to go back up to Sac., we went with different friends to a party. We ate the most heavenly smoked ribs and grilled chicken at Derek and Arlee's house. Derek is a pit master and makes the meanest slow smoked ribs around. Furthermore, all of our kids are similarly aged and had a great time playing together.

Sunday I took the kids to the library and then we all went swimming at the club for the majority of the afternoon. After that, I baked five loaves of zucchini bread to help use up all of the zucchini we have growing. I simply can't keep up with the production capacity of my two plants. My guinea pigs who once LOVED zucchini are now turning up their noses when I throw zuke rounds in to their food dishes. I think we are on the brink of zucchini overload... I had to make rice krispy treats for my kids as they refused to eat another bite of zucchini bread. I had made the loaves to take to my parent's house for dessert . I managed to off load three of the five loaves in this way.