July 4

Wow. There are a lot of food-based posts on this blog. And here's another!

For the July 4th holiday we ended up having a lovely time at home.  After thoroughly cleaning the house we took the pets for a celebratory trip to the vet (celebratory for us, not them), then rewarded them for excellent behavior at the vet's office by a romp at the park with their canine play group. Then we staggered home to start cooking.

Our menu included some BBQ in the smoker, kale, corn fritters and cherry pie with buttermilk ice cream.