State Fair!

3/4 of the inhabitants of 495 took the day off for the Great Minnesota Get-Together. A good time and a tummy ache was had by all.

 I love pronto pups!

 Me and Brendan on the giant slide!

 MN celebrity

 Sweet Martha's cookies with all-you-can-drink milk

 Minneapple-pie. Most delicious thing I ate all day.

Apple goodies in the horticulture building.

Pizza on the Farm!!!

It was the perfect day for pizza on the farm, kind of cloudy and rainy. It kept the crowds away, we only had to wait 10 minutes for our delicious pizza.

 Renee frantically searching for her beer.

 Garden vegetable

 Sausage (from happy pigs)

 My new best friend. He was trying to eat his way through the fence, kind of sad.

My attempt at Indian food

 Beautiful tomatoes and peppers from the garden!

That Tikka paste from Patak's could make anything taste good.

Had to drink milk with this one. Those thai chilis are hot!

A success and a failure

Cooking/baking is so much like lab work, so I shouldn't be too surprised when something doesn't work. Tonight I made an amazing pasta sauce, but a terrible loaf of bread. If only I had a 50% success rate in the lab, I would have graduated by now...maybe even published a Nature paper.

I had 8 beautiful Roma tomatoes from the garden. I had grand plans to make pasta sauce and freeze it for enjoyment in the dead of winter. But, the new thing I learned today is that 8 Roma tomatoes cook down to just enough sauce for 1 serving. Thank goodness I am single and I didn't have to share it.

The failure of the night was a loaf of whole-wheat bread that resembles a brick. Maybe I will just stick to sourdough in the future.