Green Goddess's * The Freshness of Summer!!!

Green Goddess

I made this Fresh Green Goddess Salad

YUMMY Tahini Salad Dressing *   COMFYTUMMY

Green Goddess Rice * FOODNETWORK

Zantedeschia "Green Goddess" * THEGARDENER

Last but not least.. Green Goddess Mocktail * KHAUGIRL

Poke Salad... Deep south salad from the Pokeweed..... But there is more...

I have always loved Tony Joe White's

Song POLK {POKE} SALAD ANNIE..

What in the world is Poke Salad you ask....
I did a little research and it turns out to be an interesting lil weed...

FOLLOW THE PIPER

did a great post on the plant....

GRANNY MOUNTAIN BLOG

Has a great Poke Salat trivia section!
The Poke weed is actually a herb that is said to be very toxic.
Southern cooks boil it three times before making into a dish..

What ever you do DO NOT EAT THE BERRIES...

☼☀☼SUMMER and the GLORIOUS CUCUMBER☼☀☼

COOL*CRISP*CRUNCHY*CUCUMBERS

Summer is coming and where would we be with out the

beautiful perfect vegetable the cucumber??

Not only are they refreshing to munch on..
SEE Kevin's Closet Cooking Blog for this Cool
mouthwatering Cucumber and Feta salad..

YUM

I recently purchased some wonderfully
refreshing products that smell Out Of This World!!
I can't stop smelling myself!

Another ridiculously easy and good for you
summer treat is
adding sliced cucumber to a jug of water..
So good..

Take down eye puffiness..
cool those peepers..

And we can't forget to include some of ETSY's
Cool as A Cucumber products!!

aBreathofFrenchair
Fresh Cucumber water
Spray on Lotion

BibBon
Cucumber Sleep Eye Mask

DeShawnMarie
Creamy Cucumber Handmade Soap

POEM WITH A CUCUMBER IN IT by Robert Haas

Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset

The rim of the sky takes on a tinge

Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber

When you peel it carefully.

*

In Crete once, in the summer,

When it was still hot at midnight,

We sat in a taverna by the water

Watching the squid boats rocking in the moonlight,

Drinking retsina and eating salads

Of cool, chopped cucumber and yogurt and a little dill.

*

A hint of salt, something like starch, something

Like an attar of grasses or green leaves

On the tongue is the tongue

And the cucumber

Evolving toward each other.

*

Since cumbersome is a word,

Cumber must have been a word,

Lost to us now, and even then,

For a person feeling encumbered,

It must have felt orderly and right-minded

To stand at a sink and slice a cucumber.

*

If you think I am going to make

A sexual joke in this poem,

you are mistaken.

*

In the old torment of the earth

When the fires were cooling and disposing themselves

Into granite and limestone and serpentine and shale,

It is possible to imagine that, under yellowish chemical clouds,

The molten froth, having burned long enough,

Was already dreaming of release,

And that the dream, dimly

But with increasing distinctness, took the form

Of water, and that it was then, still more dimly, that it imagined

The dark green skin and opal green flesh of cucumbers.

Don't forget to put CUCUMBERS
on your Shopping List!!!

MARTHA'S HONEYDEW CUCUMBER MOJITO