Saturday Farmer’s Market is a feature I started to showcase, well, gardens!  This summer especially, I have really come to enjoy everyone’s garden posts and I selfishly want to see them all, every week!  And as you all know, I’m all about the sustainable living!  So give me your garden photos, your gardening books you’re reading, even give me pictures of your Farmer’s Market loot!  I want it ALL.

I finally got to go to the Farmer’s Market again today!  I haven’t been in three weeks, because of our beach vacation, so I was looooong overdue.  Look at the beautiful stuff I got!

I totally love my new apron.  The lady, Josie, who sold it to me was so sweet. She told me she made it with love, she packaged it with love, and then she gave me a big ole hug when she handed it to me.  Honestly, she was so sweet, my eyes teared up a little bit!  I love my farmer’s market, not only for the delicious, healthy, locally grown food, but for the people as well! Everyone is so nice there.

See that bread?  It. Is. The. Best. Bread. EVER.  I wish I knew how to make it.

See the blueberries??? I am making Blueberry Lime Jam today!  Thank God the hot weather broke.

Guess what else I did.  I had 10 pounds of tomatoes out of my garden last night, so I thought I would make tomato sauce and can it.  What to see?

Yep. 2 half pints of tomato sauce. 10 pounds = 1 pint. Wow!  But, it will taste yummy!

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To say To Kill a Mockingbird changed my life might be putting it mildly.  I’ve always been a reader, ever since I could hold up a book.  But up until the point I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird  in high school, most of my reading life had consisted of perfect size six blonde twins who only worried who their next boyfriend was and the messed up world of Christopher Pike.  To Kill a Mockingbird introduced a whole new world of literature to me.  Through Harper Lee I met Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor.  I moved on into the worlds of D’Artagnan, Cosette, and Quasimodo.  I learned that books could be deep, dark, powerful and empowering.

I learned to care about my fellow man, to respect them and show them kindness.  I learned that you are never too old for imagination.  And I expect Atticus set my expectations of men a *little* high. 

It has been a joy and privileged, as well as so much fun reading To Kill a Mockingbird with you guys this month.  I hope you will come around tonight, 8:30 EST, to watch the movie with Dawn of Too Fond of Books and I.  We’ll be watching the movie and discussing the hotness of Gregory Peck amazing job they did transforming this unforgettable book into a movie that is just as unforgettable.  Be sure you are following me @CapriciousReadr and @TooFondofBooks and follow #tkam and join in the party!

If you wrote a review or wrap up post for To Kill a Mockingbird or any other relevant books or posts you wrote this month you can link to them here.  And I hope you will consider joining Amanda from The Zen Leaf and I later this year (we’re aiming for September) to read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to list the books  finished last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finish this week. It was created by J.Kaye’s Book Blog, but is now being hosted by Sheila from One Person’s Journey Through a World of  Books.!

Books Completed Last Week

Rumors: A Luxe Novel book 2 by Anna Godbersen

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, read by Catherine McCormick (rereading to be ready for Mockingjay!)

Books Reading This Week

Planning to start Lit by Mary Karr and Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart

Books to be Completed This Week

Finishing up Q’s Legacy by Helene Hanff.  Honestly, it has taken me way too long to read this very short book.

Room by Emma Donoghue.  Started it at the beach and read over 2/3 of it on the way home.  It. Is. Excellent.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, read by Catherine McCormick (I am SO READY for Mockingjay!)

Also need to finish up To Kill a Mockingbird and Scout, Atticus and Boo! for the read-a-long.

What are you reading this week?

I have been meaning to make pesto for weeks.  There was a specific one I wanted to try, but I had to harvest my oregano before I could get it made.  Well, when I came back from the beach, all that oregano I had annihilated had resurrected itself!  See!

It did all that in one week!  I love my oregano plant.  I’m so sad this is it’s last year.

But glad I can make this pesto now! I’m trying this recipe from Delicious Living Magazine, which I found online.  I used my Lemon Basil, Minette Basil and I only have curly leaf parsley.  I also used just a tiny big more olive oil, to make up for the extra 1/2 cup of leaves.  At first, I was afraid it wasn’t enough olive oil.  I’ve seen recipes that call for 1/4 – 1/2 cup and they looked too oily, so this is perfect.  It looks yummy and I think we’ll be having pizza with pesto, mozzarella and tomatoes for supper tomorrow.  I wish I could get Beth Fish Reads’s tried and true pizza dough recipe… (hint, hint).

Doesn’t that look yummy?  If it is, you can bet I’ll be making more to freeze.  I have a TON of basil to use up!

Weekend Cooking hosted by BethFishReads every weekend.  It is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to grab the button and link up anytime over the weekend. Please link to your specific post, not your blog’s home page. For more information, see the welcome post.