This is pear-fect for the summer heat: One ripe, green pear, 1 cup of orange juice, 2 ice cubes, 2 limes and 1 cup of ginger ale blended. Whether you decide to put bourbon in there or not is none of my business.

Simple hummus with pine nuts.

A re-mix of Shelly's cookie recipe baked in the toaster over. (I can't figure out our oven.)

Mushroom, black bean and chile-de-árbol pizza.

Also, this is what's going on these days around the hills where I walk each day...
