Tasting Summer

 The hint--or tease--of an actual summer continues off and on.  It's been torture.  Wish there was a way we could have one big exchange system with the mid-west;  we'll ship them some drizzle, fog, & coolness--and they can send us some true bright sunny days with heat!
Visitors here, of course, think this is a heavenly break (unless you're here for Race Week sailing in a windless downpour!)--but a steady diet of it is pretty hard to take (at least for us closet sun worshipers...). So let's do summer things anyway--maybe the power of suggestion will make it happen. You know, have the Hawaiian shirt at the ready if the clouds burn off--stuff like that. Our good friends had us down for an indoor barbeque in honor of the summer that almost isn't.

Carol is such an amazing cook.  This time she decided homemade graham crackers would be a good addition to s'mores (OMG! They were great!).

Then came the new generation of marshmallows--have you seen those things?! They're so big!

Finally, add dark chocolate for the chocolate bar pieces & use the gas cooktop--wa-la!!  The best s'mores yet! (but don't we think that every time we have 'em?) 

It feels like summer when you bite into the gooey mix of sugar--just close your eyes! Just need to add campfire stories & you're almost there...