We finally pulled up our carrots. They were just about to flower, so it was time. They were beautiful, but small. Anyone have the secret to growing bigger carrots?

Now for a short baby interlude. . .

Tiny buns!

We wrapped up the carrots in tinfoil with butter and honey and tossed them on the grill. Butter and honey is my favorite way to roast carrots (usually in the oven).

Other than the basil that we've been pruning (time to make pesto soon!), the other thing we brought in was the broccoli raab, but the hot weather has made it flower faster than we can pick it, so its all been too bitter to really eat. Has anybody grown regular broccoli and had the same issue (I'm wondering what to plant next year, since I'll probably skip the raab)?

Everything else is growing and looking great. There are plenty of tiny green tomatoes and peppers we're waiting on to ripen (oh tomatoes, the reliable little fellows), and we need to get the kale and brussle sprouts in soon (anyone know if I can just direct seed the brussel sprouts?)

What's your garden growing these days?

The remainder of out trip was most definitely, absolutely about food. We had delicious wood-fired pizza on Sunday night, and then went back to our hotel and watched way too many of those Dateline murder mysteries, with a tiny sleeping person between us in that big bed, before going to sleep. The next morning, we did a google search that went something like "best breakfast places in Philadelphia," picked Honey's Sit-n-Eat  and went with it. Good choice. It was so delicious, and the aesthetic was the perfect eclectic, dinery, farmy mix, with just the right amount of grunge. 

Indy ate an entire packet of butter (don't you feed your babies butter?)

(Notice the scar in my eyebrow. . . as a kid I got hit while some friends were playing with, of all things, a golf ball retriever.)

We had horchata, key lime pie french toast, and the truffle toad in a hole with micro-greens. . .

Then we drove about 8 hours, and as we were passing through Columbus on our way to Dayton, we stopped at a Jeni's Ice Cream scoop shop. I mentioned picking up a pint of Jeni's Splendid Ice cream from a local grocery store back in this post, and Jeni's happens to be based in Columbus, and when I looked them up and discovered they had actual scoop shops I was dying to be able to go to one, so this trip turned out to be the perfect opportunity. 

The ice cream is made with milk and cream from grass-fed cows, and comes in delightfully unique flavours such as black coffee, whitehouse cherry, salted caramel, and lavender wildberry.

We hit the hay in Dayton, and then what else but Waffle House for breakfast. . .

Where else can you get pork chops for breakfast?

We got home on Tuesday and breathed a sigh of relief. Home. And now, life back to normal.