Garden and Liquor.

We have had a very cool and rainy summer. Cool for us. Only in the 80's and wet.
 It seems like it rains every day. I am sure there have been days where it hasn't rained, it just doesn't feel like it. 

But all this rain has made my veggies grow like crazy. My deck is overwhelmed in veggies. Tomatoes, peppers, brussel sprouts. I've never had tomato plants so high and so many tomatoes. 

Here are some of the poblanos that I picked one day. I get these every few days. Over the weekend we stuffed them with prosciutto and cheese and grilled them. Oh, my were they good. My tomatoes are out of this world. The big ones we have stuffed with chicken salad, topped with cheese and baked. We are in tomato heaven right now. Mmm.....yummy.

My jalapenos are terrific too. I love hot and spicy and boy this are both. They are thick walled too. I'm impressed with our veggies this year. I wish I had a back 40 to really grow things.

I had so many cherry tomatoes I made this which  I saw on a blog. I took them to a party over the 4th. But instead of just putting them in a container I put them in a melon 'cause it looked cuter and that's how I roll. Seriously it was a bloody mary in a bite. I loved 'em..

We had a very small seedless watermelon.
We saw a thing on Rachel Ray where they made it look like a frog. We did that, like this below.
Only instead of fruit we put in the marinated cherry tomatoes along with the liquor.

We then followed the recipe for the Bloody Mary Bites. We filled this frog with them after they marinated for several hours. I put the dipping seasoning into 2 limes that I had hollowed out.  I then put them along with the toothpicks, in front of the frog on a platter. These were a huge hit. 
We, of course, doubled the recipe because we had that many cherry tomatoes. 

At first when this was on the table everyone crinkled up their nose and said, "What's that?"
But as soon as you say, Bloody Mary bites, try one - everybody of course did just that. 
They were a huge hit and were the first thing to be emptied. Everyone kept asking for the recipe. Thank you blogger friend!

Here is the recipe - don't say I don't give you anything. ( I doubled this)

1 pt cherry tomatoes
2 Tbs. Franks hot pepper sauce
1 cup pepper vodka
2 tbs lemon pepper seasoning
2 tbs celery salt.

Gently poke a few holes in each cherry tomato and drop them into a bowl or jar. Add the Franks hot pepper sauce and pepper vodka to cover. Let them marinate in this for about 2 hours prior to serving. To serve - Combine the lemon pepper seasoning and celery salt. Using cocktail picks dip the marinated tomato into the seasoning salt and enjoy!