{"id":3264,"date":"2010-09-07T18:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T01:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:40:04","slug":"the-long-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/the-long-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n I’ve been kind of melancholy – its partially the weather, it’s been overcast every day until at least noon here on the coast, its also because summer is drawing to a close, but I’m certain that most of it has to do with the beginning of school. Moms and dads everywhere are scurrying to complete their back-to-school to-do lists, as am I, but this year it means packing up and moving the Young Baker into a dorm room hundreds of miles away. Even though at home she’s holed up in her room most of the time, she comes out for an occasional hug, she eats dinner with us most evenings, and we see her coming and going with her friends and enjoy hearing bursts of \u00a0riotous laughter escaping from the upstairs corner room.<\/p>\n But STOP, you’re not here for this! And I hate when I get so sentimental – even if it is the biggest change in my life since the day that tiny baby came screaming into my life – oh wait, that was me screaming \ud83d\ude09 Anyway, I’m going to miss her and this is my good bye to summer and all that this glorious season brings to the table.<\/p>\n Last Friday, I went to the farmers market with one of the fantastic people that I’ve met in the blogosphere. The Ardent Epicure<\/a> and I share a fanaticism for food and cooking and had fun being the first to select from a flat of late summer zucchini blossoms, marveling over a gorgeous array of heirloom tomatoes, and chatting over lunch on the patio while musing about \u00a0all the different ways we’ve seen zucchini blossoms on the countless cooking blogs we both visit.<\/p>\n