So, here we are

Ok. It's weird, I know, but it seemed like an excellent idea at the time. Very impressive, I swear.

It all starts when a friend suggests that raw zucchini is a good time. You're skeptical, but they're adamant, and the "hurricane" has introduced enough rain to your old zucchini plant that you still have more growing. So it goes.

So! Grab a smallish zucchini and slice it with a carrot peeler so that it produces thin wide ribbons, which you can put in a small bowl with a homemade vinaigrette. That business goes in the fridge. Side dish complete!

Up next: fresh corn pesto and baby potatoes.

Gather up all the small potatoes from the third row of your garden and boil them with two ears of corn in your grandmothers old soup pot. By this time, you should also be frying up some bacon. Take the corn out and let it cool down a bit. Put the potatoes in the toaster oven.

Eat the first ear of corn (cause you're hungry) and use the same pot to boil different water for the fanciest pasta you've got. Add it. Drain the majority of the bacon fat from the pan you fried it in. Add a couple cloves of minced garlic and the white part of an onion from the garden to the leftover fat and keep on fryin. Add in some pepper and also the kernels from the second ear of corn. Break up the bacon into smallish pieces and throw em back in too. Stir! Dump it all in a food processor and add grated parmesan, walnuts and olive oil (only a little). Process! Turn on the toaster oven with the potatoes in it.

Here comes the magic:
Drain the pasta, but reserve about a cup of the water. Put the pasta back in the pot and then add the pesto. Rock it on medium. Slowly stir in some of the leftover water until you've reach desired consistency. I'd like to suggest that this was the element that our pesto was missing, not extra oil or salt. I think I might be anti-salt. Is that a deal breaker?

Put all of these things on a nice blue plate. Grate some extra cheese over everything and take it outside for a picnic with your cat. It may not have been the prettiest meal, but it was certainly delicious. Well, everything except the zucchini salad. That was weird.

There are no details about the cocktail, as I hear that my audience has no interest in such things.