YUM!! That sounds soooo good! Alas, I am a zone behind you and it has been an unseasonably cool summer, so it will be a few weeks before I can have the indulgence.
So jealous. sigh.

kay, me too on both counts! We ate lots of fantastic sugar snap peas this year, but the hot-weather stuff got planted out late and has been progressing SLOWWWWLY! No tomatoes showing even a hint of colour yet. BUT I do finally have a summer squash that set, and should be ready to pick tomorrow, hoorayyyyyyy! (Of course it won't be long before I'm saying "Yikes! More summer squash! Aieeee!!!!")

Happy harvest to you both.

Zabby

Zabby, your garden seems to be about where mine is. My eggplant has lots of blossoms but no fruit, my peppers are just not doing well, they're short and are not blooming.

I have picked three zucchini and four cucumbers, one picking of royal burgundy beans, lots of romaine and radishes, a few "baby" beets, but the tomatoes are still very green, the cilantro isn't ready, the beets are mostly too small, the brussels sprouts are just starting to make little sprouts. It's gonna be a while yet, even the corn just now started to tassel.

That baked eggplant sure sounds good....

Annie

My peppers, usually one of the most prolific crops I grow are almost a total failure this year. I believe it's a virus of some kind because the bottom leaves drop and are still green. The leaves are slightly mottled (TMV?) and not flat and smoothe like normal pepper leaves but look like seersucker. Most drop their flowers and tiny peppers. Looks like I'll have to buy peppers when the price comes down again.

annie, I think we've had very similar weather this summer!

My beans & corn are even behind yours, because I didn't even get them in until all the tomatoes were planted out. (ROyal burgundy beans are covered with flowers, oh so pretty, so I hope to be picking soon). And the corn is only waist high, and may never get farther because the cukes are in front of it, sun-wise---I had no idea when I planted them that they'd need trellising and get so tall! In the past I've had small bush cuke plants that didn't thrive. Now I have eight or ten lemon cucumber vines heading for the sky on a trellis. They just passed the height of the corn, are flowering, and at this rate should reach 6 or 7 feet easy, totally shading the corn. Sigh....

Oh, well. I only grow a handful of ears of corn for fun; have been buying some from local farmers (how DID they get it so fast? it was SO COOL in May!).

Lots of great lettuce and peas, though!

And the herbs are rocking this year. I grow them all in pots for control, and by this time some are often getting a bit scraggly from heat. But they are just fab. Lots of lovely salad dressings and marinades....

Z

Everything looks like carp in my garden except the herbs. Thak g-d for them!! Great pilaf with basil and mint, and salad with cilantro! I'm going to dry my dill leaves for use later. I had wilt this year so could not even grow tomatoes. I hope to find some though, to make some sauce and salsa this year.

You may want to consider rotating your garden crops each year. It may not be the answer but may help. I was told years ago to never grow peppers, eggplants and tomatoes in the same place more than every few years - if that! One of our gardens is so infested with whitefly the tomatoes are starting to die. Before the infestation they were thriving in the rich organic soil in that garden. They were loaded with tomatoes and blossoms and a deep green color. Nothing I've sprayed them with helps. And everything we grow is rotated.