Summer

Summer has officially arrived in Virginia---my favorite season.  The days are humid & sticky, the air is thick with the smell of honeysuckle, and most evenings bring beautiful thunderstorms.  Most importantly, however, all my favorite foods are in season :)  Strawberries, corn on the cob, melons of all kinds, peaches, cherries, sugar snap peas, summer squash....and, most importantly, delicious Maryland blue crab.  Last week, I bought a container of fresh lump crab when they started appearing on the grocery store shelves and made these crab cakes.  They were so simple & so tasty.  Dave tried to yell at me for blowing our grocery budget on crab, but he stopped complaining after he ate them :) I've restocked our spice drawer with Old Bay seasoning and I'm waiting impatiently for our grocery budget to roll over to next month (which happens tomorrow) so I can buy more crab :)