Country Mouse Monday: hot fun in the summertime

Where I live, it gets hot in the summer. Roasting hot, close to 100 both days this past weekend.

I LOVE that kind of heat -- something I never got enough of growing up in San Francisco, even though our neighborhood, Eureka Valley (aka The Castro), had some of the best possible weather, the fog held back visibly by Twin Peaks above.

July for me is a paradise: ooooh, that feeling of stepping into the oven of 90+ degree weather.

And, naturally, because it's hot, I need to bake.

Yesterday, because there were cherries, it was clafoutis.

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