Signs of Summer Foods

It has been too hot to get on the road, so I have been staying at home for a couple of days. I have been doing the obligatory laundry, dusting and vacuuming and lots of cooking. Today I prepared a couple of old favorites: Stuffed Green Bell Peppers with Cheese Sauce and Vidalia Onion Pie. When I was pregnant with my second child (1980), I entered a recipe contest sponsored by a local newspaper. To my surprise I won the summer vegetable category for my Bell Pepper recipe. The dish had its beginning in a huge paper sack of the largest bell peppers I had ever seen. My husband, an Exxon employee at the time, bought the peppers from a colleague who had a garden. He purchased them for $1.50. Thinking back on this makes me sad that I had to pay $1.00 for two peppers at the grocery yesterday. My chore was to "do something" with all those peppers! Thus the recipe. I even had a picture of myself in the newspaper for winning the contest! I am sure there was some sort of pr