We picked our first mess of Kentucky Pole Beans, and man.... they were good!

Combined with some fresh tomatoes and hoe cakes; that is some good eatin’.

Hoe cakes are a traditional Southern cornmeal pancake that are supposed to have been so-named because they were originally cooked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire.

I always substitute an iron skillet for the hoe blade, but I’ll give the blade a try sometime.