C'mon Eva and Heather, our Weekend Six!

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dawnnys

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1. Going to a family cook-out (?rain?) this afternoon, and I wish I'd seen Barb's sausage-bean-spinach dip to take. Settled for hummus and garlic pita chips.

2. I rarely go to yard sales, but happened to stop at one on the way home yesterday. They had a zillion cookbooks. I ended up with 2 tube pans, a beautiful old Austrian (Antiques Road Show, here I come) saucer, and a box of Taste of Home's little recipe card booklets. I don't even wanna count... must be close to 50 of them. But at 10 cents each (the box was $5, so I'm assuming...), how could I not?! Also bought a hard-cover one, "Cake Doctor" by Anne Byrn. Anyone have it?

3. Went to the new build-a-taco place Friday night. Cute idea. 'Loved the cilantro-lime rice. Must make more Mexican food at home...

4. Cleaned out the refrigerator again this morning, then made raspberry pancakes with a box of raspberries that I forgot we had!

5. Fresh corn is here, yay... 'made shrimp-and-corn chowder for dinner with fish last night.

6. Neighbor gave us some of her leftover grape salad with sour cream topped with brown sugar - so we had that with the pancakes this a.m. Unusual, and a little sweet for me, but good.

 
My weekend six smileys/smile.gif

1) DH started putting in hardwood floors in our bedroom on Tuesday. It was supposed to take two days, or so he thought. But when DH does something, he does it well and I have since learned that putting in hardwood floors takes a lot of planning, a lot of "chopping wood" and a lot of thinking. A LOT of thinking. So while DH has spent most of the weekend in the bedroom, thinking, I started BBQ season outside.

2) We celebrated our 4th of July on May 17th. When the weather is good, this usually means a large family dinner but since DH's grandmother fell ill (she died on the 18th at the age of 97) we ended up BBQ-ing some hot dogs.

3) On Saturday, I had invited some neighbors over for dinner, but since DH was still in the bedroom and our bed, our dressers and everything else from the bedrooom was spread throughout the house and I haven't been able to clean the house in a week because of the mess everywhere, we decided that I should cook while we could eat the meal in our neighbors garden. I made roasted potatoes with rosemary,a big green salad with tiny, tiny sweet tomatoes that I found at the market, and we grilled some sausages I bought from a local butcher (they were delicious) along with mushrooms and onions that I had tossed with oil, salt and thyme before they hit the grill. The food came out good and the company was great, and the neighbor had even mowed the lawn before we got there (my lawn mower died last week so my lawn is also a mess. Ugh!)

4) While DH was in the bedroom thinking, and the uncleaned house was a mess and the lawn was unmowed because the lawn mower died, I went shopping. I found this really nice bench, a table and two chairs made of metal that will fit perfectly in a nook in my garden. It will be perfect for afternoon tea or a glass of wine in the evening since my nook faces southwest.
If DH asks, I will tell him I got it on sale. But of course, I didn't. Nobody sells garden furniture on sale in the beginning of the garden season. But what he doesn't know, won't hurt him.

5) I did get to cut the rose bushes this weekend, but even though I wore garden gloves, I got some nasty scratches on my hands from the rose thorns. It doesn't hurt, but according to DH it looks like I have tried to commit suicide. In the dark. While being very drunk. Guess I'll have to wear long sleves for a couple of days until it heals.

6) My neighbor is selling his house and on the property are two really old stables and he suggested to me today that I should buy them and build a gallery and cafe there. I know it would be awesome, the stables are located in a perfect spot and the buildings are in pristine condition. But I think I'm better at visiting cafes than actually owning one, so I think I'm going to pass on his offer, but it would make a really, really nice cafe. (Wish I was better at cooking and running a business. But I think writing and being employed is my path in life.)

 
I will play....

1. Made a loaf of sourdough with oats and raisins from Hamelman's Bread

2. Made a cake to take to the department tomorrow (that will be on my blog on its 4th year anniversary coming up next month, but I wanted to tackle the cake well in advance)

3. Played golf with my beloved yesterday, only 9 holes to warm up to the difficult course (Colbert Hills)

4. Exercised Friday, Sat and Sun, P90X each day, feels great!

5. Prepared a box of clothes and shoes to donate next week, transferred Winter clothes to storage (oh, I love love LOVE doing that)

6. Finished writing two blog posts to publish next week....

Life is incredibly good.... I am fully energized for next week!!!!!

 
I'll play too...weekend-ish six in quick pictures...

These are some quick food pictures over the last couple weekends.

Mother's Day was the Baked Brownies cut in heart shapes and Ina's Lemon Pound Cake done in mini loaf size (1 recipe = 5 mini loaves). Sent mom 2 loaves and a few hearts, the rest were handed out to other moms in the family. Note to self: photos with plastic wrap are a PITA.

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My grand niece's Conformation lunch last weekend. They hired two servers to help prep/clean-up. So fab we didn't have to all wash dishes!:

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Outside view from restaurant: Cannery Row in Monterey, CA after my niece's college graduation yesterday (got to watch a school of dolphins while sipping cocktails/eating lunch from our window table):

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Okay why not, here is mine...

1. Started out Friday night with a skirt steak I had laid out and DH asked if I could make steak and eggs with it since he bought home fresh eggs from a coworker. Very good. Have not done steak and eggs in forever. But he ate my second biscuit and left me dying for another biscuit for some Blackburn-Made syrup.
2. Being I am still out of a job and we are keeping costs down, we took a two for one coupon and went to Sonic - what can I say, I am a cheap date.
3. DD didn't get home with more Pillsbury biscuits until about 10:30 last night so I have a late night snack - two buttered biscuits. One with Blackburn-Made syrup and the other one with local strawberry jam.
4. Found a bunch of old and I mean OLD seeds - flowers, herbs, vegetables. Decided what the heck do I have to lose so we tilled and planted them all. Maybe we'll get lucky.
5. Found two minute steaks in the freezer so I made old fashioned steak fingers for lunch. Why did steak fingers (yeah even the cheap processed ones) disappear? Every drive thru and diner used to have steak finger baskets.
6. Found a package of shish-kebab meat in the freezer that I got marked down to less than half - $4.25 for 9 pieces of meat. Did shish-kebabs for supper. We rediscovered shish-kebabs last year after forgetting how good they are. Could have used more for 3 of us but as I pointed out, 3 pieces were probably the recommended 4 oz. portion size we should be eating.
7. Several weeks ago I decided to see just how cheap some grocery stores I don't normally shop at really are, I stopped at an Aldi. Interesting. But I am not sure that it is really THAT much cheaper on things and the selection is limited. But I got a whole chicken that is roasting and I'll make DH's lunches for part of the week with it. It is only $0.10/lb cheaper than Costco and they only have them frozen hard as a rock. And actually, for almost the same price, I can get a Costco roasted chicken. However, the salsa I got at Aldi's is one of the best jarred I have had and cheap.
8. DH's mother fell again but no broken bones/hip this time but she is going downhill and they diagnosed her with a heart problem Friday but it would require replacing her aorta and at 92, well.... So we have decided to head to Brighton, MI Thursday afternoon for the Memorial Day weekend. And I just HAD to find a way to detour through Commisky, IN to eat pie at Lurton's Cafe - the place is a trip but it is seriously THE BEST pies I have ever put in my mouth. Butterscotch Meringue is to die for and last time we came through on a Monday only to find they are closed on Mondays so I had to take this opportunity. The meringue is so light and tender that it's like eating cotton candy - just melts. Yes, I am crazy enough to detour to a hole in the wall in the middle of absolutely NOWHERE just to get pie.

 
Almost Six

1. Pot roast with roasted mushrooms – Plain old pot roast (yummy) with mushrooms marinated in apple cider vinegar, coconut aminos, garlic cloves, salt and pepper (different at least). Would have been better over a salad.

2. Baked Mustard Lime Chicken from Elana's Pantry
http://www.elanaspantry.com/baked-mustard-lime-chicken/

3. Added herb plants to the herb bed and to the deck pots (basil, thyme, mint, parsley, borage, Southernwood, Wormwood, etc.)

4. Tromped across my back yard dressed in my wellies, hot, sweaty, to visit my neighbors who were here for the weekend and to plan a future neighborhood party.

5. Hubby decided we need some under counter lighting in the kitchen – construction ahead.

http://www.preppypaleo.com/2013/05/paleo-roasted-mushroom-salad-w-dijon.html

 
Music, you made me want to fly from Europe to the US just to have a slice of that pie! smileys/smile.gif

 
Earnie, the mushroom recipe looks great. Just one question:

What is coconut aminos? I have never heard of it before.

 
Aha. Thanks Earnie. I'm not sure we have that sauce here but I'll look for it. Do you think

regular soy sauce if I can't find it in the stores here?

 
It looks good. I counted the little books, and there were 114 of them!!, not

counting the Rocco DeSpirito softcover, "Eat This, Not That".

I'll be posting some of the good ones from the mini-books, including cream cheese/sour cream peanut butter pie in a chocolate wafer crust. Yum.

 
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