My Weekend Six

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dawnnys

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- Friday eve was lemon tuna steaks with brown rice and asparagus. Very good, with dessert of pound cake with raspberry sauce.

- Saturday morning went to the community garden for official grand opening. I had already planted tomatoes and a few herbs - got an early start this year - including beans, radishes, and even more herbs.

- Has anyone ever heard of "seed bombs"? They had them there to take... you fill a mesh bag with a variety of seeds and compost, then hurl it into the air towards a field of weeds. I see the point of doing that with flower seeds, but to me including vegetable seeds is kinda crazy. I guess it's just my frugal roots... I mean, who is going to go out and hunt for radishes and lettuce in knee-deep grass.

- Was so pooped after planting, weeding, etc., that dinner was just warmed up chicken and rice leftovers.

- Watched "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Cary Grant (well, he wasn't actually IN the room with us ;o)) on tv Sat. night. I know it's a classic, but I just didn't get it.

- Had great intentions for Sunday dinner with roast turkey thighs, but my Sunday dinner plans will be from a bottle of Pepto Bismol. Stomach pains again, I hope it's not recurring diverticulosis...

 
Hope you feel better, Dawn! Here's ours

Dinner was:
Chickpeas with Tamarind & {?} (from Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi. Except I used kale instead of swiss chard because I had kale and I didn't have swiss chard.
Grill-roasted corn-on-the-cob with butter/lime
Tomatoes w/ avocadoes & capers
whole wheat pita with lemon hummus

Then, just to mess with the whole vegetarian thing we had going, I cooked two mutant-sized country beef ribs. Two ribs as in a whole pound per rib. Finished the final hour baking time with a local rib joint sauce (4Rivers) doctored with lemons, pepper flakes and ketchup)

Baked a whole pan of King Arthur's Granola, except with more nuts and more dried fruit. Oh, and I completely changed the sugar mixture. And the fat mixture. Alright already...we won't call this King Arthur's granola, ok!

Breakfast was coddled eggs with Penzy's Sunny Paris seasoning, Wright's seasoned bacon, avocado, whole wheat bread, roasted Garnet yam, coffee and OJ.

Is that six yet?

 
Here's mine

Thursday, I made my FM menu and shopped at three different grocery stores (uggg).

Friday, I started cooking at 7:45am and finished at 7pm.

Saturday, I got up at 4:15am and made asparagus pickles, dilly beans, chipotle mustard and hummus.
Got home at 2pm and made 24 beef and black bean burritos and delivered them at 3:15pm. Got home at 4pm and made myself a large screwdriver, fell asleep until 5:30pm then watched the latest Game of Thrones.

Sunday, I made breakfast for the boys, and have accomplished nothing else; just vegging.

I accepted a speaking engagement for a group of retired home economic association of some sort.
Speaking in front of large groups is not my thing, at all. While I was talking to the woman, I carefully inquired as to how large the group would be and was told if it is a large group, around 10 woman. Yay! That I can do. So I am going to prepare and serve them desserts; scones and lemon curd. She finally informed that it would be April 7, 2013...lol. It should be fun.

Bub is making his delicious grilled salmon for dinner and I will be making asparagus and rice pilaf to go along with it.

 
Here's mine

Friday I went to WF because I was out of pretty much all produce (hate it when that happens because I always tend to over buy then realize that on Sunday I can't go to the FM). They had the first of what I'd call truly in season organic strawberries. I toyed with the 2 local organic brands, the bigger container you could tell was gassed, so glad I went with the tiny basket for $3.99 because they were delish and red throughout.

Saturday turned those strawberries into green smoothie gold with mango, strawberries, kale and a slice of lime blended up. Yum. Did the same today only subbed 1/4 orange for the lime.

Thanks to Erin I got my book on. After getting my Love to Bake Cookbook in the mail I went on to get the

Gourmet big cookbookcolor="blue"> - still $7 at the moment!

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Homecolor="blue">

Cutie Pies: 40 Sweet, Savory, and Adorable Recipescolor="blue">

Sunset's - The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Tablecolor="blue"> (which I'd been eyeing for awhile) and because I know you want to know, my favorite dishwashing glovescolor="blue">

Right now I'm prepping some taco meat for later and waiting for Game of Thrones to come on.

 
....and mine

went to a local farm yesterday that had fresh chickens and strawberries. Today's cook a thon:

1. chocolate sorbet
2. coconut macadamia nut cookies
3. sun dried tomato and onion focaccia--okay, needs a bit of work still, not bad for my first try with a sourdough starter
4. honey wheat germ sourdough bread, not as good as last weeks!
5. roasted farm fresh chicken with rosemary and lemon--delicious!!
6. spinach salad with the fresh strawberries and balsamic vinaigrette

Kitchen is clean and I am exhausted!

DawnNYS hope you are feeling better.
Dawn MO you made me exhausted just reading your list!!
MariaD how do you embed a link?

 
and my six...

1. Waffles with plain yogurt and raspberries for Saturday morning's breakfast. We started eating them this way when decent maple syrup was impossible to find in Israel and Prague, and now it feels normal (and tasty, though I still add a few drops of syrup just because I can now). smileys/wink.gif Plus, it doesn't make me go into a sugar coma as just waffles with fruit and syrup would.

2. Saturday's lunch (our big meal): pesto chicken, wild rice with onion and toasted walnuts, salad. Simple. Lunch today: homemade coleslaw, baked turkey. And then incessant grazing at some friends' housewarming party.

3. I didn't get to try Joe's coffeecake this weekend... Darn.

4. Took Steve2LA's Orange-Cranberry muffins as a housewarming gift. (The friends are moving in three months, so it seemed like a going-away party in disguise. Very confusing. And we forgot to bring beer. But we did bring flowers and muffins.)

5. One of New York's most underrated charms: a good bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich. I think there's a whole Ph.D. in Sociology in here somewhere--every little deli/lunch cart with a grill sells these (and with varying toppings: the halal lunch carts seem to have added egg-and-cheese sandwiches with turkey bacon, for example, to their regular chicken-and-rice roster). I imagine that the kind of toppings you can get varies from neighborhood to neighborhood, but I don't have the arteries to pursue the field research, alas. smileys/wink.gif In any case, I started to think about this a lot last week when I sampled two of the local offerings. (Not all bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwiches were created equal, it should be said...)

(I know you can get these elsewhere, but they're practically an institution here, like the black-and-white cookie.)

6. This is a really underachieving list, given the glorious nature of everyone else's items, but I think I've misplaced my cooking mojo/inspiration (for the umpteenth time this year). Ah, well. My 1970s-era blender will arrive next week, and then I'll make some exciting drinks, at least. smileys/wink.gif Maybe that will help!

 
And mine belatedly....

Fri. morning I put up a stew in the slow cooker for dinner. I also made tszaki - ala Evelyn from
Athens.
Attended a good bye brunch for a friend who is moving to the US. Stuffed myself on delicious cheeses and smoked herring! But stayed away from the bread.
Home, made guacomole to go with dinner.
Sat. I spent the morning finishing a birthday cake for my 5 yr.old grandson, forgot my camera,
will forward picture when I get one.
Party was in the afternoon and I was very good -
only had one piece of home made(by my son) pizza.
He had around 10 pies in all stages of rising, etc. They were very good I imagine as they were
devoured.

Next weekend on vacation at the beach in Elat. Heaven!!

 
Embedding the links was easy, color and underlining them took some tweaking

Getting them underlined and in color - it was fighting me. Had trouble getting it to let me end the color/underline, so it may give you some fits like it did me. (I swear I do know how to write code, but it was ignoring me.)

Note: actual code is without the spacing -- I had to add spaces between the < > and code inside so it's not live/you could see it.

The code to embed a link is:

< a href="http://www.your link here.com/">name you want to call it here < /a > You could just do this and then just say xyz is a link. It's quick and easy.

The code to underline something is:

< u > and to end it is < /u >

A code to color something blue is:

< font color="blue" > and to end it is < /font color="blue" >

So for example a whole string looks like:
< a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579654363/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i03"> Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home < /font color="blue" > < /u > < /a >

 
smileys/smile.gif this will (should) work on any site that accepts HTML formatting

Most places you won't need to add the underline and color coding because the formatting for links is running in the background. Personally I was surprised that we could do any formatting (like embedding the photos) given the swap is built on such an old school platform, but thanks to Paul he's holding it together and making it work with double sticky tape and mirrors. smileys/smile.gif Yay Paul!

 
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