Weekend Six - here's mine

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evan

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1) I spent the morning sorting through the pictures I took in Prague. I'll post more about the trip in a separate post, but oh my, what a beautiful city!

2) Made gluten free bread from a bread mix. A local bakery makes their own gluten free bread mix that is so good that making my own bread from scratch seems like such a waste of time. Anyways, it needs to be done, and I baked two loaves.

3) Then I made Marg's Candided Ginger & Pear Bran Muffins for DH. He loves them!

http://eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=93534

4) Went looking for rhurbarb in the garden. My plants are still young but I got a few stalks to put in the freezer and save for a rhurbarb pie later.

5) Trying to decide what to make for dinner. It's a toss up between home made italian pizza or Marcella Hazan's Swordfish Sardinian-Style with Mint & Saffron that charlie posted last week. I have been wanting to try it for several days, and today seem like a good fish-dinner-day smileys/smile.gif

6) I just discovered that I have a farm nearby that produces organic honey. I had hoped I'd have enough time on my hands to visit the place today, but I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow (for work) and I'll be gone for three days so I need to do laundury. But I try to replace sugar with honey and many people seem to believe that honey, that is produced locally, gives you health benefits when it comes to pollen allergies. The theory is that since bees live off pollen, you get small amounts of pollen through the honey and that way your body will get used to the pollen so when the pollen season comes, you won't get the allergic reactions that you used to. In other words, it's supposed to ease the allergic reactions. I have no idea if it helps but I like honey and I'm thinking, it has no side effects so why not try?

But first, laundury. Ugh!

 
True about honey! A tsp a day is all you need and it really does ease allergies.

How wonderful to have a local, fresh source. I assume he doesn't process it, but that it's raw honey?

 
Speaking of honey, I attended Marie Simmons' book signing yesterday for her new book Taste of Honey.

The samples of Salted Honey Peanut Brittle and Back Pork Ribs with Chipotle Honey Barbecue Sauce were delicious. Can't wait to try them myself along with a number of other recipes in the book that are calling my name. smileys/smile.gif

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1449427545

 
The muffins sound very good. Could you pls post a recipe for them? My six were

(I always love hearing how you all spend your weekends!)

Weeding the garden - ugh, soooo any daisies, and although I love them, they are taking up too much space. Will let them finish blooming, I guess, and then dig 'em up.

Friday night I made tilapia. After reading yesterday's post here, I wish I would've had Pat's chile-lime tilapia. Sounds very nice! Next time.

I also made a big bowl of Nicoise(sp?) salad with some leftover boiled potatoes and green beans. Oooh, so good.

We went to DH's nephew's brunch on Saturday and took some baked eggs in an avocado basket, topped with salsa. It was in the "healthy" chapter of one of the cookbooks that I bought a couple of weeks ago at the garage sale, although not exactly low-cal! Someone brought "dirt blocks?" made with Kahlua and Amaretto, very interesting, but good if diluted with enough ice! ;o)

Then my trip to the farmers' market was fun. I bought a couple of more herbs to plant, and a basket of limes, some homegrown strawberries, and some bulk spices. And my Concord grapeseed oil! 'Love going there, because there's always something different.

DD and I went out to lunch and then on a long bike ride along the lake. The came home and made a lemonade pie (wasn't that in a song somewhere? the Beatles maybe?) for Sunday dessert. I found it in an old cookbook last year, and although it's very sweet, it's good and very easy.

 
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