Wednesday Started Out With Relish!

I was up at 7:15 this morning…vacation or not.  Its an overcast, cooler kind of day just perfect for making my relish.  Last night I left the zucchini, onions and salt to mellow until the morning.  I now know why.  See all the liquid it pulled out?   I rinsed and drained the liquid and added the [...]

Monday After First Vacation Weekend

I had a really nice long weekend stateside.  We had a delicious fish fry dinner at the Village Inn on Friday night.    That area just loves their Friday fish fries.  You see signs up everywhere for them.   Actually though we had the baked fish with almonds on top and it is sooooo good.  Just perfect after a [...]

Confetti Zucchini Pepper Relish —- and puzzle

Today has been a rainy day…dark…and rainy.  Once of those days when you feel like baking or cooking or sewing something.  You know?  One of those days.  I can’t craft since I don’t have any supplies with me but I will share with you some finds from yesterday.  I can’t download pics today so I [...]

Oatmeal Cookie Sandwich with Nectarine Ice Cream

On the weekend Marc bought an ice cream maker.  Does anyone have one and use it?  We love ice cream and have talked about this often.  We couldn’t use it yet because we realized we had to put the insert into the freezer for 8 hours and didn’t have the time to do that when [...]

Happy 4th of July!!

Happy 4th of July to you!  I hope its a very special day whether you spend it with family or with friends or doing something special just for you.
We’re going to a flag raising just down the beach.  There will be songs song and poems read and then we’ll all have American hot dogs and [...]

Chocolate Raspberry Torte for Happy Mother’s Day

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.  I baked a cake.  The mother isn’t supposed to bake her OWN Mother’s Day cake is she? hmmmmm…but then we are celebrating my younger son Richard’s birthday also.  I wanted to try this new cake so its his cake and a Mother’s Day cake for sharing with my mother and daughter-in-law.  [...]

Saturday Night - Spaghetti, Sour Cream Apple Cake (feast) and Feast of Love

I really enjoy a good apple cake and thinking about it also lemon cake (no contest next to chocolate though).  I tried a new recipe this weekend and it was very very yummy.   I had some sour cream I wanted to use up.  The sour cream helped make it so moist.

Sour Cream Apple Cake
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Tagged for 7 Weird Things People Don’t Know About Me

I have been tagged by Kathleen for this meme some time ago and I feel badly that I haven’t worked on it before.  Off the top of my head I couldn’t think about weird things I’d write about knowing full well there are weird things about me…
The rules are:
1.Link back to the person who tagged [...]

Stuffed Red Peppers

 
My workplace office is really a great place with great people to spend the day with.   Everyone is part of a great support team, with laughter, helpfulness and regard for each other.  And I think the fuel of it is…………….food!  *grinning*.  Everyone loves to eat and participate.  It doesn’t take any particular reason to celebrate something [...]

How to Throw a Tea Party

I came across this site and was really interested since I’m a first thing in the morning coffee person who is really appreciating tea these days.   I still need that first cup of coffee to sort of start me up but later in the afternoon I love a tea to soooothe the day.   It sounds like fun [...]