July, 2023! Happy Canada Day for us, let's start that outside summer cooking!

And, I think that it is absolutely a sign that your food was so good, you forget to take a picture? I am making something with lamb that I took out of the freezer on Tuesday................. Then son called and invited me out, then something happened, then last night I went out with my niece......................... So today, even though I am exhausted from other "stuff" I said I gotta do something with this lamb, and the very expensive chanterelle mushrooms I bought, or throw it all out tomorrow. So, stay tuned for what the end result is.

Corn on the cobb today, and a tomato salad. Possibly a hot dog is in order. We shall see.

Girls weekend is over. One of the girls had a death in the family so she had to cancel last minute as I’m getting older, I’ve cut down the number of people I invite. So much work setting up rooms and beds for a lot of people.

So for lunch we had a taco salad with fruit for dessert


For dinner we had tapas which included Spanish meatballs on crystal bread, bruschetta w fig jam and prosciutto, charcuterie board, stuffed dates and cheese sausage and olives with Spanish almond cake for dessert. Sorry I forgot to take pic of almond cake but that’s ok…I,didn’t love it




And for brunch this morning, I had several kinds of pastry and a ham cheese spinach strata.




Now I’m exhausted. No cooking for me for a few days.

bethk wrote:fabulous!  Bet everyone had a wonderful weekend!

We did. And if you saw the FB post, we made “friendship plants” mi always have some activity. Sometimes it’s a concert or a class of some sort. This time we decorated clay,pots.

The corn and the tomato salad never happened. Tina sent DD to get me eggplant and a garden salad.
She feels bad that she isn't here to cook for me. She is at her Uncles taking care of orders and hospice
workers that are keeping Uncle comfortable after the stroke he had.

bethk wrote:When you speak with Tina please tell her I'm sending good thoughts and prayers for her uncle ~ and willing HER to have strength.  This must be so wearing on her.  I hope she doesn't over-do and get over worked.

Like I said, prayers for all......

Thanks Beth. Yeah, it takes a toll on her, but she is holding up.
She is losing weight with all she is involved in; but she is happy about that for sure. LOL

Yes, prayers for all from me too. My 90 year old Uncle Ernie is also having some issues. He wanted to go visit in Germany (he still has two older brothers there) Ordered a ticket, then he had a message from what he thought was the airline (Lufthansa) and gave his cc again, and ended up with two tickets. In the meantime he was not feeling well, and wanted to cancel his ticket, and the booking agency, a discount type, is not co-operating. I'm afraid he tries to save money in the wrong spots.

He has travelled a lot and generally did his own booking, but now I think he should have gone to a travel agency.

He did a similar thing last fall with reserving a house in Florida when his niece and hubby came from Germany for the 90th. b-day party. Booked it through rent by owner, then he cancelled it because of the impending hurricane. Sorry, the rental agency said, our house was in perfectly good shape, you cancelled, we didn't. And he lost $5,000.

From Lore:


"Dinner Found a package of a bread mix called a jalapeño beer bread using a particular flour. ARVO flour. So of course I bought one and baked it today. Apparently this ARVO flour mill is one of the oldest mills in continuous operation for almost two hundred years.
My picture is some ribs, a small cucumber and onion salad, and a slice of the bread.

Mill is near London, Ontario, an easy day trip for me, o I’m planning to take 90 year old uncle Ernie there soon. He was a miller when he was young. Should be interesting for him. And me!"

From Lore:


"Dinner Tonight. Blackened (by accident) ocean perch, a mango, avocado, corn salsa and roasted fingerling potatoes."

I made a small piece of sirloin, Hasselback potato and a tomato/cuc salad last night.  Not picture worthy. Oh, just remembered, I made a mushroom sauce with the Chanterelle mushrooms I found a few days ago. Yumm!

Charlie is leaving early tomorrow with some friends who will spend the night. They are going on a float trip in the Ozarks. I fed then with an extra large dish of shrimp, pasta, onions. sun dried tomatoes in a cream sauce.

From Lore:


"Dinner Tonight. Salad of lettuce, red pepper, tomato and actually a yellow beet. I am not fond of beets, but I thought maybe cold, in a salad they would be ok. I was right. And any salad topped with all those yummy marinated sea creatures must be good! I was right."

I have so much stuff clogging up my freezer and today I didn’t want to cook, so I took out a deep dish I made while ago. Love it