February 2024 - Spring is coming, soon!

Thanks, as always, Beth.
Last night's dinner looks really anemic! Guess I should have turned the heat up a bit to make the potatoes crisp up and get a little brown. We do eat with our eyes too.

Trying to think of making something different for tomorrow's Tapas in my building. So many appetizers that I have looked at have items in their recipes which contain either mushrooms, spinach or seafood. there are three members of our group which are allergic to these particular items. Interestingly, they are all women. Last week I made lemon meringue tarts.

Thanks. I decided to make a smaller version of the spicy Kaftas that I made this week. I made too much of the meat mixture, so I have some in the freezer. I will make a zatziki sauce to go on them. The fact that they are on a skewer makes a perfect hand held!

Why say that you're terrible. It sounds like you had a wonderful day. My Kaftas were very well received today. Fun evening.

Today was Steve’s birthday and he always gets a German chocolate cake to celebrate. This one came out flatter than usual but I knew it was going to be. Oh well. He still loved it

bethk wrote:Even sideways he looks happy about his birthday cake!

(the thinner layers are just better to hold that delicious filling!)

I don’t know why it came out sideways. I tried fixing it here but couldn’t. It came out correctly everywhere else. Weird.

No cooking for me today. I went to a 90th b-day lunch for DIL's dad today. At a very nice restaurant. Our choice of soup or salad, three different entrees, I had a chicken parm; then coffee/tea either chocolate cake or cheese cake. I had cheesecake. So much for my diet today!

Sounds great both what you ate, and what's coming.

I thought about having a chili dinner here in the building in the future. In a couple of weeks we're having a TAPAS party. We'll see how that goes.

From Lore:


"Dinner Tonight. Leftovers of the kofta I made last week with some tzatziki on them; tomato cucumber and onion salad with feta; and the very interesting and delicious purple sweet potato. This sweet potato, at least that I think it is, is new in my grocery store. A deep purple, and creamy as if it had cream in it. I think the colour must come from beets! Very nice. I will definitely get them again.
So, now we have the regular one, orange inside. Another one white inside, and this purple one."

WOW! THat was fast! I haven't even gotten up to clear my spot! lol

"Love it when a plan comes together".... Loved that show, don't remember what it was called, but I remember Mr T, distinctly!  And your plan is great too.  They will be so much tastier after having been done on the grill!

PS................... I remember the name of the show, The A TEAM!.  Loved it, and loved George Peppard and that Quote.  I asked film critic GOOGLE about him.  There's a picture of him with a cigar which he always seemed to have in his mouth.  Died of lung cancer.

This was a quick and easy meal that I was going to make three days ago but Charlie was at a car show for the last three days and not here as supper time so I made it today.

Made chicken cordon bleu. They aren’t as pretty as usual and darn, the plate is monotone, but it sure was good.

THat salad looks wonderful  That's what I had planned for tonight, but I was looking for stuff in my freezer, and lo and behold I found another package of Lake Erie PERCH!  So, that's what I made, and some oven roasted veggies Onion, red pepper, snap peas and mushroom.  Picture coming, Beth!












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