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Rainy Days and Mondays...

 

 

Another Monday driving in the rain... seems to be getting to be a habit...

On my way to my quilting group meeting this morning , I’d driven about 2 miles when I realized I’d left my wallet (aka money and driver’s license) home... I drove very cautiously home to retrieve said missing items...

At my quilting group meeting...today was the reveal of  a member challenge quilt...comes around once every two years. Theme this time was “memories;” several quilted  the 2017 eclipse This one received first place by membership’s vote. Because I was later arriving, I missed the voting...but it would’ve been my choice too!

Decided after the meeting to have a late lunch at Nordstrom...it’s been a good couple months since I was last there. Along with the above exquisite salad - full of seasonal berries, spiced candied almonds, goat cheese, dried strawberries and a vanilla bean vinaigrette,  I also enjoyed a very tasty cup of chicken noodle soup. Yum!

 Another Monday almost ended; can’t say the same for the rain. My Seattle friends are in town...hardly any rain there these days...Go figure!

Trusting your Monday has been dry, filled with lots of sunshine and a tasty salad.

Cheers~

3 on thursday | 8.9.18

 

Today was my Thursday stitching group's gathering. We met at Hilary's and as we've come to love, the menu was beyond description:

1. Homemade split pea soup with or without sour cream...
2. Tossed salad greens, complete with walnuts, nasturtium blossoms and hard-boiled quail eggs ...is your mouth watering, yet ?... and for 
3. Dessert: a wide assortment of fresh fruit: peaches; grapes; watermelon; and tapioca with fresh peaches .

We keep telling Hilary she could open a restaurant - just for lunch; just for us!

Here's a recipe for the salad, in case you are interested. Enjoy!

Joining Carole and others this Thursday, here.

Cheers~

more peas please...well, maybe

 

     Elias' 5 months' birthday was Saturday and to celebrate, he's now eating green peas. Well, perhaps he's celebrating; it's hard to tell. He looks so stoic...

I thought it'd be fun to share a poem and found this one by Ogden Nash, from here:

 I eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.

Personally, I think champagne is tastier! Happy May Day. We're having real spring weather. At last! 

Cheers~

sometimes mondays...

 

 

...are misty and warmish and ...

...a bowl of hot oatmeal with blueberries, raspberries, banana and peaches...YUM!

...soothing to the tummy and the soul!

Have a great Monday and start to your week!

Cheers~

six minute diary | 23 dec 2017...

 
(Source: Southern Living Microwave Cookbook. Margaret Chason Agnew. Oxmoor House, 1988. p 222) *

Well, day is done, gone the sun, what have I done? 

Did: made trip to the post office for stamps and  grocery store for  the above dish; the grocery store was surprisingly quiet considering the season/date/day of the week...guess everyone was present-shopping and tomorrow, groceries... finally got around to hanging a fir wreath on front and putting out a new seasonal lawn flag ...better late than never...

Saw: a group (5-6 UPS trucks) doing a meet-up/ package handoff...gotta get those presents delivered...

Heard: Norman talking to himself as he makes spaghetti and looks for plastic cups; the latter weren't found...but he made me a tiny ( 1/2 slice) toasted cheese + ham sandwich. Tasty...

Enjoying: Tho' unseasonably warm - 64 degrees with light rain today - weather's scheduled to make a deliberate turn down with temps falling to within the high 30s beginning Christmas Day...and possible snow to end 2017! Time will tell...

Trusting that your Saturday before the holiday has been quiet and fruitful for you!

Cheers~

*I bought my first microwave oven in 1985 and since, have done most of my cooking almost exclusively in the microwave oven - even, on several Thanksgivings, roasting a full -sized turkey. I haven't made this recipe but all the others from the cookbook have never disappointed. I expect this recipe won't disappoint, either. Will share a review after the holiday. 

3 on Thursday | 9 november 2017

 

 

 

 Three  furry  friends joined today's weekly Thursday stitch-in. Five of us gathered and had a lovely three hours , starting with  a delicious brunch featuring three delicious salads, homemade biscuits and a delicious Cinnamon Apple Cake:

Recipe: 1 box yellow cake mix; 1 can apple pie filling; 3 eggs; cinnamon sugar in middle and on top. Bake at 350 degrees 35-40 minutes. Easy to freeze. 

It's so good I don't think one would have any left to freeze but maybe make two: one to eat and one to savor...

Two tickets to a concert tonight ...Norman and I are attending ...the concert, one of many performances presented by The Clarice, features a saxophone artist and is being held in a new venue on the U MD campus ....it is both a restaurant and craft bar...promises to be different and interesting...more tomorrow!

 

One more Top This hat approximately 2/3rds done! And speaking of hats: I  am, along with hundreds of  thousands of voters, especially women, ecstatic with Tuesday's election results...so unlike this time last year! Not only were there big winnings and women who won seats in their local governments, I am so impressed with the statistics that show We WOMEN voted! And in celebration I am going to wear my Women's March pink hat to tonight's concert! It's certainly going to be cold enough and the hat keeps me warm. Go Women Go!

I am joining Carole and others with this post. What are 3 things on your list? 

Cheers~

Monday Moments...

 

 

2:35 pm : Currently, sitting in the Nordstrom cafe´waiting for lunch/dinner to arrive ...

Chompin' on my salad: Today's special: a scrumptious mediterranean  chicken salad :grilled chicken, red quinoa, petite tomato, roasted eggplant, kalamata olive, spring lettuce and spinach, feta cheese and a parmesan vinaigrette ...filling and  taking a doggie bag home...

Completed shopping for Norman's birthday gift...and picked up a couple Christmas gifts---not on my list but saw something I couldn't pass up...

Couldn't (didn't) resist: a Santa Top This Hat...my.very.last.one for 2017!

Colorful - my drives to and from Columbia (today is my quilting group's meeting day): the yellows- bright; oranges - vivid; reds- glowing. I think we may have a few more days of color before all the leaves fall...

Chris' "Poison Ivy" Costume (without her) - I thought it was a tad too much for the internet. T'was a show stopper (she looked great, wore a red wig and had fun... and no prizes were awarded!)

Til' tomorrow - Halloween!

Cheers~

eats...

 

  

        I was searching the Internet this morning, looking for today's day number-248 - of the year...unless it's a leap year, then it'd be 249. I stumbled on the fact that today is also National Eat Cheese Pizza Day. Actually, this site has all sorts of reasons to celebrate every day of the year. 

Well, it's  not a secret that I really like cheese and bread...and pizza, so a day celebrating all three totally resonated...but, I wasn't wanting pizza, per se´... A while later, flipping through a magazine, I discovered  a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich with a twist: thick cut bacon; a fried egg ; and gouda cheese on asiago cheese bread (the bread in the recipe calls for asiago onion cheese bread; I don't do onions as they don't agree with me and Norman doesn't eat them either).  The recipe also calls for crème fraiche but I passed on it too, thinking I'd add fresh avocado, instead. I fixed the sandwich, minus the avocado as the one we had had over-ripened. And substituted Canadian bacon. This time around, decided to forgo the champagne! 

I served watermelon with the sandwich, which was good and filling. I think a hearty tomato soup or some of the tomato jam Kat shared on her blog would also be good. All in all, I'd say the recipe is a keeper. Next time, I think I will add the avocado...and perhaps a flute of champagne. Does the sandwich sound good to you? Do you have a favorite, go-to sandwich?

 Cheers~

The original sandwich is a signature item at the Cheddar Box food truck in Waco TX and I found it in issue 4 of the Magnolia Journal, a new magazine. 

yum: good eats...

 

 

I read today that now that Amazon really does own  Whole Foods, prices will begin to drop on many items, starting Monday the 28th. That is interesting...however, this  post shares the good eats I had today ! My Thursday stitchin' gathering changed our "start" time from 1 PM  to brunch  - 11 AM and today was our first gathering. Did we ever have a yummy spread  - and what you don't see: an assortment of various juices, grapes and a delicious raspberry pie. YUM!

Several hours later, I went to the Columbia Shopping Center to start shopping for my upcoming trip to Oregon - just one month from today - and decided to have an early supper at Nordstrom's Cafe´: this wonderful salad featured summer grilled fresh peach slices with spiced walnuts, grape tomatoes, chicken, and I added  a cup of their signature tomato basil soup. YUM!

On my way home, I toyed with the idea of stopping at Baskin Robbins for a scoop of their lemon custard ice cream---that I haven't had in at least four decades - I'm not even sure it's still on the menu - but I decided not to...One day soon, tho.'

What was on your menu today?

Cheers~

thinkwritethursday | does spaghetti grow on trees? ...

 

~Today's lunch starring yellow grape tomatoes~

            Well into my mid twenties, I thought spaghetti grew on trees. Just hold tight...you'll see where I'm going with this. I was home visiting my parents and we were chatting at the dinner table. I think that I shared this revelation because we'd had spaghetti for dinner. Both my parents were flabbergasted, to say the least. I explained that I'd not ever seen nor read anything over the years that had enlightened me - until recently (then).  We laughed about my sheltered experiences and knowledge and moved on to another topic.

I share today because this week's ThinkWrite Thursday prompt is all about tomatoes...and as I was thinking about them, the story popped into my mind...the brain does that. Very logical: one does eat some form of a tomato when one eats spaghetti, right? So, today's prompt asks us to share what we do with one of summer's abundant crops: the tasty tomato: 

• add to pizza...
• add to salads, scrambled eggs, etc...
• make  all kinds of soup... 
• slice and serve with hamburgers...
• eat as ketchup - remember the big stink about ketchup being counted as a veggie for kids' school lunches in the '90s?
• Make bread, jam, salsa and
• Spaghetti Sauce ;-)).

The  possibilities are limitless - but my favoritest way to eat tomatoes, especially grape,  is raw with or without salad...I can't just eat one

How about you? Do hop on over to Carole's blog for more ideas on how to fix/eat tomato!

Cheers~