Garden tea

Had to take a little break and check out how the garden fared after the high winds from last night. It’s still super windy!! Seems as if it’s either raining or windy these days.

The chicken wire is to try to discourage the squirrels from digging in the garden box. I found a black walnut that was beginning to sprout in there. I’m sure they are looking for more buried treasures. Little pests.

Also check out the beginnings of another small garden. We still need to put up fencing…both the chicken wire kind and the tall kind. There are bunnies that live under the shed so we have to keep the from getting into the all-you-can-eat smorgasbord. The tall fencing is to keep the deer at bay.

Stop by Kimmies for the list of Tea Tuesday players.

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gardening, Tea Tuesday

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201103/23

Domesticity

Since we were “blessed” with MORE snow today…heavy wet snow..over the top of rain and sleet…I was homebound. Not worth getting stuck, going in the ditch or getting in a wreck for basically nothing.

I decided I’d do my best to play happy homemaker.

I baked a double batch of spritz… happy spring colors of course.

And put a yummy roast in the oven.

I also had to try and save all the seeds J and I planted over the weekend.
We haven’t had a sunny or warm day since.

They were and should be here on the cart but it’s been so cold that I feared they’d rot instead of germinate. So….

I cleared space on the mantel and turned on the fireplace to warm them. Sad but true.

I’m going to move them back to that cart tomorrow morning since it’s supposed to be sunny….not particularly warm but at least sunny.

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gardening, kitchen, not art at all

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201103/09

Wishing you…

A message left on my cupboard doors.

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kids drawing, kitchen

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201103/07

Baking failure and success

My BFF from high school, Sandy, shared a few of her dearly departed Grandmother’s bread recipes with me last week.

Yesterday, I tried the Honey Oatmeal bread…. As you can see, it didn’t turn out quite as planned. It’s still tasty, just short and dense.

Today I had much better results! I used her bun recipe only I made it with half wheat and half white flours instead of all white flour. I can’t wait to sample one!!

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Tea Tuesday

Does this look good or what?!? I’m having some basic green tea with my new favorite sandwich. It a grilled cheese with a twist. I use olive oil on the whole wheat bread instead of butter. The cheese is provolone. To give it even more flavor I use stone ground mustard, baby spinach and sliced tomato. OH YUM!

Go see what my Tea Tuesday friends are doing today!
You’ll find the links over on Kimmie’s blog…

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201011/16

Tea Tuesday with Lefse

Happy Tuesday! We’ve got light snow flurries coming down at present. But nothing like the 10+ inches of snow we got on Saturday!! That was tree branch breaking snow…this is the pretty stuff.

Today I’m having my tea with another special Norwegian treat…LEFSE. So, of course, I had to drink it out of a Scandinavian tea set.

I made the lefse on Sunday afternoon. Each time I make it I get a little better at it. I don’t use a recipe because I hate to measure. Growing up I was always around when mom made her lefse. She would talk about how it should feel, look and taste. She never measured either.

If you’d like to see what my Tea Tuesday friends are up to today, please stop by Kimmie’s blog. You’ll see the Tea Tuesday blog roll in the sidebar.

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Garden update

We’ve gotten tons of small yellow tomatoes. Also some Big Boy’s and the heirloom striped variety I traded with my friend for in the spring. We’ve also harvested a few green onions as well as some green bell and jalapeno peppers.

This is today’s sampling….