Yes, I know this is late.
Katie, Lauren and I spent our Labor Day weekend at our own annual Tomato Fest.
This year we canned tomatoes and sauce. The sauce takes forever!
Lauren had so much '”fun” she bought 8 more bushels of tomatoes and did her own canning. If I am nice to her, she might let me have some. Yum!
So at 3:00 I decided to look for something to cook for dinner. I found a recipe and surprisingly I had all the ingredients. I defrosted the turkey tenderloin( I lied-I had to sub in the turkey for chicken tenderloin) and at 5:00 I started cooking.
I guess I should have read directions along with the ingredients. 45 minutes later this was ready to go into the oven:
It is a potato crusted chicken and veggie casserole. It has to cook 45 more minutes.
This is what my kitchen looked like:
What you can’t see is the bottle of Kahlua that fell and broke inside that corner cabinet. I don’t drink Kahlua, I don’t like Kahlua, I don’t know why there was Kahlua in that cabinet.
So I have more than enough time to pick up the kitchen before my casserole is done.
I will let you know how it turns out.
Adrienne, Joe and Leonard are here this weekend. We are going to have our family Christmas tomorrow. Do you know what that means? I get to open a present! Yes!!
Here we all are decorating cookies last night:
It is wild and crazy-and noisy!-when we are all together but I wouldn’t have it any other way!
My husband came home last night and told me there was a package on the front porch. I get a lot of deliveries but I was not expecting this:
Adrienne and Joe sent me an herb wreath for my birthday (next week). Right now it is hanging where my clock that hasn’t worked in years usually hangs. It was suggested that I hang it on the side of my fridge so that I can use as I am cooking.
Isn’t it pretty? Thank you Adrienne, Joe, and Leonard! I love you and miss you!
Actually I have had lots going on in the past couple of weeks.
I will start with a small family celebration. Last week my nephew visited from Philadelphia so my brother-in-law had a barbeque. This side of the family has not gotten together for a while so it was nice to catch up on all the gossip.
My nephew John and his girlfriend, Abby
Lauren and Jeff
Dylan and Marin
Dylan, Marin and Megan
I love watching the little ones interact. Our family is growing and I couldn’t be happier!
Monday, Kate and Lauren came over to can tomatoes. We got 29 quarts and 6 pints of tomatoes. Is it worth it? I like to believe that along with having tomatoes all winter but we also created some good memories. We also reminisced about my mother-in-law who taught me how to can. Now Katie is the expert, keeping us up to date on newer methods.
Finally, I am in the middle of making cookies. 300 to be exact! Shophop at Mission Rose starts next week and Kate and I are doing pineapples. (I do cookies-she decorates)
Just three more batches to go!
This will be one post with several items. I hope that you will find something that you will enjoy!
First, our guild had our annual picnic this past week. Since the theme was summer garden, I brought these to share:
I baked and Katie decorated. Delicious!
The boys were having some fun and decided to put on each other’s shirts:
They are showing off their muscles. They are too goofy!
Do you remember the sashiko I was working on during the trial? (And I don’t want to talk about it!) I finished one and started another. The new on is white and I am using variegated thread.
Michael took a picture of my latest finished top. It is a striped fabric from Marcus-very quick to do:
It is a little blurry-sorry.
Finally, I have learned to make a decent mocha latte-with only 3-or less weight watchers points.
I make a pot of coffee-10 cups with enough coffee for 12 so it would be stronger- and I stick it in the fridge to cool it down (hot coffee never gets cold enough no matter how much ice I add).
To make the latte I fill a 16 oz. glass with ice and fill it 2/3 with coffee. Then I add 1/2 cup skim milk, I T. chocolate syrup and sugar (or substitute) to taste. I thought it tasted pretty yummy! If you decide to try one, let me know how you like it.
Have a great weekend and I will see you Monday!
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