Gosh, sometimes a four day work week can be harder on a person than a 5 day work week...do you ever feel that way? Well, one more day and we're done with it (unless you have to work the weekend...ew).
Well our weekend is steadily getting busier and busier. Friday is Daniel's birthday and Saturday is Melanie's birthday. I have to get cards for them tonight when I stop at Food Lion. You should have seen the card I sent Dizzy Debbie - it was perfect! We're invited to go to a little bar called Memories and from what I hear, the Pee Wee's crowd will all be there... lol, like that's much of a crowd :)
Claudia was sick from Friday through Monday so she wasn't able to deliver the irises and hostas. She's planning to deliver them this weekend at some point so I'll have some planting to do for sure. They say it's going to rain Saturday and that would certainly make the planting much easier - wet ground is preferable to dry, hard, rocky ground... :) The Grinder Switch Music and Arts Festival is in downtown Centerville this weekend. They have the obvious music (bluegrass and gospel) and art (I assume local?) and of course more food than you can imagine. I would love to go but it sounds like it might get rained out and if I have all that planting to do I don't see how I can fit it in. Soooooo much to do, sooooooo little time!
Sunday, the Titans are playing the Raiders and I plan to be in front of the tv watching the game with a pot of beef-barley stew cooking on the stove! Calm down - I'm not converting to a Titan's fan but when in Rome... besides, I don't get the same games here that you get in FL. Brett Favre is playing the Saints tonight and I know you'll all be cheering for him to win :) ha ha ha ha ha
My CSA basket delivery resumes on Monday - Yeah!!! I'm told there should be radishes, arugula, okra, and potatoes. Now that we know diabetics can have potato salad (or any form of cold potatoes), it's kind of like a treat in our home. I always do the ranch dressing recipe with bacon bits and scallions - yum! I miss making it for all y'all at the Oriole's... maybe next time I'm down for any length of time. With the weather cooling off, I'm thinking a big ol' pot of gumbo is where the okra will end up and the arugula and radishes will make a fine, crispy, spicy salad for my lunches. I saw a recipe where you soak the radishes in really cold water for a couple hours then slice them super thin. You take a slice of bread (preferably whole wheat but not mandatory) and spread it with butter (the real stuff people!) then top it with the radishes and sprinkle some sea salt on top. Sounds good to me - how simple can it get?
Arugula is a kind of peppery tasting lettuce so a sweeter dressing is usually best on it. I'm thinking maybe a raspberry vinaigrette would be good... some chopped up walnuts and the radishes - sounds like a plan. I'll let you know how all that works out.
Yesterday we had to turn the air conditioner back on...:( It just didn't stay cool enough to leave it off and I can't be too hot or I get, well, cranky I suppose you could say... lol With any luck maybe it will cool off again this weekend because it was so nice having the doors and windows open for those few days.
I picked a whole bunch of tomatoes off my plants and have been trying to eat them all up before they go bad. Those plants are really putting out some fruit. As I said before, they are little pear shaped tomatoes and not the kind I can put in canning jars but they taste delicious and work well in salsa, salads, or just plain right straight from the bowl. I eat a handful every day! I picked a yellow squash and there's another one that's just about ready. My sage is growing like a weed and I've been pinching off leaves every other day. The basil was blended into pesto with walnuts and olive oil. It's in the freezer for another day. My little cilantro plant is about 3 inches tall... lol it's so funny when I compare it to the cilantro in the store. I've never successfully grown cilantro and I don't know what it is I do wrong but it's quickly replacing the geranium as the sacrificial plant in my garden... ha ha ha
A little history on that... Aunt Karen and I used to each buy a geranium every year and every year our geraniums would die. We could never figure out why so we called them the sacrificial geraniums. I haven't tried growing one here yet but I will - gimme time, gimme time! Never a dull moment with Aunt Karen - I think we sacrificed geraniums for a good 10 years... ha ha ha
Last night we had roast beef sandwiches for supper. It might sound boring when presented in that manner but let me tell you, I kicked them up a notch! I chopped up some onions and mushrooms that I sauteed in butter with salt, pepper and oregano. I chopped up the roast beef into really thin slices and added that to the onion mixture. When it was all heated through I put it on a whole wheat bun, spread with horseradish cream, topped it with provolone cheese and put it under the broiler for a few minutes... gooey, melted, salty cheese on top of warm, juicy, roast beef mmm good! That's it, that's all we had. Pretty cool, huh?
I cleaned up the kitchen, filled the bird feeder and hit the sack. I think I probably made it through one episode of Everybody Loves Raymond before slipping off into slumberville zzzzzzz I must have been tired because I slept until 5:00 this morning. I'm usually on the road by then so I don't know what happened. It was okay though because on my way to work I saw about 20-25 turkeys feasting on the church grounds on Sneed Road. They could be there every morning for all I know but it's always dark so I wouldn't be able to see them if they were. Going in late does have its benefits :) Having to stay late... uh, not so much.
I think we're cooking on the grill tonight and I know for sure I'm making the butternut squash puree recipe that Teri gave me. I love cooking those squash because they make the whole house smell so good - kind of like those pumpkin spice candles you buy around this time of year. I might even have a few of those in my candle stash...
Hey, if anyone is having a Pampered Chef party, let me know. I have a few things picked out that I'd like to get but if the order could count towards a party for someone, I'll wait to put it in.
I'm still trying to get the lard making pictures to go to my email but they still aren't going. I can't figure out why one day, all the pictures will go and then the next day, nothing. It makes no sense at all. It's times like these when I need one of the kids up here with me so they can figure it out LOL!
Sorry the post is so short today - work keeps getting busier and busier...ugh! Maybe I'll have some time to get on here tomorrow, we'll see :)
"He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life." George Matthew Adams
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