Wednesday Memes

 

Non Alcoholic Beers

French language side

 My supermarket has a range of non alcoholic beers now as pictured above.  I decided to try their PC brand.  It was ok and just 40 calories for the can.  I am not a beer connoisseur but I do like the Heineken and Corona brands that I have tried.  Husband M likes the PC brand he says it has .5% alcohol.  

English language side

Edible Wild Flowers

 This is a good chart of edible wildflowers I thought would be of interest.  I have recently seen a few gourmet meals including wildflowers, very pretty and also edible.  It must be in fashion.  I recognize dandelion, day lily, violet, and rose among others.

Gillena's Sunday Smiles and Lemon rosemary potatoes

For Gillena's Sunday Smiles I am sharing my daughter's orchid plant. We are babysitting it while she is away on vacation, that is the smile. Some kids leave their pets with their parents but I am fine with a plant!  It apparently needs 10 spritzes of water from a sprayer once a week, I can do that.

 I found a recipe for Lemon Rosemary Potatoes and I simplified it for my own use.  It is delicious!

3-5 medium potatoes quartered, washed with skin on

2 tbs melted butter

2 tbs olive oil

1 tbs dried rosemary

3/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

3/4 c broth

1/4 c lemon juice

2 cloves garlic minced

pre heat oven 400F

In a 9 inch metal baking pan lined with parchment paper mix potatoes, butter, olive oil, salt, pepper, rosemary.  Arrange potatoes skin side up.  Bake 30 mins.  Add broth and lemon juice.  Bake 10 mins longer.

Decluttering

 I was on a walk a few weeks ago and noticed this small child playhouse put out for the garbage or for the taking of whoever might come by.  It is that decluttering time of year.  My nephew's little girls are at the perfect age for these kinds of toys.  They live in the U.S. 

Friday Art - Cat

 I drew my sister-in-law's cat, it an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1.2").  Linking to Nicole's Friday Face Off and to Gillena's Art For Fun Friday.

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Petals and Spelt Pancakes

 Welcome to Rain's Art and Dinner Date!  The theme is Petals.

This is a 'fallen petals' piece I did way back in September of 2013 that I located in an old blog post!

For the Dinner Date I am showing some spelt flour pancakes I made.  They are so light and fluffy,  perfect with a little syrup.

Here is the spelt flour pack I bought along with the pancake recipe on the back. It made a lot more than 4 pancakes, maybe a dozen. Thanks to Ivy at The Happy Whisk for encouraging me to try spelt flour.  She says there are white or brown spelt varieties.  This is brown whole grain spelt.

Wednesday Memes

 

Crustless Quiche with leftovers

 I was inspired to make another crustless quiche using this recipe.  Then I realized I had leftover sausage, broccoli and mushrooms which I substituted.  So if you have leftovers you could do something similar.

6 eggs

2 1/2 cooked Italian sausages chopped

1 onion chopped

2 tbs olive oil

1 c cooked broccoli, chopped

1/2 c cooked mushrooms

1/2 c sundried tomatoes from a jar, cut up

1-2 c shredded cheese

1/4 tsp black pepper

Preheat oven 350F

saute onions in olive oil

beat eggs in a bowl, mix in shredded cheese.  Add broccoli, sausage, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes

spread into lined pie plate bake 40-50 min until an inserted knife comes out clean.

Shed completed

I posted last week about Daughter L's backyard shed being assembled.  They got it done just before the rain started the next day.  Isn't it beautiful?  They started at midday on the Saturday and it was done by 1 pm the next day Sunday.  

It is the Victoria Day long weekend here, enjoy!  Many consider it safe to start planting now.

Wake-up Call

 

The weeds in the area have been looking so pretty.  We had a lot of rainfall earlier in the month and they are blooming wildly.  A friend told me that the plant with the small white flowers in the top photo is garlic mustard, an invasive species unfortunately.

Husband M met up with an old friend to see a movie a few weeks ago.  They got a chance to catch up on each other's news.  Well, this friend had been putting off going to the doctor and the blood test results came back.  His A1C reading was 12!  He needs to make drastic changes to his diet.  His wife makes wonderful desserts and they do enjoy their wine.  These will be the hardest adjustments for him to make.  It is a wake-up call indeed.

They enjoyed the new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 movie.  It is a box office hit.  So there was something good about that day.

Amaryllis!

 I was so happy to see this amaryllis bulb in bloom!  It is a red one that I had given up on and almost threw it out after winter.  There it sat sprouting in the garage finally!  I will try to remember to keep it watered over the summer and hope it blooms.

Friday Art - Good Friends

 This is a portrait I did of my niece and her horse based on a photo my sister-in-law took.  It is an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") in watercolour crayons.

Linking to Nicole's Friday Face Off and to Gillena's Art For Fun Fridays.

This ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") is called 'Ivory'.

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Moon Phases and Impossible Pie

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date.  For the Moon Phases theme this week I found this Kids video demonstrating the phases of the moon.  If I knew this I had forgotten!  

Here are my Moon Phases pieces:

Waning Crescent

And sharing this Impossible Pie I made with a recipe shared by Denise.  It only has 4 ingredients.  It tasted like a sponge cake, pretty good and so easy!  I didn't use a blender.  After I tested it with a knife the pie fell but that was ok.

4 eggs

1/2c flour

3/4 c sugar

2 c milk

Mix all ingredients together and pour into a pie dish lined with parchment paper.

Bake at 350F for 45 minutes.  Test doneness with a toothpick.

Wednesday Memes

 

Mona Lisa Updated

The Potluck

Daughter L went to a friend's birthday party recently. She shared this photo of some of the party food. It looks so pretty.  It is a breakfast platter.  They often do a potluck, it is a lot easier on the entertaining.

The large shed

 Daughter L and her husband bought this lovely large shed at Costco.  Her in-laws came to town to help assemble the shed using the 95 page instruction booklet. It is Ikea times a hundred.  Here it is almost 2/3 done.  My shed came with assembly included all those years ago, husband M and I are not handy.  M did help where he could with this new one.

Sesame dressing and marinade

 I love going to Costco and trying all the free food samples.  On this particular day they were featuring this delicious sesame marinade/dressing.  They cut up small pieces of roast chicken which was generously dipped into the dressing.  It was so delicious I had to get a bottle.  It is also very good with salad.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom out there!

Here are the ingredients and nutrition information:

See the Gator?

Creeping out from under canoe

 

One of my sisters was in Orlando Florida recently for a family wedding on her husband's side.  There was a backyard lagoon at her in-laws' house with fish and yes can you spot the gator in the photos above?