On pronunciation

Welcome to July and Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians!

The other day I was walking through Whole Foods and noticed they had roasted tomatoes in their eatery that day. It inspired me to make my own as I had a lot of tomatoes that needed cooking anyway. I found a recipe from Ina Garten. I didn't add sugar though. Have you ever roasted tomatoes, it is not hard to do?

In other miscellaneous news, Kathy mentioned on her blog that the Iphone X is pronounced Iphone 'Ten', did you know that?  X represents the Roman numeral for ten.  It's kind of the way my kids used to correct me when I used to say' #' as 'number sign', I am supposed to say 'hashtag'.

Paint Party Friday - Beach Scene

Welcome to Eva and Kristin's Paint Party Friday. I did a beach scene for you today in my art journal (8 1/2" x 11"). It's done in watercolour pencil and crayon.

Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians! We are having a long holiday weekend.

Mint Tea

Mint

Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians!

I have mint plants growing at the side of my house, spread over from the neighbour's garden.  It inspired me to make some mint tea.  Here is an easy recipe if you want to try it.  It tasted like a teabag as daughter L said.  This made me wonder how I would make peppermint extract to make things like mint chocolate brownies!  The peppermint extract recipe sounds really easy, you steep the mint leaves in vodka for about a month.  The mint chocolate brownies sound so good too!

This led me to the discovery that the peppermint plant is a different plant than the spearmint plant.  So there is peppermint extract versus mint extract which would be a combination of peppermint and spearmint.  There is always something new to learn!  Were you familiar with all this?

Summer Flowers

It's a public holiday today, Canada Day!  Welcome to the month of July.

I was reading a magazine yesterday that said some plastic wrap is made of PVC and should be avoided where possible.  There is a safer kind made out of polyethelene.  I found more details here.

Here are some summer flowers to brighten your day!