Easy Victoria Sponge cake

 Daughter L baked us this lovely Victoria Sponge cake based on a Mary Berry recipe.  

My breakfast pita bread pizzas

 I made these breakfast pizzas this past Good Friday.  Catholics are to abstain from eating meat on that day.  We sometimes forget but remembered this time.  

Mix up a packet of hollandaise sauce, I have learned to stir constantly for about 3 minutes until the sauce thickens.  Spread the sauce over the pita bread, then sprinkle handfuls of shredded cheese, then bits of scrambled eggs over top.  I also sprinkled some onion powder on for extra flavour.  It bakes up in about 10 minutes at 350F in the oven.

Easter Monday 2021

Wishing you a wonderful Easter Monday!

 

4 Bean pickle soup

 Hope  you are having a wonderful Easter, as well as can be during Covid.

I had a large jar of pickled 4 bean salad pickle that I had bought at Costco awhile back.  I found a recipe for dill pickle soup and decided to alter it using some of my pickled 4 bean salad.  It was quite tasty if you like pickles.  Here is my recipe:

1 900ml box of soup stock 

1 c water

1/2 cauliflower cut into florets

2 small carrots chopped

3 small potatoes peeled and cut into chunks

1 bell pepper cut into chunks

2 c 4 bean pickle including some of the pickle juice

1/2 tsp celery salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

In a large pot add broth, water, cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, bell pepper, butter. Bring to a boil, simmer 15 minutes until the vegetables are cooked.  Add the pickles and their juice, paprika, red pepper seeds, black pepper, celery salt.  Cook for another 5 minutes.  Enjoy!

1/2 tsp paprika

pinch of red pepper seeds

1/2 c unsalted butter

My April 2021 Calendar Page

 Sharing my April 2021 Calendar page with you today.  The quote says:

"April hath put a spring of youth in everything."

- William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVIII"

Paint Party Friday - Guatape

 Welcome to Paint Party Friday!  This scene came up on my laptop screensaver of Guatape, Columbia and I did is as an ACEO(2 1/2" x 3 1/2")  in alcohol ink markers. The Rock of Gautape is a famous granite rock that visitors can climb.

Rain's Thursday Art Date - Doorways and Alleys

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art Date!  Here is my 'Doorways and Alleys' ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") in permanent markers for you today.