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.