Wednesday Memes

 

A wonderful time of year

 My friend S dropped off some fresh cut asparagus from her sister's farm.  I share my neighbour's chives with her.  It's a wonderful time of year.

Thoughtful Gift

 One of my sisters will miss my upcoming June birthday so we all met up for dinner recently and she gave me this birthday gift, she knows I am always outside weeding at this time of year.  

It was also great to have both of our families together and we had a good chat, it was 10 of us.

Sunday Smiles - Ancient Street Lighting

 Linking to Gillena's Sunday SmileSunday Smiles.

Enjoy your Sunday.

Italian Almond Orange Cake

I finally got around to trying this almond cake by Manuela. It required me using this old egg separator that I had and an old (new) juicer. I had requested this juicer from my wedding registry decades ago and this might be the first time or second time I've used it! It is a lovely appliance. We tend to just eat fresh fruit as opposed to juices.  I used a sugar free liquid sweetener along with almond flour for this recipe as well.  It does have the juice of one orange.  The cake bakes up in an oiled spring form pan at 350F for about 40 minutes. My cake took 50 minutes.  It tastes like a pound cake, quite nice.

old (new) juicer

 

Just out of the oven nicely browned

oops- the bottom came off when I turned the cake over

Friday Art - Galapagos Hawk

 Welcome to Friday Art!  This is a Galapagos Hawk.  It is an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") in watercolour pencil.

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

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Vincent Van Gogh and Salmon Party Pinwheels

Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date! 

This is my piece for the 'Vincent Van Gogh' theme (3 1/2" x 3 1/2").  It is inspired by his Sunflowers.

For the Dinner Date, I made some Salmon Party Pinwheels using this recipe.