A Fantastic Summer Day

What a great Saturday it has been. It's been all about the beautiful weather and wonderful friends.

I started my day visiting with Barbara. I loaned her my serger and helped her set it up. We visited for a little bit.

Then home for a clothing change and off to the church to the baptism of two young women. It was so nice and the talks were so good.

From there I ran to the store and also put gas in the car.

Came home, changed clothes again, picked up Wally and went to the Smith's home to return some folding tables that I borrowed earlier in the week.

We wandered through Sue's beautiful flower garden, visited the chickens and came home with seeds from the hummingbird plant and fresh picked cucumbers and zucchini. Yum.

From there we stopped at the street corner and bought some Yakima peaches and nectarines. Then on to the gas station to put gas in the truck and to fill the gas can for the lawn mower. For we all know it won't be much longer before the green lawns return and we'll be mowing the lawn for a couple more months.

Took Wally home and picked up my layered bean dip which I had made at 8:30 in the morning.

Went to some friends new home for an open house and barbecue. Had a nice visit and was happy to see little Emma who used to be in my Primary class. It was just relaxing sitting in the backyard in the shade with the wind blowing. Just beautiful.

On the way home I stopped at Carpinito Brothers for some fresh corn on the cob, squash and bell peppers.

Here I am home again and in an hour we are heading to Black Angus for my free birthday steak dinner. Just the first of many birthday dinners in the next few weeks.

I'm loving the sunshine and the breeze today. Grocery shopping will wait till next week!

Hope all of you are also enjoying this beautiful summer day wherever you are!

And as I'm writing the radio is playing "Knights in White Satin". Brings back a ton of memories.

What's for Dinner Friday

Tonight we had ham slices with roasted red potatoes, green beans, french bread and the leftover frozen vegetables from I think two nights ago.

The recipe for the roasted red potatoes is on the Lipton Onion Soup Mix box. They are delicious. All you do is wash the potatoes (I use red potatoes with skins on) and cut into chunks, toss with olive oil and the dry soup mix and then spread in one layer on a greased baking sheet (I use olive oil spray for that). They bake at 425 for about 25 minutes. They get crisp on the outside and are so tasty.

And after dinner I sat quietly at the table and read the entire People magazine which I picked up at the store this afternoon.

What's for Dinner Wednesday

It was one of those long busy days full of activity. Worked all day from home. One trip to the doctor's office for routine blood work, two trips to the lawnmower shop, to Curves for exercise, came home, put chicken in the oven and went out and mowed the front lawn.

For a simple but good dinner, just look in your freezer. I took a bunch of Costco frozen chicken strips from the freezer and put them in a 9 x 13 pan. Looked in the pantry for sauces and decided on sweet and sour sauce. Poured it over the chicken and added a little less than half a bottle of water, covered it with aluminum foil and let it cook. After about 25 minutes I removed the cover and added pineapple chunks and continued cooking until the chicken was cooked through.

Instead of white rice which would have been great, the guys ate leftover Spanish rice without complaining. I had a bag of frozen broccoli, cauliflower and carrots in the freezer which I cooked.

I also had a cantaloupe which I bought on Saturday and it was perfect today. I cut that up and I snacked on that with dinner also. It was a quick simple dinner and I didn't have to spend much time in the kitchen.

(If anyone knows where the spell check is in the blog, please let me know!)

What's for Dinner Tuesday

I had to go into the office today, so I had a turkey breast all ready in the crock pot and Wayne just had to take it out of the fridge and turn it on. I had a late afternoon invitation to join some friends I haven't seen in awhile. We met at a nice little Italian restaurant at 4:00 pm. We ordered chopped salads and visited for a couple of hours. It was a very nice break from the routine.

I got home about 6:30 and made instant mashed potatoes with gravy, opened a can of green beans and fed the guys.

What's for Dinner

I'm going to try and record one week of dinner's at our house just for fun.

Sunday, was flank steak with flour tortilla's and spanish rice.
Monday, we had angel hair pasta with ground beef in marinara, green salad, canned corn and the greatest bread. The bread is from Fred Meyer's and it's a long slender loaf of french bread which you bake at home and eat hot, dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar.