17 Sunday Aug 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, corn on the cob, family, garden, moments, sandwich, technique, tomato, widow
as a child when we had corn on the cob it was always with fresh tomatoes, lol…
yesterday I had some excellent corn with a bit of garlic sausage…
today I made a delicious toasted tomato sandwich with another tomato from the garden…
seems like my technique of bringing them in just as they start to turn from green and putting them on the shelf in the kitchen has been working…
10 Thursday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cheese, dad, family, food, lunch, memories, memory, moments, remembering, sandwich, sardines, widow
today, as I was making my lunch, I was reminded of my dad…
he loved sardines and would often make a sardine sandwich for his lunch when he was home…
when he worked he had a cheese sandwich every single day🤪…
back to the sardines, lol…
he would smash them up in a bowl with a fork and a bit of the oil from the container and then put the mix onto white bread…
I mashed mine up and then topped up some premium crackers with the mixture… tasty and went well with the cucumber, onion, tomato salad which I also made…
sweet memory;-)…
15 Friday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cheese slice, food, grilled cheese, moments, onion, plastic, sandwich, sourdough, widow
made a grilled cheese sandwich for supper…
I like to use packaged sliced cheese and put two on the first piece of bread to see if I needed three… the two were perfect, so I put the other one away…
next I got an onion, peeled and sliced it on top of the cheese… I added butter to the second slice of sourdough, topped the first and buttered the outside…
put the sandwich in the frying pan and cooked it slowly before turning it over…
came out beautifully…
because the bread was large I proceeded to cut it into four and was irritated that it wasn’t cutting well…
at which point I realized the plastic was still on the cheese, omg…
took a while to squeeze the cheese out of the plastic and add another piece of cheese (without the plastic) to make up for the cheese that didn’t make it out, lol…
too funny…
28 Monday Oct 2024
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apple crumble, big girl pants, blessed, crumble, friends, lunch, moments, Park Cafe, Reuben, sandwich, time, treat, widow
met up with friends to celebrate a birthday…
we went to the Park Cafe and my meal was very tasty…
my Reuben sandwich came with a garden salad and I really enjoyed it… it was just the right size, not too hard to eat, which I appreciated… I ate all of the salad and half of the sandwich…
packed up the second half and the pickle for my supper…
and then I had the apple crumble with caramel sauce and ice cream…
it was delicious, and to my credit, I only ate half of it🤪…
always fun to spend time together…
01 Thursday Aug 2024
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basil, big girl pants, blessed, cream cheese, cucumber, garden, moments, peas, picked, plants, sandwich, sourdough, widow
this morning I went to the garden to harvest some peas…
while I was out there I discovered that the cucumber I saw on Monday had grown like crazy… apparently they like crazy heat, lol…
I collected the peas, some basil, and the lovely cucumber…
decided on a cucumber sandwich for lunch… with some fresh sourdough and cream cheese…
after peeling the cucumber, I used the mandolin to make thin slices…
enjoyed the sandwich in the garden with coleslaw I’d made on Tuesday;-)…
13 Wednesday Sep 2023
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bacon, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, family, food, garden, lunch, Miracle Whip, moments, mouthwatering, sandwich, tomato, widow
on Monday, I made a toasted tomato and bacon sandwich, with a tomato from a friend…
it was delicious and reminded me of my beloved…
he made the most delicious tomato sandwiches…
I couldn’t figure out why they were so delicious… at some point I realized that he used a ton of Miracle Whip…
but, my oh my, they were mouthwatering…
26 Wednesday Jul 2023
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beefeater, beefsteak, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, garden, growing, Jonathan’s Farm, loaf, moments, nature, plants, sandwich, sun, tomato, widow
in May, I was very happy to be able to get some veggie plants delivered from Jonathan’s Farm…
amongst them were some very nice beefsteak tomatoes, which for some reason I keep calling beefeater, lol…
I planted one in a pot on the deck and it produced a lovely large tomato which has gotten more beautiful by the day…
last night I got a fresh loaf of bread and today I picked the tomato and made a delicious tomato sandwich…
yum, what a wonderful treat;-)…
26 Monday Jun 2023
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beach, big girl pants, blessed, bread, cookies, family, memories, moments, sandwich, snack, treat, village, Village Green Bakery, widow
Sunday morning we made sure to be up in good time to get to the Village Green Bakery at Victoria Beach…
they have the most delicious bread and yummy cookies…
you don’t want to be late or the good stuff might all be gone;-)…
we picked up a loaf of bread, a smile cookie, a coconut and oatmeal cookie, a double chocolate cookie, and two sausage rolls…
we sat in a lovely park and had a snack of some of the goodies and then checked out their beach…
home for a sandwich and then some reading and napping… couldn’t wait to take a picture of the whole loaf, lol…
17 Saturday Mar 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, fried egg, hyacinth, memories, pink, purple, replicate, sandwich, scent, widow
thinking of my beloved a lot recently… for the past few days I’ve been thinking of his fried egg sandwiches…
this morning I made an open-faced version using some of the French bread from La Belle Baguette that I picked up yesterday…
I can’t replicate what he did… they were always especially yummy… although that might have to do with how much butter he would add to the bread, lol… and the eggs were always perfectly cooked with soft yolks…
I picked up a few hyacinths the other day… left one at work and brought one home for the bedroom… just love the scent as they open… as it bloomed, discovered that it was pink… I usually get the purple ones…
made me realize how much pink there is currently in the bedroom… I held the hyacinth up to the new curtains which have purples and pinks in them… then realized that my afghan has pink in it as well… and when I put away some laundry in the closet – which I recently hung by colour – I spotted some pink as well…
very interesting as pink has never really been one of my colours…
17 Saturday Sep 2016
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I’ve been using Saturday as my lazy day…
trying to make time on Fridays to have a meal or visit with friends and book any appointments I may need, so relaxing on Saturday makes sense…
soccer is over so the kids will be coming again for dinner on Sundays… I try to do grocery shopping and a few chores around the house that day as well…
today I barely got off my butt… it was beautiful outside but couldn’t even get up the energy to go out to sit for a while…
eventually I went out and brought in the six plants that need to overwinter in the house…
not sure how I feel about the ones I’ve put in front of the living room window… could be blocking the view too much…
think these might be okay, although I may move the one in the dining room…
will see how it goes…
did have some fun with my lunch… read that today was guacamole day so decided to have it as part of my meal…
used roast beef slices as the bread and made a sandwich with guacamole, lettuce and tomatoes… tasty, lol…
even managed to fit in some chips…
rather fun…
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