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grandsons…

27 Monday Mar 2023

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got to have my grandsons over for dinner…

haven’t seen them for ages, so it was a wonderful treat;-)…

we caught up and they shovelled part of the driveway for me…

the shovelling was a big job as the driveway hasn’t been cleared for months, but it was a beautiful day… and, in the process, the youngest lost his AirPods… in a white container;-(… we spent quite some time digging through all the snow they had moved but did not find them…

we had Chinese food for supper…I’ve been craving it for a while so that made it especially good…

after supper I dug out a set of earbuds from my collection of ones that don’t fit my ears and gave him those… everyone played on their phones for a while as we chatted before they headed home;-)…

they have become lovely young men, although they still bicker like brothers, lol…

simmered…

07 Tuesday Feb 2023

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spent a good portion of the day in the kitchen… it smelled lovely the whole time…

pork hocks and cabbage slowly simmered all day long…

then I made garlic mashed potatoes mid day so that they had time to cool before being reheated…

and then it was supper time;-)…

all that simmering worked as the meat was fork tender and delicious;-)…

texted…

21 Monday Nov 2022

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had a lovely day on Saturday…

started with six beautiful hibiscus flowers smiling at me;-)…

my grandson texted to say they were going to pick up some groceries and a parcel for me so we decided to have supper together…

I had a good time making stuffing and mashed potatoes, cooking mushrooms for gravy, and getting a chicken ready to roast…

in between those activities I watched speed skating and a Christmas movie, lol…

when the kids arrived we enjoyed a great visit and delicious meal… then he shovelled the driveway, decks and sidewalks… I truly am blessed…

it is always a treat to spend time with them;-)…

macaroni…

14 Monday Nov 2022

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I had a craving for macaroni and cheese… well I really wanted lobster mac and cheese, but didn’t have any lobster… I did have shrimp so decided on shrimp macaroni and cheese…

macaroni and cheese has been one of our family favourites… whenever I visit my daughter it is on the list of things that I must make, lol…

I was going to use oat milk instead of 2% regular milk which I didn’t have, but was told it wouldn’t turn out the way I am used to…

I cooked the macaroni and set it in the fridge to cool… then I contacted a friend and they brought me the milk as they were coming over anyway… yay…

once you’ve got a craving it is hard not to make what you want…

I made two pots… one with shrimp and bacon and one with only bacon…

I am going to package some up for the next few days and freeze some for down the road;-)…

it was absolutely delicious and I may have eaten two bowls;-)…

portion…

03 Thursday Nov 2022

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had a great day on Tuesday…

worked on homemade spaghetti sauce for a good portion of the day…

watched chickadees, nuthatches, and squirrels out the front window…

set the table for supper with the kids and tidied the house in preparation for the cleaners…

finished getting the rest of supper ready and had a great visit over the meal…

and they fixed the fire pit…

bounty…

17 Saturday Sep 2022

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had a delicious supper on Tuesday…

visited the Wolseley Farmers Market and got some lovely items…

flowers; a beautiful pork chop; green, yellow, and purple beans; garlic; small new potatoes; little eggplants; free range eggs; an acorn squash; and a cob of corn…

cooked up, cooled and reheated the potatoes… then warmed up some chicken wings from the night before and boiled some of the beans…

yum…

looking forward to more delicious meals from this bounty…

bacon…

05 Monday Sep 2022

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while he was here we worked at having all the foods my son-in-law has missed…

we’ve had burgers and bacon in many forms… we’ve been to a few favourite places…

we ordered samosas and butter chicken… and had Chinese food…

and then there was Tony Roma’s and Captain’s Table and Dairy Queen;-)…

and a few of my recipes were included, lol…

a delicious two weeks😁…

microwaved…

17 Sunday Apr 2022

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today is Easter, so I decided to make all my meals a treat;-)…

for breakfast I had two poached eggs with a potato patty…

there may have been a little chocolate eaten…

lunch was the last of my dimsum from Gimli Fish… the three packages are around $10 each and they provide three meals… it is a great option for me…

I did have a laugh when I microwaved the first batch… instead of using the timing for the microwave, I used the ones for steaming… it didn’t taste quite as good as usual that time, lol…

supper was a version of stuffed pork chops which I used to make for my beloved and I all the time… I used country style spareribs over my homemade stuffing…

came out beautifully and the bottom of the stuffing was deliciously crisp…

great food;-)…

flown…

12 Saturday Feb 2022

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I’ve always loved Valentine’s Day… from getting flowers from my beloved, to making heart shaped sugar cookies for the girls’ classrooms for years, to taking roses to my colleagues…

in later years, once the girls had flown the nest, we would have a special dinner… often steak and lobster…

this year I ordered a charcuterie board from Oak Hammock Marsh, one of our local not-for-profits, for my dinner tonight…

it was delivered to my door and looked festive…

there were cheeses, olives, crackers, cold cuts, fruit, nuts, herbs, even a bit of chocolate… and it came on a nice wooden board…

tonight I enjoyed half of it, and will finish it either tomorrow or Monday…

was thinking of my beloved as I enjoyed this treat…

old-fashioned…

02 Wednesday Feb 2022

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made chicken soup the other day… cold outside and huge snowflakes were falling… seemed like just the thing to do…

although I could use the Instant Pot, I do it the old-fashioned way… I enjoy the aroma as it simmers away on the stove…

I like the time it takes to cool the chicken down and then separate the meat from the bones, adding in the barley, potatoes and other veggies and putting it back on to simmer…

once it was finished I packaged it up and with the last bit in the pot added dumplings for my supper…

good use of the day and delicious…

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