So...whats for dinner?
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That coffee on the terrace makes me want to spirit myself to Barcelona!
Dinner last night was pizza from Tommy's Pizza, located in Hammond. It was a casual affair at my mother's house with two sisters present and one SIL and one BIL and, of course, my mother. I enjoyed the company but my pizza is SO much more to my taste. I didn't voice that thought, of course. Tommy's is a big favorite with some of those present. It would have been better hot. The red sauce tasted sweet to me. A lot of Italians in this region are from Sicily and they put sugar in their red sauce.
I guess one problem with being a cook is learning to prefer your own cooking!
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Baked potatoes with sautéed mushrooms, tomatoes, onions and broccoli. To moisten, a little cheese sauce made with garbanzo bean flour, organic fat free milk and low fat cheese.
If nothing else, it should be interesting.
I lived in Andalucia for three years and always had lovely coffee. Cried when I left there
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Here's a shot of the nest. It was foggy this morning, this is about as clear as I could get. DH saw the female coming out of it this a.m.
Here are a couple of hummers playing nicely for a change.
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So, as I mentioned above, here in Barcelona the world looks bright and cheerful once again. Our apartment is perfect! Oh there is the missing spatula, and other oddities, but we have two terraces that get lovely breezes under the sun-blocking awning. The kitchen is spacious and the stove is gas. There are markets and bakeries just everywhere. And the people! The people are so kind and generous with their smiles. There is a bathtub with enough water pressure and a comfortable bed. The terraces have comfortable furniture.
We woke this morning to head to our local covered market, the Mercat Abaceria. Like practiced animals, we scoped the market aisle by aisle and then went in for the kill. A bit of veal here, two chicken carcasses there [for 30 CENTS, for both], dried beans, oranges, green beans, lettuces, potatoes, a perfect tomato, avocado, spring onions, and some organic carrots. And then, pork. Two ribs of pork, cut into pieces and some sausage. Around the outside of the market are more stores and we picked up a flexible spatula.
I have made some chicken stock. The beans are soaking. Tomorrow night we will have a rustic pork stew and the next night a scallopine with some lemon and capers with potatoes and green beans.
The washing machine has been humming all day and the clothes are hanging from the lines. We did not tourist today. We did not venture out into the busy world. We just had one my daughter calls a "living" day. And it was perfect. After lunch [avocado, tomato, lettuce and cheese sandwich] I remembered that I didn't remember when our reservations for Tickets was. Turns out tonight! So, that scallopine becomes Monday's dinner. Here is the website to the not-quite-a-restaurant: http://es.bcn50.org
So no pictures. We haven't done anything! And it was the most perfect day.
*susan*
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Roast lamb here tonight.
With roasted pumpkin and sweet potato, mashed potatoes, cauliflower cheese, "marble", minted peas, gravy.
So yummy.
Who knows what "marble" is?
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Susan - What fun to see the restaurant's web site. We'll be waiting for a review. Your market experience and new 'digs' sound sublime. Oh - one prefect tomato. Thanks for the pictures. I love your daughter's "living day" idea. Appreciated your wry comment about the polyps.
Nance - great bird pictures. Ah spring. I have a dove determined to next in my best hanging basket. So far I've tried plastic forks stuck upright & pine cones but neither have deterred her. You can actually see her laughing & waiting up on the phone wires for me to go back into the house.
Carole - I too had pizza last night from one of my favorite places - Fuzzy's. #1 is two huge slices w/two toppings and a large salad. I'm usually full after the salad & bring 1-1/2 slices home for midnight snacks. But I know what you mean about the sauce. I'm super picky about my red sauce.
Happy Mother's Day everyone - whether celebrating your own Mother or being a mother.
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Sounds like heaven to me Susan. Except maybe for the laundry. Nah, even with that. It's always nice to find a way to get clean clothes on a trip.
Chicken cacciatore tonight.
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Happy Mom's day to everyone, even if you are like me "the caat's mum"....
I purchased 2 "madeleine" cake pans today at a Church rummage. I think they are little cake like cookies that kind look like a seashell? Anyhow, I now have 3 pans, so if I find a recipe fo them, I won't be washing and cooling one pan over and over to use up all the batter! For someone with a galley kitchen, I sure acquire a lot of gourmet gadgets.... Thank goodness I put a big cupboard downstairs to hold my collection of Nordic ware.....HAHA>
Rained like crazy yesterday and supposed to do it all day thur Monday, but today was beautiful a.m. (Methodist prayed away the rain for their rummage).. Now it is very cloudy and I have to go be a Master Gardener at the Kiwanis's mother's day plant sale. Thankfully it is under a tent.
Dinner will be a fast food item, I am sure.
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Oh-I got the book "eat this not that" for 50cents---and it says Marie Calender's Parmesean Chicken Pot Pie is the WORST FOOD in Grocery store. The book is in the car, but I forget how many bags of chips the sodium alone equals........0 -
Minus, I usually get house finches in my baskets, although one year we had a robin. One year we had three house finch nests going at the same time! Made going out into the porch a major ruckus each time. This year we only have a pair of wren in a wren house on the porch.
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Since we have lived in Tampa we have had mourning doves build a nest in a small palm by the front door twice (one of those was during a tropical storm) but they are pretty terrible nest builders and I was so worried about the babies! Then we had a very tiny bird - not sure what kind, never got a really good look- build a nest in my door decoration! It is an oval pail type thing with silk flowers and Spanish moss. We couldn't use the front door until the babies could fly!
I am at DD's place packing so we are having some interesting meal trying to eat stuff up before the move.
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LuvMyGoats - Just reading about the tornadoes west of Ft. Worth and I know you're out that way. Thinking of you. Hope you are OK. Check in when you can.
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Hubby is talking about breaking out the grill today. Thinking country style pork ribs, a salad and corn on the cob roasted on the grill!
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Sk, you are so right about doves being terrible nest builders. We had a pair in the tree outside our breakfast room. Every time the wind blew pieces of the nest fell off until finally a baby bird did too. This was not a fledgling, they barely had any feathers at all. I ended up collecting pieces of the nest and placing then in an empty hanging flower basket that I hung under the nest to catch the rest. (I've done the same thing to a robin's nest that fell apart during a storm.) Now I always make sure to keep at least one empty flower basket at the end of the season for bird emergencies!
Speaking of storms, Luv I hope you and the goaties are safe and sound. We are expecting severe weather today too.
Happy mother's day to you moms of all things human, fur or other! I don't know what's for dinner I only know dh is fixing me French toast for breakfast. A good start!
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Nance, what an interesting bird nest! Thanks for posting pic.
Susan, I'm so looking forward to a "living" day tomorrow. I hope to get my house cleaned before the surgery. Also want to get out crochet supplies. I bought a pattern book with some cute hats and scarves and thought I would occupy (frustrate?) myself attempting some projects during my week of non-weight bearing on the carved foot. If they turn out cute, I can give them to nieces who live in cold climates.
I might turn into a placemat making machine! I have two more patterns I like. Look out, relatives! Next year might be a placemat Christmas! Meanwhile the house is filling up with wooden bowls dh is turning in his woodworking shop.
Ah, bird nests. We have nests on our porch on top of the metal boxes that house the hurricane shutters. DH gets house wrens in his workshop. We have doves but have not seen their nests. DH has bluebird boxes here and there.
Gorgeous lamb roast. I need suggestions for cooking a boneless shoulder lamb roast that is in the freezer.
Time to go make potato salad and unmold the shrimp mold. No afternoon holiday meal for this family. My mother gets twitchy by noon. It's pushing things to eat at 1 pm.
Happy Mother's Day to you mothers and to us non-mothers, too.
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Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's on here.
I didn't have time to get gifts for Sharon and my mom, so I'm doing stuff for them instead of getting things....
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Mommy of two your dinner sounds good to me....especially corn on the cob. The first of the year...yummo.
Just discovered some type of caterpillar (sawfly or skipper) devouring my columbines. They were volunteers that popped up and I just decided to pull them up. Insecticidal soap would work on the sawfly, but I decided to go big and get rid of them.
It was dark and rainy here and I didn't wake up till 9:45......not like me at all. Must have needed the sleep.
Dinner will be a big salad and some leftover Mexican omelet.
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Great Northern beans with low salt soy sauce mixed with Sriracha sauce. My new "put on everything" sauce.
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Hi all! Supper tonight will be Chinese. I'm taking myself out for Mother's Day. I heard from 3 of the kids who live out of town, but the one who lives in my city has some 'splainin to do for i just got a text from him. LOL
Happy Mothers Day to all, whether kids or furbaby or other types of family! Or just a Mother Archetype in your neighborhood. We all need people who care about little ones!
Carole good luck on your surgery. Crochet is fun.
Susan I'm glad your trip is going well.
I'm behind as usual. But I hope all is well with everyone.
Much love
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Moon - so glad to hear from you. Hope you're doing OK. I miss your posts. I bought a rotisserie chicken from Costco for my mother's day mid-day dinner - all by myself. Maybe I should have done Chinese but this way I could stay in my jammies and read & do nothing else all day. A nice treat since son is off elsewhere working and my mother passed on in 2004.
Bedo - my favorite is navy beans & I usually add green chile instead of Siracha.
In fact my SIL just told me her "go to" dip is 24 oz sour cream, 5 small cans chopped hatch green chili, garlic salt, pepper & lemon juice. Maybe it's because we both lived in New Mexico at one time.
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Monica, nice to hear from you!
Minus, I like the hatch green chili salsa a lot. I think I tried it based on your recommendation. In fact, I'll be having some on steak fajitas for dinner. Sides are Spanish rice and a guacamole salad.
Carole, I bet the placemats wwould hbe a hit.
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I echo moon's post about everyone having a nice Mother's Day - whether they have human or animal children, maternal feelings, or are fortunate to still have mom. My mom has been gone for 10 years - the first two weeks of May she is on my mind a lot - her birthday is Cinco de Mayo, she passed on that day also, then shortly after is Mother's Day. DD and I spent the afternoon together - after she got off work. We suspended packing and did some antique browsing and had dunch/linner. We had fun! Driving back tomorrow morning at 5am to make my pt appt. both cars are loaded up
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Moon, it was good to see a post from you. Hope you enjoyed the Chinese food, a difficult concept for me! LOL.
I pigged out on sweets yesterday. Lots of "mindless" eating. My cousin who lives next door to my mother brought home-made cheesecake squares and home-made fudge. My brother and SIL brought home-made box brownies. That was their "assignment." There was also a big plate of home-made pralines and an assortment of Italian cookies that another guest brought. These were leftovers from a wedding reception. My sister who was hostess had made a big bowl of banana pudding because she didn't know about all the unexpected treats. I didn't eat the banana pudding but I enjoyed the other dessert selections to excess.
My SIL who made the brownies declared that it was the last time they made anything home-made! It was a great trial for her. LOL. She had dishes to wash afterwards and a mess to clean up.
No idea yet what's for dinner.
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My dinner turned into a SURPISE---my best friend from Jr. High on lives in Ohio. My cell rang at 4:30 and she was in champaign with her daughter who graduated fromKentState Sat. (for an interview) and she drove over and we went for Pizza and Salads --hit the cemeteries about dark and then we visited my Dad for a couple of hours. He thinks of her as another daughter.
Her mom passed on Mother's day the day after we both graduated from college and my mom passed the day after Mother's day 2 years ago, so we share a poignant bond of sorts.
There is just nothing that compares to an old friend.....NOTHING.
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A little worried about luvmygoats. Terrible storms in her area. Hope she can check in soon.
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Nance - I did send Luv a PM and they are OK. They weren't in the tornado's paths. I'm sure she'll check in soon.
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Thanks Minus, that's good news. We are on our way to DBIL and DDIL's house for a few days. No meal decisions for me, yay! She's a great cook so even better.
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Goats hope you are OK. What is that website??? I once saw about 20 eagles dining on salmon on a river in AK
Auntie I loved your pictures!! There is a bike path near here and I saw about 50 red winged black birds in the bird sanctuary off on a walking path a few years ago.
Your pictures are all so beautiful
I'm hoping to "retire" in 8 months. It is not a "normal" retirement, as most would not be able to live on what I live on, but I feel that I have so much left to see, and want to see it.
DD agrees with me. Her wedding is this Saturday. I am so happy for her!!!
I miss my Mom. She passed away when I was 25 and was one of the true loves of my life.
Happy belated Mothers Day to all who love and care for any being
Hi Rhonda! So happy so see your post and a new member
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Rotisserie chicken for dinner with pineapple and cabbage slaw and steamed yellow squash.
Nance, enjoy your visit and respite from planning meals.
Bedo, yay for retirement!
Glad that Luv wasn't hit with bad weather. We had a thunderstorm system move through but got mostly rain. There may be more to come tonight.
Waiting for a report from Lacey on the Mother's Day visit.
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Bedo - hard to believe the wedding is here. I hope you'll have a great time. And yes, it's interesting what we can live on when there is no spouse and the children are grown.
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