Shelby

My mom came for a couple of days. We had a blast. I forgot to take pics of some of the food but here's a bit. My wonderful cleaning angel brought me strawberries from her patch. SO good. They actually TASTE like strawberries. Snacks for when mom got here after an 11 hour drive Ramen noodle chicken salad--we love this stuff Pizza night Fried chicken wings and gizzards last night

Ready for my boring yearly garden pictures? I just like to keep a little record here of what I've planted. I hope this years gardenage is waaaaaay better than last year. Radishes are plentiful Green beans doing well so far--well the ones that Chum isn't sitting on are anyway..... Red, white and yellow onions Collard greens 6 cucumbers Lots of yellow squash and zucchini (gotta guard that from @HungryChris Lettuce tons of beets 12 or so okra plants a few bell and jalapeño peppers and a couple eggplant 40 some tomatoes 4 artichokes (never planted these before) Not pictured--the Silver Queen is just barely peeking through and so is one spaghetti squash. I've planted delicata squash twice now and it won't germinate...bad seeds?

I LOVE that star shaped bowl. Love love love.

I am going to be kicked off of EG for this: I had to google to find out what a cartouche even was. And then I found out it had something to do with Egyptian hieroglyphics and had to continue googling.

Like Anna, I needed a toastie last night. So I had one with green beans and roasted chicken.

I have some blood sausage buried in my freezer somewhere. I need to find it. Looks good!

Thanks you two! I just could not make the dough smooth after shaping them...any "wrinkles" did not leave...they just stayed no matter how much I tried to "smooth" them out. Maybe I should have kneaded it longer or a tad less flour. A bagel expert, I am not lol. edited to add--I've only seen bagels that you can buy at a generic grocery store and they always have perfectly smooth tops. Maybe real NYC bagels are more wrinkly?

Made bread and some water bagels in the CSO yesterday. Yes, my bagels do not look perfect lol but they are really good! Using the bread setting and reducing the bake time by 5 mins was perfect.

I always LOVE looking at your desserts...and your food...and your daughter's gooey bars...YUM. I've long wanted to try the sugar babies in cookies--ever since I saw yours a long time ago..I just always forget to look for any when I'm at the store.

I want that @HungryChris right now for breakfast. Oysters, shrimp and gorgonzola stuffed ravioli with shrimp and asparagus.

Ronnie had a dinner meeting...he texted me a picture of the best looking rare tuna over some sort of rice. I had a few bites of fat free cottage cheese out of the container. And wine.

Good thing you didn't have to share with me....I'd have hoarded all of the roasted soy beans.

OH MY GOSH look at that chandelier. I could stare at that for hours. I can't remember...is alcohol forbidden in all places or do some hotels serve it?

Ronnie went fishing at the lake yesterday and brought home some nice white bass

Oh wow. I've always wanted to visit the UAE. I will never get to, so this is awesome. Look at that water and that view! Amazing. Are those pine nuts on a salad above the sadly overcooked beef? And yeah, the rest of the airplane meals look really good.

Derby day dinner

Keeping in the theme, I made a little venison taco pizza--I don't think I've ever had that and I liked it a lot. Then we had venison tacos with all the trimmings

Yikes! No wonder it's on sale. Maybe I'll just look at the pictures.

I don't know what came over me, I don't even like cookbooks on Kindle lol. The picture on the front cover looked so dang good that I just pushed the buy button.

Huckleberry:Stories, Secrets and Recipes from our Kitchen by Zoe Nathan--2.99 on Kindle The Fermented Man  by Derek Dillinger--1.99 on Kindle I bought 'em both.

CSO chicken

I concur. We brine most all of our chicken. But ours is probably a lot saltier...we like a lot of salt ( I know, I know ).

Ditto. I re-use lids if they have NOT been used for canning. Canning lids (not the rings) can only be used once.

Oysters, lobster ravioli, scallops and roasted broccoli

Yes, your version is MUCH better. Perhaps you should be the head chef at that restaurant.