Friends

I have been visiting this week with friends. Yesterday was with my good friend Carla and her four kids, they are homeschooled so they are home when I was there. We had a great time. We chatted about everything, politics, sports, religion, clothing.. you name it. While we talked we made a great big salad with the kids. I had brought the ingredients for a Pioneer Woman's favorite salad. This salad is HUGE, so I wanted to make it with them and eat it for lunch and then bring leftovers home for supper. Its only good for one day, its gets slimy after that. The kids did such a great job, and her youngest Steven decided to play a game with it, he was at cooking school with his teacher "Mrs. Ray" it was such a blast and made me miss my kids and the days when they were young and played games like that. They loved the salad, and they now have a new recipe to make! Today Pat came over and we had sausage sandwich, with roasted cauliflour and had a great time chatting about stuff also. We will see what the rest of the week will hold for visiting.

Steak with Onion Rings

Porter House and Ribeye Steak from Bissons with Homemade Buttermilk Onion Rings

BANANA CAKE

Banana Cake with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting with caramel drizzle

Hot Cross Buns

when i visited gram last week before easter she wanted some hot cross buns, we stopped at tony's donuts in portland to get them but :( they were sold out. i had been thinking of making them for gram ever since and found out tammy was going down to see her on friday so i made these up for her ( and for us) and sent them on their way. they were very good. i did not use the typical candied fruit, just regular natural dried fruit. healthy and delicious

Flour

Sugar

Buttermilk

Yeast

Salt

Dried Fruit

for observant people you may notice something different about me in this picture ;)

more from mr fixit

hot tub is still not repaired!

MR FIXIT

RECENTLY THE OUR DRYER DECIDED TO MAKE VERY VERY LOUD NOISES WHILE DRYING OUR MANY LOADS OF WASH. I FIGURED THIS WAS IT, I WAS GOING TO GET A MATCHING DRYER FOR MY MIELE WASHER ~ BUT BEFORE I ORDERED THE NEW DRYER I FIGURED I BETTER ASK MR FIXIT WHAT HE THOUGHT THE PROBLEM MIGHT BE, WELL HE TOOK A LOOK AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT BEARINGS, AND BELTS ECT.. SOUNDED BAD TO ME BUT HE SAID OH NO EASY FIX...... :( needless to say, old faithful is back in fine working order not making a wierd sound at all! THE SAME CAN NOT BE SAID FOR THE HOT TUB, HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON THAT THING ALL DAY AND IT IS NOT WORKING YET. IM SURE HE WONT GIVE UP THOUGH ~ HE CAN FIX ANYTHING.

SLOPPY JOES the good stuff

Turkey Sloppy Joes

ground turkey meat

red pepper (or any color)

red onion

tomatoe sauce

brown sugar

worcestershire sauce

montreal grill seasoning

cook on stove

(husband can do this)

Burger Buns

Flour

Egg

Sugar

Yeast

salt