Fresh Eggs

How many of us enjoy fresh eggs?  Me, Me, Me!  I am in love with the idea of running out to your chicken coop and grabbing a warm egg to run back in your kitchen, cook it and eat it.  All less than 30 minutes.  Literally, the chicken just laid it and you consume it shortly thereafter.

I have a bias.  My favorite eggs are a light green color.  My good friends who own a farm tell me the chickens who lay light green eggs are called "Americanas."  No, they do not taste different.  My eyes simply have a bias to pretty colors.  'Tis all.

I snapped this picture while I was hanging out at my good friends farm.  I snap, snap so many pictures of my every day life.  You know, pictures tell a story.  As you can see from my posts, my pictures tell my life story or shine light on things I enjoy.

Happy Egg'n.

Call me silly, but I love to cook for my family.

Last night I just went a little crazy and spoiled my family with dinner.  The salad is compliments of my 19 year old daughter.  She sure knows how to put it together.  Julia Child's Clafoutis was magnificent.  I had some old cherries sitting in my refrigerator so I baked them with this delightful recipe.  It was a complete hit.  The soup is my version of Martha Stewart's Seafood Stew.  I omitted the shrimp and scallops.  I also used Salmon, Bass and another fish (oops forgot to get the name).  I followed the instructions otherwise to the letter.  I toasted some Sourdough bread and lathered it with butter with garlic.  I complimented that with some Merot.  Yes, I am in the know about white wine with sea food.  I was lacking some so Merlot won.  Dinner was ready in 30 minutes.  Yep!  You know this was delicious.  Yum, Yum

These are Gourds.  I am little sad because I really don't know what I am looking for other than a beautiful bean like ornament.  So far the waiting is treacherous.

I have several tomato plants.  You see the different color trellis'.  I wanted to show you guys that weird one with a nose like thing growing on it.  Trust me, I am just waiting for it to be ripe enough for us to eat.

This morning I watched this beetle take off from this spot.  First it crawled to the highest branch and off it went.  I hope he isn't eating my garden. And, there is that weird tomato again.  It sure has my attention. 

Sweet Muscat and some harvest

I picked some green beans yesterday along with a chile red plus some tomatoes.  Oh, and lets not forget to include the heirlooms (orange).  I think I have enough to feed my family tonight.

The Muscat is a very special sweet wine.  I have owned it for over 2 years and it has been in my family for over 6 years.  It came from France.  I brought it with me as a carry on two years ago.  The hubs and I finished it two nights ago so I was sure to take a picture of it.

Happy Tuesday.

Bread, tomatoes and Bulgaros

My tomatoes are looking so good right now.  I am eating them and cooking with them for almost every meal.  We are not close to canning yet since we can keep up with the tomatoes.  Soon, very soon that will change.
I have a purple bean growing too and so far I have only had one.  They are purple when you pick them but when you cook them, you can't tell it was purple to begin with.  It blends in with the green beans.

I made some Cinnamon/ Raison rolls too.  Talk about Yum, Yum.  The bread?  I made that too.  I spent a good day in the kitchen just whipping stuff up. 

I don't know if you know what these guys are.  They are Bulgaros and as of 7/19/2013 I have been consuming the liquid everyday.  Basically, a friend gave me the little balls which are a sort of a yogurt. Bulgaro information from LiveStrong  I am on day number four.  So far so good.  I am making smoothies with it.  I am adding nuts, granola, fresh fruit and my own jams.  It tastes just like a yogurt.

 

Not too sure, numb toe & numbing while I sleep

This is totally random.

I apologize in advance.

My hands go numb at night and my right foot has a numb toe.

What is going on???

The fruit of all my hard work

I have been encouraged to tend a garden for some time now and it has never really been something that draws my attention.  Until now!  I have been religiously tending my garden for months now and I am eating my homegrown tomatoes almost every day.  Can you see the yellow and orange ones?  Well, let me tell you, they are Heirlooms.  Yeah!  It is awesome.  I don't know how to explain what I feel knowing I did all the work.  Well, lets be honest.  My DH planted these tomato plants.  Then he got busy and I took over.  Hmm, something tells me it was all part of his plan.  I am enjoying it out there.  Just plain o' Lovin it.

I see some serious tomato canning in my near future.  Ohh, I can't wait.

I've been cooking and canning and baking and...

 

I spent most of my day babysitting the stove while I followed a very nice recipe for "Apricot Nectar."Apricot Nectar Recipe

 

 

I made some Apricot cream pie with all the pulp left over from the apricots.  I'm only sad that I could not press the seeds.  Apparently, the oil from the seeds is super fabulous!

 

We had so many little critters in our pond and they have this strong desire to swim in our pool.  We keep rescuing them and putting them back in the pond.  My Lil Man is loving the pool these days. He is my little fish, and loving those little critters.  All is well with the water and his ears lately.  KNOCK ON WOOD!

 

Oh, and lest I forget, the pumpkins are growing like mad men!  I have one that measures 17.5 inches in diameter and it is only July.  Wow.  This is going to be so much fun.  I have been told to carve something on the pumpkin before it finishes growing.  I might test it once the pumpkin is big enough.