A little of this and that...

The "Potted Salmon" recipe from the Crabtree & Evelyn cookbook was pretty good....we ate them on the Trader Joe's Pita Bite Crackers.
Have you ever made homemade bagels?  This is what they looked like before dipping them in boiling water and baking them:

Yesterday was Myrrhbearer Sunday.  It was my nameday and my sisters celebrate then, too...Martha, Mary & Susanna.  We had a new family come to our church, and the little girl, Salome, is just 6 years old.  She is here with her parents from Ukraine, for cancer treatment.  She has a rare form of cancer of the nerves and has been battling it for 2 years already.  May God help her!

After the previous post...we've been singing "Parsley, sage, rosemary and....mint."  We do not have any thyme growing in our yard.  I hope to have some dill soon.  We do have cilantro, too.  The chickens love to eat it.  ♥

Mint, rosemary and sage...

We plucked the leaves off some of our mint yesterday to make mint butter.  If you can read the recipe in lower left hand corner you can make your own.  It's in our freezer right now, wrapped up like a nice little log, ready for us to slice.  I'm thoroughly enjoying the Crabtree & Evelyn cookbook I borrowed from the library earlier this week...and I just rubbed their La Source hand therapy onto my hands, which were quite dry.

Our chickens are doing okay...Nutmeg faithfully lays a brown egg everyday, Clementine lays a greenish-blue one about once a week now.  She has had some illness on and off for a while, little bubbles form in her left eye and mat down the poufy feathers.  That's the problem with being beautiful.  She is more friendly, though and seems very happy!  

Can you see the purple flowers on our sage?  And below, you'll see my rosemary, which I brought inside for the winter....it looked like it wasn't going to make it, but there is new growth!!!

Oh, doesn't this menu look lovely?  And these vegan pizzas?  This weekend, I plan to make Potted Salmon (like a pate, to spread on bread) on page 149 from this cookbook.  ♥ I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Rhubarb season

 

 I have been working on this hat...a light summery hat with lots of holes.   I picked a bit of our purple flowering sage out of our backyard and sprigs of mint.

Yes, our rhubarb seems to be ready, I chopped it up and cooked it in a shallow pan with a little water and sugar.  I got this Crabtree & Evelyn cookbook from the library and am looking forward to making "Raspberry Zabaglione" and maybe making it into a Rhubarb Zabaglione, and trying other recipes...

To be perfectly honest, I was so excited when my husband got this book The Heirloom Life Gardener by Jere and Emilee Gettle as a birthday gift from his mom, but upon further examination I wish they'd omitted the politics.  In the tomato section they comment "Even Michelle Obama grows them."  And ridicule Ronald Reagan.  I do like the useful gardening information, as does my husband, but wish they'd just left that other stuff out....

P.S. We have lettuce coming up!  Our backyard looks like rows of dirt, but pretty soon I'm sure it will be all green!!!