Ham and cheese sandwiches

Timmy the Cat got to lick the turkey carcass clean. He thought he had died and gone to heaven.

Dinner at Grandma's

Marielle took these photos of dinner at Grandma B's. Marielle had the shrimp omelet and Mom and I had ham and beans with a shrimp salad on the side.

Turkey Soup

Roast Turkey

While our turkey was roasting in the oven a live turkey wandered through the yard eating bugs.
A little while later a doe showed up to take a nap in the shade of our tree. When I opened the window to take her picture she seemed to be saying- You woke me up!

munchies

I went grocery shopping and afterward we munched on fresh raspberries, lemon- ginger cookies, and bowls of Cheerios. Nobody was hungry for a real dinner.

Mexican salisbury steak?

Smokey Salmon Omelet

BBQ Salmon

I've barbecued salmon over real coals with tinfoil but never over propane gas with a BBQ grate or wok.  It was definitely tasty and EASY. I drizzled the salmon with a little butter and Sweet Mesquite and put it on the grill for about 15 minutes (without turning).  Delicious!

Shrimp Salad

Really strange... Gordon actually asked for it. He usually tries to avoid vegetables!

cereal

The kids are gone for a week, so I'm on vacation.

Salad

Eating by myself... so easy!

Figaro's Pizza

They had a really good coupon for a Papa's Special... too bad papa wasn't here. No big deal, we ate it anyway.

Creamy Garden, Garlic Chicken

I was inspired to make this dinner by Gordon's sister Julie. She was talking about Figaro's garlic chicken pizza. I didn't know how I was going to put it together but I had garlic and chicken.
We made up a name for our dinner while we were eating it. Charlie said garden, I said-- it has 3 cloves of garlic, Marielle said creamy and Gordon said chicken. 

Creamy Garden Garlic Chicken

2 large chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces

3 cloves of garlic

Oil

Poultry seasoning

salt

2 tablespoons of flour

1 cup milk

1 1/2 cups of frozen corn, carrots and peas

Saute crushed garlic in oil in a frying pan for 1 minute. Add chicken and cook until done (but not overly). Mix flour and milk and pour over the chicken. Cook until it thickens. Microwave veggies and stir in to the chicken. Add seasoning and simmer with a covered lid until your pasta is done. 

Leftovers

Roast Beef

and salad with feta and walnuts. Also we had red grapes and sliced avocados (sorry I forgot to take a photo).

Chicken Stir-fry

Made at lunch for my Mother in law. It's a long story but the short of it is-- I figured it was good food to serve her.

Granola

Gordon's away so we ate some homemade granola...something he would have complained about!

Sugarless Granola

Mix in bowl:

5 cups of oatmeal

2 cups of chopped almonds

1/4 cup sesame seeds

1/3 cups pumpkin seeds

1/2 raw wheat germ

2 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon salt

Add:

1/4 cup oil

1/4 cup honey

1/2 fruit juice

Cook at 300 for 45 minutes (stir occasionally). While that cooks microwave and soak 1/3 cup craisins in 1/2 cup fruit juice. Add craisins to oatmeal mixture and cook until it looks done--30 minutes more?

koi club potluck

Same people and I think the same food too!

Youth Group Graduation Party

There's 9 seniors graduating from our church's youth group. One of the parents hosted a party for everyone. I missed the photo shoot of all of the kids but got someone to take a photo of Mom, Lorene and I. I'll get photos from someone at church!

Del Rio buffet

I won tickets to a wine tasting event at Del Rio. They had a buffet that included some very good sushi. I love free food!

Left overs... I think?

Roast Chicken

Charlie was looking online for employment at pizza "parlors". Shortly before the chicken was done he said--I've got to have some pizza. So we had roast chicken, veggies and pizza.

Dinner at Mom's

I was in town for dinner so I ate at Mom's. She heated up something Lorene cooked and froze back in February. I'm not sure what it was but it tasted good.

Beef with sauce

It was kind of like beef stroganoff but I didn't add a lot of sour cream.

Left-overs!

Chicken Stir-fry

I made this the usual way. Cook the meat first, remove it and then cook the veggies, add the meat back with some sauce. It just didn't turn out like it should--it needed a kick. The garlic I used was tiny cloves and I think maybe they didn't have any flavor. It was fresh and healthy anyway and the pea-pods were ones that were volunteers (reseeded from last year).

No dinner tonight

Charlie made tortillas today and we filled up on that.

Potluck retirement party

This was fun. I co-hosted a retirement party for a well deserving teacher at Crater High (where I work).
Mr. Bud Le Fever was one of the teachers that went with Charlie to Washington DC/New York.
We had the party at Del Rio Vineyards that my friend Jolee owns. Jolee rescued some bottles of wine that would have been tossed because the they were at the end of the "line" and only 3/4 full. So we had free wine, finely "roasted" teacher and I think I got some brownie points from my boss.

Charlie and his teacher Mr. Le Fever

Hamburgers Again...

I'm trying to use up all the hamburgers we didn't have at the grad. party. This time I did not overcook them!

Graduation Dinner

Sorry... I've been busy. I need to ketchup-- oh I know that's bad!

We had a mexi bar night in honor of Charlie's graduation. Chicken tamales and taco salad for me.

Jonathan made a lively guacamole...

Jonathan's Famous Guacamole

2 avocados-finely chopped
Lime juice and pulp from 1 lime

1/4 cup of onions

3 Tablespoons of chopped cilantro
Dash of salt