Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Food: A Find; Some Fun

I love to cook for my family, but in the summer it gets to be a bit of drag.  I want to enjoy life outside, not menu plan.  The rotation of hot dogs/hamburgers/pizza/salad gets a bit monotonous.  So, I devised a plan.  Starting last week, I have implemented French Suppers.  Every day for supper we eat salad, grilled something (veggies, meat, fish) and a demi baguette.  You probably think that sounds monotonous!  However, salad is never the same.  I have been putting everything on our salad, including left-over wild rice and cold roasted chicken.  Mr. Crafty World comes home, puts something on the grill; I put the baguette in the oven and chop the lettuce.  The kids eat the lettuce  (minus the dressing), eat  the meat/ veggies/ fish, and the bread.  Everybody's happy.  I had to take a picture of last night's salad because it looked (and tasted) sooo good:
Grilled veggies, Israeli couscous, goat cheese and fiddlehead ferns.  I shamefully told the kids the fiddleheads were forest worms just to gross them out so I wouldn't have to share :o
A big bonus to eating salad is that you can't just scarf it down.  You have to eat it slowly, thereby enjoying it and giving your body a chance to realize it's full before it's over full.
Now to totally negate any benefits of salad, I have been baking.  Actually it's for the school bake sale, so we're OK!  I made vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting and lemon bars. 



I have been thrifting a little lately, and found a small bag of silk thread on wooden spools.

The colors are very pretty, and combined with a few other wooden spools I have make a neat decoration displayed in one of my vintage canning jars:


And lastly I did a bit of card making last night.  I love how this one turned out:


It's actually more green than the grey that you see here.  Although, grey would have been nice....
I love making cards but it usually takes an hour per card, just because I have to go through every possible combination of paper/stickers/embellishments.  By the end of it I'm out of creative ideas for the verse, so it's usually just "To... From Me"  Hardly inspired!  So if you get a card from me, just know all the love is in the outside!

4 comments:

Solstitches said...

Well, this post made me very hungry!
Those cupcakes look so good as do the lemon bars.
The spools you found in the thrift shop look so pretty the way you have them displayed.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog and for your nice comment :)
Margaret
Great blog header by the way!

A Spoonful Of Sugar said...

Your silk threads were a terrific find! Your cupcakes and lemon slice look delicious.

Pumpkin said...

I love salads in the summer :o) I have to say though, those cupcakes and squares look so delicious I'm drooling all over my keyboard. LOL!

Lovely card.

Julie said...

Love your blog!

Interestingly I just heard recently that those old canning jars (we have some somewhere since my childhood) are worth a lot of money! So don't throw yours out!!

cheers
Julie in Australia

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