This is The Fisherman’s favorite hang out place located in the basement of our house. I wish I had remembered to take some “before” pictures – but all you have to visualize is no pictures on the wall over the couch and aquarium… OK – got that in your mind? Blank walls and blank they…
Family
Happy Birthday to Us!
Another year, another couple of birthdays! The Fisherman and I have ours 2 days apart… his is before mine but I’m older so I figure it all washes out in the end! We were fortunate that both our girls and their fellows were able to join us. We had a great time and dinner outside…
Eggplant Parmesan
Happy Birthday to The Fisherman! I wanted to make him one of his favorite meals but never even touched an eggplant before! I’m also Italian but we did not make this dish in our family or if we did when I was a kid, I’m sure I stuck my nose up and refused to eat…
Vacation Time
Back from vacation – sniff. We were in Cross Lake, MN and as I’m writing this, I still feel like I’m rocking on a boat! We (as in The Fisherman, his brother Mike and “sister” Kris) spent a lot of time fishing this past week. Though my idea of vacation is sleeping in and boating…
Odds & Ends
Happy July!! I had the weekend off from the kitchen as our friends invited us to rest and relax at their cabin on Big Sauk Lake in Sauk Centre, MN. And relax I did! This was my view while I was reading -notice my toes 🙂 And speaking of reading, as you know I am…
Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to The Fisherman! I knew our girls would not be coming down for a visit so I suggested that we go to the mighty Mississippi for a little fishing. Of course he is always game for that so the kitchen was closed today for some R&R and hopefully some fish! We were…
Burrito Bowl
Well, tonight’s dinner was super easy… I let Chipotle do the cooking and we did the eating. I worked til 6:30 and called Mr. John on the way home…. we agreed to meet somewhere and this place sounded good to both of us. I love their bowls… much easier to eat than the rolled burrito…
Hola Amigos!
¿Cómo estás? ¿Qué pasa? We are back from our 7 day sun and fun filled vacation! It was muy bien… every day was sunny and 80! I took lots of pictures (about 400!) and here are a few of what we ate and sampled… First stop for tasty beverages – cerveza and salsa Chicken Enchiladas…
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is one of my favorite times of the year. I love creating the table scape and using my dishes, crystal and other cool things! The first thing I did was set the table with a green cloth, add red felt snowflake chargers (from Pier 1) and then place the dishes. This year I…
Christmas Raviolis
In my mom’s handwriting Whew… the last few days have been a whirlwind… Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! We ended our festivities and eating yesterday by having homemade raviolis. These were a tradition I grew up with and my mom wrote the recipe for me on one of her visits here. You can…