Date day.
One day it was like 72 degrees outside and I made soup with the leftover pot roast meat from last week. It was lovely and all I could think about was all the hot soups that will be cooked on the wood stove this winter. We won’t be having soup today though…. We’ll probably have dinner at the ice cream stand {with about a million other people} because it’s supposed to be a high of 95 today! Yikes!
The HH made quesadillas for dinner one night. This time around he added chopped jalapeno peppers from our garden and now that’s the only way I want to eat quesadillas from now on. 🙂
Sooo many tomatoes! This week we were practically swimming in them. I made tomato sauce and popped it in the freezer to use later this year.
Dehydrated tomatoes. {I like to add them in biscuits, scones and biscotti during the winter months}.
Tomato salads every.single.day.
Cream of Wheat with fresh fruit.
Local Apple Orchard $7.00
Zestar apples. Have you ever tried them? Tart for the first few bites and then super sweet. I like them! I think I might go back for more.
Pickety bits for Mrs. HB.
She brought me chocolate! 🙂 And a cigar for the HH.
Bricco Salumeria & Pasta Shop $30
With a grandmother who was a full blooded Italian, I pretty much grew up eating salami and let me tell you Bob, the salami from Bricco Salumeria is the best stuff on earth!
The best meal of the week though was with our neighbors at the neighborhood progressive potluck dinner. The entire street was invited and there was a nice mix of age groups. Some people have lived on our street for over 30 years, and a few have trickled in over the past two years {us included!} and it was a wonderful way to meet the people on our street.
We had appetizers at one house, main course at the next and finally dessert on someone’s screened in back porch. The HH made a double batch of his Broccoli Cashew Salad and the salad received lot’s of compliments. The HH and I had a really good time and we were so glad we went. I told him we should host some sort of winter party {maybe a soup and bread get together?} at the end of January or February to break up the monotony of winter. We’ll see.
It was a good week, with lot’s of variety!
~Mavis
Total Spent in August $259.90 <– $30 on salami splurge
Total Spent in July $276.56 < – $38 Spent on Amish meat and cheese
Total Spent in June $206.47 <- Attempting once a month grocery shopping
Total Spent in May on Groceries $216.50 <- Included a stock up trip to King Arthur Flour
Total Spent in April on Groceries $169.98
Total Spent in March on Groceries $306.75 <– Apartment life, moving across the country and settling into a new house
Total Spent in February on Groceries $259.81 <- Living in an apartment and buying a lot of ready-made meals
Total Spent in January on Groceries $240.15 <– Packing mode and not cooking from scratch as much
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Elise in says
Our “neighborhood” (really about a mile radius, generally the school’s catchment area) does a potluck in the park near the school every Thursday evening of Daylight Savings Time. I LOVE it. In it’s heyday, there would be 50 people! It’s dwindled down to about 3-4 families on a not-every-week basis, but new folks are coming, so maybe it will pick up steam again. It started 8 years ago (!) and it’s such a great way to see people that don’t actually live on our street, but that our kids go to school together. The only rule (especially for newbies) is to just COME. Don’t worry about making anything special. Even if people “make it to the store” for prepared food (or chips and dip, or wine) or “make a call” for pizza delivery, just “Make it to the pot-luck”!!
Rebecca in MD says
We love fresh jalapenos in our quesadillas also. We grow so many that I pickle and can them so we can enjoy throughout the winter in recipes like homemade chilli and I love them in my garden salads also. Just yesterday my husband asked me to make some homemade jalapeno poppers.
The bread and soup potluck is an amazing idea. I would love something like that. In the fall and winter I make homemade soup at least once a week. I just love the smell of a pot of soup bubbling away on the stove……..
Donna says
We have soup suppers with my husband’s sisters. Two make soup, one makes cornbread, and one makes dessert. Who ever is hosting makes tea. We love our soup suppers!
Nancy D says
At the neighborhood potluck, did anybody mention your fruit stand? Did you get to put faces on your “customers” and find out who bought what? Find new homes for the plants you don’t want?
Mavis Butterfield says
Yes, peeps really liked the fruit stand, but I forgot to ask people about the plants. Gaaa!
Cindy says
Maybe post a note in the stand about it? Just a thought.
Sarah B says
My other half and I loovveee the salami from Bricco. We grab some every time we head into Boston. It doesn’t last as long as it should in our house. We also grab fresh bread from the bakery downstairs.
LaToya says
I add chocolate chips to my Cream of Wheat … soooo good.
(Bunches if you want it sickening sweet like my teen boy does, or less for if you just want some extra sweet and chocolate taste).
SweetSue says
Did I see a box of See’s chocolates? As a native west coaster, those are our favorite. Had to make sure but when I saw that milk chocolate Bordeaux I knew it was the real deal(although the white box helped). I’m salivating already! Eat them slow and savor every last bite.
Leanna says
See’s! Mmmm
Pat says
I have a bushel of Zestar apples waiting to be turned into sauce and canned. Yum!