Babs Just A Babblin' Blog

A bit of Gardening, baking, blogging, knitting, sewing, family, friends and discovering hidden treasures along the way.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Farm to Table..Sort Of

 

Oh yum. Left over corn on the cob cut off the cob and made into a pot of potato corn chowder.

So good. The fresh corn makes such a difference. All I did was de-cob about five ears of corn, boil a few small gold potatoes, saute a small onion, a clove of garlic, fried a few slices of bacon. Mixed corn, potatoes, onion, about 2 cups whole milk, some chicken broth and brought it to a boil and turned down to simmer. When I served it, I topped it with crumbled bacon.

Going to the marketThursday to get some corn and going to cook and de-cob and freeze!

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

Picture taken from my nephew's girlfriends FB. She and friends hiking in Oregon.

 

Monday, August 26, 2013

Anniversary Dinner

 

Red's on the River

 

View from our table

 

Outdoor seating

 

Effen Cucumber Martini

 

Honey Roasted Pear Salad

 

Salmon

 

Petit Filet

 

Dessert trio

 

French Pressed Coffee

Excellent!

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Party

Our friends had their "Wrapping Up Summer" party over the weekend. They have a beautiful home on Fremont Lake. The day was absolutely perfect.

We drank, played a few games of.Bocce ball, hit golf balls into the lake, paddle boating, and ate!

 

 

 

 

 

Good friends, good time! Really? Winding down for summer? How can that be?

 

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Thirty Three

Happy Anniversary to Us!

 

Thirty three years ago today we said "I do". Best thing we both ever did! Our hope is that we our blessed with many more!

 

Friday, August 23, 2013

Spontaneity

1. Coming from or acting on a sudden impulse.

That's what we did last night. I happened upon a business in Rockford...about 45 minutes away. Found it on the internet as they are a local coffee roaster.

 

While perusing their site, I found they offered outdoor cooking classes. Fast forward, Lynne and I enrolled in their BBQ rib class. They were strongly promoting cooking on the Big Green Egg. Have you ever heard of it?

Very interesting grill. Fabulous actually. Temperature is well regulated. You can cook at 200 degrees to 700 degrees. It keeps going for 12 hours with little addition of hardwood. Anyway, after the class we ate! Oh my, the best ribs, beans, coleslaw, and garlic bread. We must have been hungry as I forgot to take a picture.

interesting little place. They sell deli items, have a bakery, sell kitchen and outdoor grilling necessities, roast coffee, sell candies and they make jerkies.

I came home with two different coffee beans, Columbian Supremo and Red's Special Blend. (red's is a fine dining establishment on the river in town). Also I bought a bottle of the fabulous BBQ sauce they served, The Slab, and a bottle of rub. They bottle their own and they use ground coffee in the base! Amazing.

The proprietor said if you have old spices that are losing their flavor, add a touch of ground coffee to a mixture and you get an amazing flavor.

Fun evening, nice sitting out doors and as always, so fun being with Lynne.

Do you ever have spontaneity in your life?

 

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Blueberries

We went picking today! Little over six pounds of berries.

First up was blueberry buckle.

Will use some in a salad this weekend. Eat a few handfuls and the rest go into the freezer.