wishing old man winter away!

Getting out on one of the few decent days we have had. it's been too cold for much fun!  

So what shall we do but bake!

Home made bacon mac and cheese!! YUM!!

We made this Layer Blueberry cake

YUM!

 Pasta rockets!!

Dumas walker

Our newest fetching Hope foster!

Dumas Walker

back in time

sweet treats down east

Autumn has arrived!

Making Apple cider!  

Pork Tender loin with apples

Canning tomatoes!  

Love this time of year1

Valentines!

The Family

I made my own meals this week no recipes.  First night was baked Zitti with four cheese sauce, mushrooms  garlic, fresh spinach and garlic and cheese sausage  .  Night two was Spaghetti with chicken, bacon and mushroom, tomato and parm cheese.  Then it was a lovely breakfast!  bacon eggs and English muffins.

I'm pondering making a cookbook gift with my recipes and photos.  who knows

Viola went home this week to become a service dog hopefully we will be able to follow her progress!

Valentines were made!

We made strawberry popcorn and it was delightful!

Peaches

So Yesterday we finaly made it to pick peaches we went to  Doles Orchard in Limerick.  Wegot up early, they only have morning hours and it's a bit of a trek and picked yellow and white peaches in the rain, hence no pictures from the orchard. 

We made peach pie and chopped peaches for jam yesterday.  So first i boiled them for 30 seconds approx. 

then they went in the ice bath and were peeled, most pretty easily, with the occasional stubborn one. 

They are so  pretty and yummy!!

Then we added sugar to make syrup for the pie filling, which I wont share the recipe because my pie was a flop, it tasted great but did not hold together at all!

All the while after a long weeks work tony was slaving away on our new coop for our meet chickens.  

 Winter came out with me to check on the chicks.  Fetching Hope

The rest of the flock