(having to go back and add photos back in. Deleting them from my phone apparently took them out of here as well despite the files being on my computer.)
Apple french toast cobbler for breakfast.
One thing that I love is the pace and food with my friend. We are very simple in our tastes in meals, she makes it easy to eat more than we can. This is a good thing! There was enough left over of this dish I had it every morning reheated. I need to remember to do this at home because it loses nothing in microwaving it as leftovers. Torn up bread, apples, cinnamon, a little sugar, I think pecans or walnuts, soaked overnight in the fridge then baked and drizzled with maple syrup.
YUMM!
Easy morning, but routine for the farm. Take kitchen scraps to the chickens, let them out, check for eggs, feed the sheepies and llamas, then the bunnies.
Miki and I stayed home while Devon went out on an excursion later in the day. Surprisingly farm life doesn't start that early on the weekends so we had a nice relaxing morning and afternoon.
Here we are holding baby bunnies. Devon's is a bit younger than the one I have, since we just got new bunnies at the nursery I was a little experienced holding one. Still so cute and fluffy!
Devon took off before lunch to see a game shop he had visited last time so that left Miki and I to just relax. It was cloudy and chilly of course, but that is to be expected and we just rolled with it because later on it cleared.
Lunchtime rolled around and Miki had some leftover soup that she added some turkey meatballs to. I'm not usually a fan of tomato based soups, other than actual tomato soup, but this was fantastic!
Must be just having country food in good company but I had two bowls!
In wandering around in the yard, I was helping to clean up the fire circle and discovered this little fella.
It is a red snail. Yeah... from soup to snails, haha! I'm used to the regular brown garden snails, this was remarkable in the banding on the shell and definite red coloring. It's a native 'Pacific Sideband Snail' which I hadn't seen before obviously. Not into mollusks but this one caught my attention.
The slugs are massive things that I originally thought were dog poop until it moved!
I told Miki that Sunday was Devon's birthday and she said she'd bring back cake fixings from the store. When Devon got back, we asked what he wanted for his birthday dinner and he said 'steak'. Well she just so happened to have some steak in the freezer so we pulled it out and thawed it. She fired up the wood stove since it wasn't quite bbq weather outside. (The clouds had moved back in and it was raining again.)
Yeah video of rain, but it's something that doesn't happen often enough where I am and certainly not falling gently on tall evergreen trees like this. We did get some rain in San Diego last week and it was a nice gentle rain, smelled wonderful too. I'm lucky to live on the edge of a canyon and get the benefit of a wild area in my 'backyard'. I also live right next to a very busy street and we're on the second floor so definitely can tell when it's raining.
So, on with dinner. Cooked the steaks and mushrooms on the Red Dragon wood stove.
Then Miki made a wonderful salad with various greens (store bought but augmented with a few onion tops and kale from her garden) and I got to taste her Raspberry Vinairgrette dressing. I am not a big fan of raspberry but whatever magical stuff she used, it was fantastic! (I think it was the honey and garlic). Needless to say, my dinner went from a beautiful plate. Baked potatoes were cooked in the convection microwave and topped with butter and onion.
Needless to say, I cleaned my plate, with seconds on the salad!
Sigh. The steak was not cooked to my standards, but it was the first time on a wood stove, using a grill pan, I did all right I think!
And that was Saturday. The calm before the storm, figuratively that is. We were lucky there was just gentle rain and maybe a touch of wind with clouds while we were there. Sunday... is a whole other story.
"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are." - Adelle Davis
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