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Pies in all walks of life and the wild r complex creatures ruled by their pastry ,filling, shape ,and size
Very few r more like sausage rolls in their outlook on life. Gravey,peas ,and chips etc r just accessories. Just basic sauce is the only adornment ?

What type do u attract and what type do u want on the other hand ?

What type r u ?

As temperatures soar here, I find myself diligently watering the front and back gardens morning and night. The one downfall of having all those huge shrubs removed - now I need to water my flowers and plants, and weed the garden.

The overgrown shrubs that were here never needed any such care, but then, they looked overgrown and uncared for, too. Even with majorly trimming them back last year, they couldn't be trimmed back far enough. So now I have lovely rose bushes and other flowers, that require watering, and the beds need to be weeded at least once a week.

While in the back garden, where I've planted a half-assed vegetable garden, I noted that one of the three zucchini plants Mom started for me has a small zucchini on it. W00t! I love zucchini and frequently use it in place of cucumber, as I'm not so fond of it. Also, zoodles are one of my favourite dishes.

I call it my half-assed garden as I got started really late, and only planted two tomato plants and 3 zucchini plants. I had thought of planting green beans (or maybe yellow, as I really love those), but as the bushes were pulled out late and the weather turned cold and wet, I didn't get around to it in time. And I just wasn't into it.

Next year, I'll start earlier, get a bunch of top soil, and plant some salad fixings. At my farm up north, I had a tremendous veggie garden, and despite the heat, grew amazing lettuce. It was awesome to go out and pick the lettuce, tomatoes, green onion, radishes, etc and be able to have a home-grown salad every day. Maybe next year I'll get my act together.

One of my tomato plants this year has a tomato that should be ready to pick tomorrow. I probably could have picked it today, but thought I'd give it one more day. Yay! My first homegrown tomato of the year. My mouth is already watering anticipating it's warm juiciness, fresh off the vine.

Tomorrow, very early, like maybe at 4:30am, I'm going out for my bike ride before it gets to darn hot. Today, the only time I went outside was to return library books and pick up some fresh fruit at the market. That's the only down-side of living here - all the wonderful fruit is ready at the same time. Blueberries, peaches, raspberries, strawberries, nectarines, plums, cherries, apricots - all ripe and ready right now. I love all those fruits, but simply can't eat that much in a week.

Yellow beans are a favourite vegetable of mine, and I picked some up today and then was given some fresh beans from my neighbour's garden as he's grown too many. I absolutely love this friendly neighbourhood and great community. What a difference from my previous abode.

So now I have enough food to last me into next week and I just hope I can get motivated to cook it, as right now, with it being as hot as it is, I don't feel like eating, never mind cooking.

From sea to plate in less than 30 mins

Now that's real fast food

Many around here, including me, do this every year.

There have been so many uplifting blogs and people saying nice things about each other I couldn't help being motivated to share my contented thoughts!!

It's getting to be almost summer here and my first one in Arizona. I have lived in Southern California and Colorado for so many years I finally decided to get away from the big town noise and the small city freezing winters.

I really intended to live in Laughlin, Nevada but I picked up a small town newspaper at the hotel we were at when we visited Laughlin and it said that "Bullhead City, AZ was on of the most cheapest places to live". So I crossed the river and I looked around. It wasn't the nice looking look that Laughlin had, but sure enough, the prices were right.

The basic needs for one was also easily available so I just settled here. In short time I found a nice cheap apartment just made for a single irresponsible man like me. Things were rolling.

The winter was mild, kind of windy at times with "El Nino" kicking up some rain but it wasn't cold. I didn't have to put the heater on one time.

Spring sprang and it started getting warmer with lots of small rain showers. The beauty of just warmth and the clear skies made me start looking around at the fauna. The fauna coupled with the natural beauty of the Colorado River and the remnants of the formation of this valley also includes the widest array of rocks.

Now I know that rocks, by themselves, may not mean too much. But these rocks are different. They are round and smooth & rough and craggy as the water that rushed down to the Sea of Cortez tossed and turned them into what they look like now.

These rocks are very beautiful. They are full of color and details so wonderful I find myself just relaxing looking at them. THEN!!! Add the fauna I spoke about earlier and you have NATURE at it's best in the desert.

These plants are not the manicured non-native plants that can make a yard in Southern California look like a garden and a garden resembling what the plant architect intended. Nor are they farmland plants in Colorado. The sad point about Southern California faunas is you need tons and tons of water to keep them looking nice. Unfortunately after awhile that gets tiresome and they turn weedy and dead!

The plants here are actually the weeds sprouting as they have for centuries. These flowers, which I will refer to them as, have a flat plant base with spindly arms reaching upward. They're probably about 5 inches wide at the base and the arms are also maybe 5 inches high. And at the end of each arm are the blossoms.

These blossoms are rich red blossoms about 1/4" in size. They look like small roses. They are also bright yellow resembling daisy's or perhaps sunflowers! Then there are the pink ones and the white ones.

Yes, they are sparse but still just as beautiful. And in the dusk hours I sit in my patio chair and look at the bats as they swoop and turn abruptly picking mosquitos and flies out of space. You can call it "Meals on Wings"!!

There is so much more and then the finale. The enjoyment and contentment I have just being here makes me so happy. Yes, I miss my kids and G-kids but they are just a 4 hour drive away.

I wished you all were here and we could journey over to the Colorado River and enjoy a BBQ and some cold ones.

I am going to do a tribute "Robt787" closing. This blog is just for fun!! No offence intended!! To all of you --->

My niece graduated from a college of Asian Medicine last year and (in the future) may enroll for the advanced studies in Shanghai China. She was talking to my wife at a party and got on the subject of vegetables with natural health benefits.

One that interested her was Bitter Melon. She described it's appearance and I said I recall seeing it in the local Asian market that we often shop at. I bought some for all of us.

My wife prepared some that was sauteed with carrots. It looked okay and without testing a slice, I put a bunch on my plate.

Bitter may not be the correct word... it stuff is horrible tasting! I ran to the refrigerator for some vinegarette dressing to mask the flavor and continue to choke down the rest.

My wife asked if I wanted more...

Remember those mesh bags of chocolate coins we got as kids ?



Well, what can I buy with them now ?

I might be willing to make an investment.

A while back, I bought some cashews in a plastic jar with removable lid. when the cashews were gone, I decided to clean and reuse the container. Sometimes, it's for storage of workshop parts, screws, bolts, washers, etc. This time, I decided to use the empty to hold Ginger Snaps. The brand I buy (from the dollar store) come in a bag so I figured it would be easier than clipping the bag each time I wanted a cookie.

The cookies have sugar so I only have 1 or 2 a week and noticed after a month, they aren't as crunchy as when the bag was first opened or when clipped every time I opened. Obviously, it's the air in the container making them stale where I'm unable to close tight like the bag.

As kids, my grandmother baked so well, that neighbors would come to watch her, taking notes as she kept all her secret recipes in her head!
My brother told me she used to work in a bakery and that's where she honed her cooking skills.

As far as her cookies go, when we visited, she would wrap her freshly baked cookies (chocolate chip were her best) in wax paper and aluminum foil for us to bring home.
We weren't concerned about sugar then, so the cookies weren't around long enough to become stale.

Something to note... her secret for soft chocolate chip cookies was substituting orange juice for milk in the recipe.

Forty Day Moussaka

A tasty dish to sustain a large family on a long wet sea voyage.

And God said unto Noah, take thee into the ark two extra sheep and a large oven proof dish, three cubits in length, two cubits in width, and about half a cubit in depth.

Make thee a shopping list, and send forth Mrs. Noah to the shops that she may assemble the ingredients to maketh a mighty dish of proportions sufficient to feed thee and thy kin for the duration of a lengthy deluge.

And Mrs. Noah took the list and brought back into the ark a multitude of ingredients; making three separate trips to the shops.

And God said unto Mrs. Noah, make thee a Moussaka, and this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of:

First, thou must mince the flesh of two lambs , which thou will put into a large heavy-based frying pan, along with onion, smote garlic, mint, bay leaf and cinnamon, whereupon thou must cook over a medium heat for ten minutes.

Next must thou stir in thy flour; then thy wine, tomatoes and tomato puree; simmer thee this mix for thirty minutes and set aside.

And Mrs. Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded her.

And God commanded that Mrs. Noah slice her Aubergines and fry them three minutes on each side, and afterwards to place them on kitchen paper to drain, and God saw that they were good.

And the Lord said unto Mrs. Noah, because I am a merciful God, I will not require that thou makest thy own bechamel sauce, but behold, I will furnish thee with one I made earlier, as bechamel sauce be verily beyond thy talents.

And God decreed that a third of the meat sauce be spooned into the three by two cubit dish, followed by a layer of sliced aubergine, and nicely topped off with the Lord’s own bechamel sauce.

For yet 35-45 minutes at gas mark 6 must thou bakest thy dish, forgetting not to sprinkle with fresh Parmesan.

Serve with freshly baked ciabatta, and olive oil for dipping.



Next week’s dish will be the Recipe for Lasagne according to St. Matthew.

Been on diet the last year and a half but occasionally has a cheat day and today is one of those days. Mess of Rotten Ronnie's chicken nuggets and fries for supper when it gets here.

No weight loss today and my heart will protest for sure