Kitchen closed......

my kitchen is sort of closed. I've pretty much stuck to the weekly plan, but see all these dishes in the fridge?
they contain leftovers from Sunday's roast beef, Monday's baked pasta, Tuesday's burgers and hot links and Weds. pizza.
So tonight, we had leftovers for supper and made a pretty big dent in them. I expect we will finish them off tomorrow and then it will be back to regular cooking.



And I have to confess that I did do just a little cooking today. When I organized the fridge space, I came across the 6 egg whites left from the chocolate icebox pie on Sunday. I did not want to let them spoil so I baked 1/2 a recipe of Angel Food Cake.
I will post the pie recipe soon.

What's been going on at my home

We went to a few yard sales on Saturday. Not much purchased though,
I did find these 8 napkins, white with black and red cherries- 50 cents for the set

and 2 packs of vintage rick rack - 10 cents. Can you read on the packages how much they originally sold for?

I cooked a big meal and as I prepared the dishes, I lined them up so I could keep everything straight. First I put the roast beef in the oven. Then I peeled the potatoes, got the carrots ready to bake, cut the fresh corn off the cob and put it in a pan to cook on the stove top, made bread dough and have it rising, made a marinated vegetable salad like I read about on Lyn's blog and made a chocolate icebox pie.
Once all that was done, I put the salad and pie in the fridge, then I took a shower!

close up of Lyn's salad

This book arrived in today's mail. I won in a giveaway at Kusine.com - a really neat blog about sewing, gardening, cooking - if you have time, go visit.

Now I just have to decide which project to sew first........

Misc. from this week

Cantalopes raised by one of Jeff's coworkers - the same man that gave us last weeks corn - I think I owe him a plate of cookies.

corn and tomatoes from my brother's garden.

a Pyrex bowl my parents found an estate sale

fresh baked pound cake

Jeff bought a crazy-big watermelon. We try to get one every year from a farmer from Rush Springs who sells them out of his pick up truck. It probably weighs close to 40lbs.


A bucket full of Gavin, now at 17 months, and less than a year ago in the same bucket. Boy babies turn into little boys very quick!

Baby Elizabeth is 7 weeks old. She is wearing a onesie with little wooden shoes on it. My friend Heidi in Holland sent it to her along with 3 others, the others have tulips and little tags of windmills.


I've been busy this week with fresh produce, cooking, company and sweet grandchildren.
How about you, what were you busy with this week?