Date day.
One day it was like 72 degrees outside and I made soup with the leftover pot roast meat from last week. It was lovely and all I could think about was all the hot soups that will be cooked on the wood stove this winter. We won’t be having soup today though…. We’ll probably have dinner at the ice cream stand {with about a million other people} because it’s supposed to be a high of 95 today! Yikes!
The HH made quesadillas for dinner one night. This time around he added chopped jalapeno peppers from our garden and now that’s the only way I want to eat quesadillas from now on. 🙂
Sooo many tomatoes! This week we were practically swimming in them. I made tomato sauce and popped it in the freezer to use later this year.
Dehydrated tomatoes. {I like to add them in biscuits, scones and biscotti during the winter months}.
Tomato salads every.single.day.
Cream of Wheat with fresh fruit.
Local Apple Orchard $7.00
Zestar apples. Have you ever tried them? Tart for the first few bites and then super sweet. I like them! I think I might go back for more.
Pickety bits for Mrs. HB.
She brought me chocolate! 🙂 And a cigar for the HH.
Bricco Salumeria & Pasta Shop $30
With a grandmother who was a full blooded Italian, I pretty much grew up eating salami and let me tell you Bob, the salami from Bricco Salumeria is the best stuff on earth!
The best meal of the week though was with our neighbors at the neighborhood progressive potluck dinner. The entire street was invited and there was a nice mix of age groups. Some people have lived on our street for over 30 years, and a few have trickled in over the past two years {us included!} and it was a wonderful way to meet the people on our street.
We had appetizers at one house, main course at the next and finally dessert on someone’s screened in back porch. The HH made a double batch of his Broccoli Cashew Salad and the salad received lot’s of compliments. The HH and I had a really good time and we were so glad we went. I told him we should host some sort of winter party {maybe a soup and bread get together?} at the end of January or February to break up the monotony of winter. We’ll see.
It was a good week, with lot’s of variety!
~Mavis
Total Spent in August $259.90 <– $30 on salami splurge
Total Spent in July $276.56 < – $38 Spent on Amish meat and cheese
Total Spent in June $206.47 <- Attempting once a month grocery shopping
Total Spent in May on Groceries $216.50 <- Included a stock up trip to King Arthur Flour
Total Spent in April on Groceries $169.98
Total Spent in March on Groceries $306.75 <– Apartment life, moving across the country and settling into a new house
Total Spent in February on Groceries $259.81 <- Living in an apartment and buying a lot of ready-made meals
Total Spent in January on Groceries $240.15 <– Packing mode and not cooking from scratch as much
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