Showing posts with label zoo concert picnic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoo concert picnic. Show all posts

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Few days, no post (back at the grind)

So over the last few days I had my wonderful parents invade my home to help watch Molly while I went back to work for a few days. While the work, and the people, were very stimulating and really got my juices flowing for going back to school my house/family/and cooking has fallen to the wayside. On Tuesday we went out to dinner at a great Thai Restaurant in town; mom and dad both had Yellow Curry, Brian of course had Masuman Curry, and I had Lemon Grass Chicken that I shared with Miss Molly. It was fantastic and lead to plenty of leftovers, well mine was fantastic the rest of the group said their curries were a little bland, but the appetizers were good. Anyway, on Wednesday we had another Zoo concert Leroy Bell and his band My Only Friends played. They were great, but my daughter's -who only had about a 20 minute nap- left much to be desired and I didn't feel like I really got to enjoy the music. Guess I will just have to settle for buying his CD's and listening to them in the car, in the kitchen, and in my classroom while I set everything up! My dad refused to let us pay for the Thai dinner asking instead that I make another crumble. At the time I was out of blackberries but I did have a pint of fresh blueberries from our CSA bag, and four nectarines. So I used the exact same recipe as before just instead of blackberries it was a combination of the two other fruits. I have found that I really enjoy nectarines, in any way they come in. LOVE THE FLAVOR! Click here for previous post which includes recipe. Just switch the berries!
The berries!



The crumble before and after baking.


Finished product, we ate it warm before the juice could really set, but I think this combination of berries might have needed a bit more flour than the blackberries. The previous crumble was perfectly set, this one was a bit watery.


The Monday night before my parents got here we had grilled flank steak with tossed salad, steamed green beans (done on the grill, click here for how I did it.) and garlic and olive oil noodles. Brian didn't care for this salad, it was tossed simply with olive oil, vinegar, and celery salt. I thought it was great with pieces of meat but Brian wasn't into it.  Anywho, aside from the second crumble, and the food packed for the picnic this was the last thing I cooked in the last few days.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Zoo Concert Picnic

So tonight we are going to hear Great Big Sea at the zoo, since we are zoo members we get in for free so we take advantage and go during the summer to as many of the concerts as we can. We went all last summer and have gone all of this summer, and Molly really enjoys it.
This is Molly dancing at the last concert we went to.

On the menu for tonight's picnic:
  • Garlic Turkey Subs (we had these last night for dinner and they were so good I changed my plans from what we were originally going to have).
  • Kettle Brand Chips (Salt & Pepper) Seen in pic from last night's dinner.
  • Crudites with dip
  • Blueberries

  • Rocky Road Brownies
Now for the brownies on a picnic the best way to take them and store them so they don't all mash together is to wrap them in wax paper and then put them into a plastic container like the following:




We will be meeting up with Auntie Jenn and Uncle Jim for tonight's concert, it should be fun!




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