Curried Pasta Salad

Recuperating from our trip to Bath, NB the other day, I didn't feel for blogging at all. But as I know you all have had this phenomenon once in a while.

Pentecost is over us and the Island has come alive. Everywhere the summer houses are occupied, the Roosevelt Park is swamped with visitors, lots of traffic on the roads and the weather is playing along. Summer has finally arrived.
I didn't make a big fuss for dinner today. J.P. bought some pork ribs that he grilled, and we had a nice pasta salad to it.

Pasta salad: for 2
2 cups of pasta (enough for the salad and some leftover for lunch tomorrow)
1 celery, finely chopped
1 tomato, finely chopped
2 boiled eggs, 1 finely chopped, the other for decoration
2 tblsp fresh parsley
2 tblsp mustard
2 tbsp ketchup
2 tblsp white vinegar
1/4 tsp curry
garlic salt, pepper, sugar to taste

Boil pasta according to the directions on the package and add 2/3 of the amount into a bowl. Toss with the ingredients mentioned above and decorate with slices of boiled egg.

Lamb-burger and Fried Ice Cream

Have ever eaten lamb-burger? We did, today.
Good friends of ours came over to treat us with their version of lamb-bugers served on sesame buns with slices of cucumber in sour cream.

Lamb-burger, Cucumber in sour cream, string beans, potatoes

Very tasty! Not at all mutton-like.
I needed to get the recipe but my friend said, she just put them together, somehow.
Well, if there is no recipe, we have try it ourselves one time.
Our contribution was string beans and some potatoes because I knew at least one who likes to eat that.

Dessert: Fried Ice Cream. Never had eaten that before either. Yummy.
Thank you, for a very good dinner, and a lovely evening, Rogette and William!

Cosmos and Cabbage

Another day spent on the road, driving between home and St. Stephen. It was for the last of all my doctor's appointments, I hope. The month of May is the month to get all the "ducks in a row" and be done with it.
Now I have to wait for the results to trickle in.
But - on the other hand, the day was just the day to do it. Foggy and wet, I couldn't have done anything in the garden anyway.
After the appointment I took a quick turn into the bargain shop ( as a goodie for the suffering at the doctors' office), and then off to the grocery department before turning towards home.

Got more flower seeds..

and other "stuff" :))

Back home again we headed to check out the van that we are doing the drivers test on tomorrow. At least I wanted to know where to open the hood and where the wipers and light breakers are. Off course we took a short trip to the next parking lot, and I did some parking manoeuvres. To get the feeling, sort of.
I wish we had already tomorrow evening!
That done the day was pretty much over and supper time coming up.

Steamed red and whit cabbage, kielbasa sausage

The meal was pretty down to earth. Steamed cabbage in white sauce, potatoes, and a piece of kielbasa sausage for hubby.

Springtime Sunday

Apple blossoms
What a gorgeous day we had. The air like velvet and all colours so vibrant! I just LOVE springtime!

Chickadee catching a larvae

After breakfast on the porch I puttered a little more around in my garden. Later, J.P. went off with Molly driving around the island and shooting over 100 of photos. Lots of good shots!

I particularly like the one where the chickadee gets a larvae out of the apple blossoms. THAT really shows the advantage of having these little feathered helpers around. Same thing with our hummingbirds. They don't only drink sugar water, but eat a lot if mosquitos as well.

The afternoon was spent with fresh waffles and reading two books about Tasha Tudor's garden. Delightful reading. What a dream of an old fashioned cottage garden.






For dinner I made oven baked chicken breast with peaches and cilantro.

I surrounded the chicken with the content of a can of peaches. Both fruit and syrup.
Seasoned with salt, 1/4 tsp of curry and crushed coriander (cilantro) seeds.

Chicken breast and peaches on a bed of rice

My own composition and we both agreed that this was a very good combination. It needed a little bit more "ompf". Maybe I'll add some crushed chili next time. Have to think about it.