This
past weekend was absolutely beautiful, and we
soaked it up by being outside a lot. Once we were
home from camping on Friday afternoon, and we had met our adorable new nephew, we went home to make supper. We were craving vegetables, so we threw
veggie skewers on the BBQ, along with
portobello mushrooms stuffed with broccoli, green onions and cheese.
Plants for supper - mmm!
On
Saturday morning we got up early and went to the
farmers' market.
This
empanada was our breakfast:
We
ran into our niece Remi (well, and her parents 😄) and visited for a few minutes, before carrying on with our shopping.
We stopped at the
butcher too, and then dropped the meat and veggies off at home, before heading out again to the
grocery store to grab the rest of our week's groceries.
We were home by about
1:30, and enjoying
lunch in the backyard.
And
that's where we stayed for the rest of the day and evening. Our
afternoon snack was a bowl of
shelling peas, which we had snagged at the market that morning.
It took about
15 minutes inside in the evening for us to get
prepped for dinner. I got the potatoes ready, and Christopher made a BBQ sauce.
We cooked
ribs low and slow, and sauced them up multiple times throughout their time on the grill. The
potatoes were cooked slowly too, with parsley, green onion, salt, pepper, and a generous amount of butter.
Farmers' market
cukes on the side:
When I was little, someone taught me that these little
cucumbers are best when first
sprinkled with salt and
rubbed together like so ...
I do this any time I eat these now, and it always brings back memories of childhood.
Am I the only one who does this, or is it actually a
thing?
After making our
banana French toast on
Sunday, we were
back in the yard for another day of sunshine, music and relaxing. We ate
lunch outside again:
For dinner we
grilled salmon and
golden beets, and had those with a
couscous salad:
Have you been eating any of your meals outside? How was your weekend? What did you do?
