Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Adrift in the Blooms

Want to come stand under a canopy of cherry blossoms? Well come on over and do just that. I wait all year for my tree do bust out with all her glory and without fail she gives us a show every year.


The new/old window





Somewhere along the line a gained a cool old window that someone had discarded. It had a wood frame and the glass sort of looked like "bubbles" I have held on to it for years thinking that someday I would make something cool and functional out of it so I did just that. Even though its not quite finished here I wanted to post it. My husband is going to hang two chains from it and I am going to hang it from my front porch. I think it will make a lovely addition.......

Shrimping Adventure

Well we made it out shrimping again this year. Seeing as though there are only four days a year to do it we have managed to make it three out of the four. It was a lovely day this past Saturday, the winds and water were calm and the sun actually made a showing too. It doesn't get better than that! Had a really fun day with friends and scored some nice Hood Canal Shrimp to boot. I made shrimp cocktails later that evening. My husband said they were good and I have to take his word for it since I am allergic to shrimp!

Shrimp Cocktail

7-10 Fresh Shrimp
3 ribs of celery
3/4 cups ketchup
1/2 tbsp horseradish
dash of worseshire sauce
fresh squeezed lemon

Boil shrimp with enough water to cover 3-4 minutes. Meanwhile chop celery finely, add to cocktail glass. Mix up the ketchup, horseradish, worsheshire sauce, squeeze of lemon, mix throughly and top the celery with sauce. Rinse, peel shrimp add it to cocktail glass, squeeze small amount of lemon on top, garnish with celery top and wedge of lemon.






More Yard Photos





The Delights of Gardening

I am stoked about working in my yard and making everything beautiful! There are lots of projects to do and I have more ideas in my head for loads more projects. I have always wanted to have a Red scarlet bean teepee and I am determined to fulfill that dream this year. Hopefully I will post pictures of that later on in the year. For now I am posting pictures of my yard.




Friday, May 6, 2011

A beautiful day at the canal

Had a wonderful day at the canal two weekends ago. We gathered oysters and sat and shucked some of them on the beach. Thinking about making fried oysters for that evenings dinner. We also shucked some for the bait boxes for shrimping that we are planning to do tomorrow. Greg has everything you could think of for bait. Hopefully I will be posting pictures of shrimp in the next few days! Anyway the oysters were fantastic! I also made some tarter sauce to go with it.............so good

Fried Oysters

2 dozen fresh oysters, shucked
3/4 cup corn starch
2 eggs beaten
1 cup panko

Wash Oysters set aside. Get three bowls and add corn starch to one, the beaten eggs to the second and panko to the third. Heat oil to 350 approx and roll an oyster in corn starch, then the eggs, then panko, fry for two minutes. Drain on paper towels.


Tarter Sauce

1 cup best foods mayo
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1 clove garlic finely chopped
1/4 sweet pickle relish
1/2 tspn dried dill weed
fresh squeezed lemon

Combine all ingredients, cover and refrigerate for at least 1/2 hour