Those photos are just from my camera card from late September and these first few days of October. The camera malfunctions enough to no longer be reliable to take important photos that cannot be missed, but for capturing slower life scenes it still can be prodded and wrangled into finally taking the shot I was trying for.
Keeping corn on the cob warm by wrapping the cooked cobs in dish clothes/tea towels is what my mom always did when she served it. Do you think I could find anyone on the internet suggesting this when I looked for just now "how to keep corn on the cob warm on the table"? So far, no. Surely other people must do this too? This is just meant to sit on the table for a family meal. If you were catering a larger group, you would likely need a crock pot or something as it sits longer. Anyways, I brought back some of my mom's dish clothes that she doesn't need anymore and took this photo as we had the last of the corn on the cob for the summer.
The rest of corn I cooked and froze to use throughout the winter. My mom always froze corn and it tastes so good in winter soups and meals. My mom also served cauliflower steamed and I hated eating it since it was usually waterlogged and bitter. My mom no longer cooks, but she was a great cook, but as a child there were a few vegetables I really, really did not like steamed. Roasting and stir-fry to the rescue!
I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have bought a cauliflower head and cooked it. Two times it was probably used in a broccoli soup as a nod to the Subway soup I used to get for Kate before she could eat a sub sandwich. Two more times, it was probably roasted with a few other root vegetables and not very noticeable. And once I think I tried to make it like mac and cheese, but used cauliflower in place of the macaroni. It wasn't terrible, but I had a vague remembrance that my family felt like I had cheated them out of mac and cheese.
A couple of weeks ago, it was on sale at a local grocery store and before I could stop myself, I picked one up, perfectly creamy white and brought it home. I kept looking at it in the fridge and then finally took the plunge a few days in and decided to roast it by itself with enormous amounts of olive oil, salt and pepper and massive amounts of parmesan cheese. When I asked for feedback from my husband, he said and I quote, "I liked it. I wouldn't normally care for cauliflower, but cooked like this, it tastes good." Exactly my thoughts. Smother something in olive oil, seasonings and cheese and it has to be good.
The mantle is currently flanked with two depictions of our little Siamese/Tabby cat. The newest addition is a cross-stich piece of a Siamese cat that looks just like our Flossie. It looks like it was done by someone with the initials M.T. and then the year '86 added underneath. Laura found it while we were thrift-shopping in my in-law's town back in early August with visiting family. It looks exactly like her so we had to bring it home.
The kids joke that we have no family or childhood photos around, just pictures of our cat. I'm afraid I've never been one to hang up family photos except for one brief stint in a collage frame I bought many years ago and even that didn't last very long. I have no explanation except we didn't have a lot of family photos in my house as a child so maybe it's my mom's fault! But Flossie is so pretty, it's hard to say no to depictions of her breed. Oh well, I try to show love to my kids in other ways that hopefully makes up for the missing framed photos of their sweet baby faces.
I have so many classic novels on the go right now, it seemed only right to add Don Quixote to the mix especially when I realized there was a whole book of illustrations that most modern editions do not include. I borrowed both from the library and might need to order copies for myself. I'm only one chapter in but I have already laughed and reread certain parts multiple times.
For the first time in a long time, I'm dipping fall leaves in beeswax. I usually press them with wax paper and enjoy them while they last which is usually only a few months. I've been adding to the collection every few days as the leaves fall, putting them on display, using them as props in photos and centerpieces for a dinner table. I have a small two-handled copper-bottomed sauce pan I thrifted years ago that I keep handy to melt the beeswax in.
Keeping corn on the cob warm by wrapping the cooked cobs in dish clothes/tea towels is what my mom always did when she served it. Do you think I could find anyone on the internet suggesting this when I looked for just now "how to keep corn on the cob warm on the table"? So far, no. Surely other people must do this too? This is just meant to sit on the table for a family meal. If you were catering a larger group, you would likely need a crock pot or something as it sits longer. Anyways, I brought back some of my mom's dish clothes that she doesn't need anymore and took this photo as we had the last of the corn on the cob for the summer.
The rest of corn I cooked and froze to use throughout the winter. My mom always froze corn and it tastes so good in winter soups and meals. My mom also served cauliflower steamed and I hated eating it since it was usually waterlogged and bitter. My mom no longer cooks, but she was a great cook, but as a child there were a few vegetables I really, really did not like steamed. Roasting and stir-fry to the rescue!
I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have bought a cauliflower head and cooked it. Two times it was probably used in a broccoli soup as a nod to the Subway soup I used to get for Kate before she could eat a sub sandwich. Two more times, it was probably roasted with a few other root vegetables and not very noticeable. And once I think I tried to make it like mac and cheese, but used cauliflower in place of the macaroni. It wasn't terrible, but I had a vague remembrance that my family felt like I had cheated them out of mac and cheese.
A couple of weeks ago, it was on sale at a local grocery store and before I could stop myself, I picked one up, perfectly creamy white and brought it home. I kept looking at it in the fridge and then finally took the plunge a few days in and decided to roast it by itself with enormous amounts of olive oil, salt and pepper and massive amounts of parmesan cheese. When I asked for feedback from my husband, he said and I quote, "I liked it. I wouldn't normally care for cauliflower, but cooked like this, it tastes good." Exactly my thoughts. Smother something in olive oil, seasonings and cheese and it has to be good.
The mantle is currently flanked with two depictions of our little Siamese/Tabby cat. The newest addition is a cross-stich piece of a Siamese cat that looks just like our Flossie. It looks like it was done by someone with the initials M.T. and then the year '86 added underneath. Laura found it while we were thrift-shopping in my in-law's town back in early August with visiting family. It looks exactly like her so we had to bring it home.
The kids joke that we have no family or childhood photos around, just pictures of our cat. I'm afraid I've never been one to hang up family photos except for one brief stint in a collage frame I bought many years ago and even that didn't last very long. I have no explanation except we didn't have a lot of family photos in my house as a child so maybe it's my mom's fault! But Flossie is so pretty, it's hard to say no to depictions of her breed. Oh well, I try to show love to my kids in other ways that hopefully makes up for the missing framed photos of their sweet baby faces.
I have so many classic novels on the go right now, it seemed only right to add Don Quixote to the mix especially when I realized there was a whole book of illustrations that most modern editions do not include. I borrowed both from the library and might need to order copies for myself. I'm only one chapter in but I have already laughed and reread certain parts multiple times.
For the first time in a long time, I'm dipping fall leaves in beeswax. I usually press them with wax paper and enjoy them while they last which is usually only a few months. I've been adding to the collection every few days as the leaves fall, putting them on display, using them as props in photos and centerpieces for a dinner table. I have a small two-handled copper-bottomed sauce pan I thrifted years ago that I keep handy to melt the beeswax in.
The little wooden carved bird was made by a friend of my in-law's who was visiting them a few weeks back when Kate and I stopped by. Kate was introduced to him and immediately gave him a hug. He was so touched by this that he went out to his truck and brought one to give Kate. He sands the birds so very smooth and then usually stains them in gorgeous earth colors and sells them. We've seen them for sale in a store nearby and Laura even bought one a couple of years ago for a friend who was admiring them. And now, we have one for us too!
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