Saturday, July 13, 2013

SUMMERTIME...(SING IT LIKE ELLA!)

My 3 favourite salads are enough for a meal: watermelon salsa,
feta tomato chick pea (FOOD) and quinoa bean salad (CANADIAN LIVING). YUM!

I love the bushes in the back garden. This is the day's crop. Alas the season is always too short!
Nasturtium salad from the garden in our window boxes

Rachel Ray's Bruschetta - gorgeous with local cherry tomatoes

BEFORE

DURING

Made to order Spring Rolls


AFTER

Eating al fresco on Piazza San Marco

Shade garde looking great!

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

WE❤PEI


My husband had never been to the Maritimes, so we decided to spend a little time there this summer. We all loved PEI. The highlights were the red sand beaches, Green Gables, and a B and B run by a chef in Kensington with great food and personal service. It's called The Home Place and the owner's name is Glenda, and we tried to get back every day for supper, but wished we could be there for lunch too! Not that there was any disappointment elsewhere, but nothing quite compared. Cow's creamery ice cream is as delicious as they say, and reading Anne of Green Gables (abridged version) to my daughter was a real treat. Here's my delightful and filling vegetarian supper and me and my daughter crossing over the walk from Lucy Maude Montgomery's original homestead (I can't remember, but I'm sure the bridge and the river it crossed had a name like Bubbling Brooke or something similar!)


I love when a vegetarian meal actual gives me the protein I need! Yummy!  Indoors (it feels like you are at sea) at The Home Place

Walking to Green Gables with my daughter!

Cheese platter and wine in sunshine out on the patio at The Home Place

Red dunes of PEI beaches

Give a girl a beach!

Confederation Hall in Charlottetown

Fish and summer salad with beer (my hubbie's)