Moe’s birthday dinner. Grilled Filet Mignon with roasted potatoes, asparagus and corn on the cob. Cooked just the way we like it. Rolled Meringue Cakewith with Strawberries and whipped cream. It is a family tradition to celebrate Moe’s birthday witha strawberry dessert.

 Potato, poblano chili peppers and cheese Quesadillas. With Home-made flour tortillas Potatoes are fried first and then combined with fried onions, garlic and roasted chopped poblano peppers. Spread on tortillas and topped with cheese and another tortilla. Cooked in a cast iron pan with a little butter.Served with homemade salsa.

Twins #165 and #164.  Fraternal not Identical. These two “Table Art” boards were cut from consecutive slices off  a thicker plank.

Table Art Quilted Maple

I grill all year around, but there is something  about summer grilling. We have been having wonderful weather  here on the west coast of Canada. Summer weather. Chicken legs (and one breast) rubbed with fresh garlic, and seasoned with salt, pepper, oregano and the juice of a large lemon. Potato wedges  rubbed with garlic, Greek…

Just a few of our May meals. Chicken Fried Rice Italian Chicken  with  Pasta Aglio E Olio Goulash with Spaetzle Chicken Enchiladas With Enchiladas Sauce  Grilled Hot Dogs Fresh Halibut  over a bed of spinach with a dill and lemon buerre blanc sauce.

Another catch up post. We have been so busy recently with our Boards, that I haven’t been good about posting to  the blog. I’ll try to be better in May. Asian Lettuce Cups Burger and Wedge Salad with Buttermilk Ranch Dressing. Chicken Souvlaki Chicken Tacos with homemade corn tortillas. Eggplant Parmesan Burgers and Grilled Potatoes…

Halibut seasoned opened mid-march. Something I look forward to every year. One of my favourite ways to serve halibut. We lived in Dunkirk, NY for a couple of years and would often go into Buffalo for lunch or dinner.  One of our favourite spots was Cafe Garangelo  where they served this fish dish, and the…

A diary of the Breads of March. 12 Small Rolls from 1000g batch of dough. Buttered. Perfect size  for brisket of beef sandwiches. Two sourdough baguettes Close up Crumb. This bread makes great toast. ~~~ * ~~~For this bake day I made three batches of dough.One was my standard white – 750g batch at 68%…

We had our St. Patrick’s Day dinner a few days early. Rather than the typical boiled corned beef  (which no one here likes) I slow roasted the corned beef.  .  This is my favourite way to prepare a corned beef.  Seasoned like a pastrami.   Rubbed with fresh garlic, lots of black pepper, and a…