I'm still here and drooling over everyone's delicious looking dinners. I've been posting, although probably not quite as often. I started a blog Thibeault's Table and it has taken up much more time than I expected it too. It is a work in progress. I didn't realize that it had been so long since I posted on the WFD thread. We are still eating well. Here are a few of the meals we have had in the past few weeks . Lori's Parmesan Crusted Halibut Clams steamed with white wine and garlic with homemade bread for dipping. Chicken and Dumplings (Southern Style) Homemade Donuts. Made three different neighbours very happy with fresh warm donuts. Wings with homemade Potato Chips Tex Mex - Pork Chili Verde with homemade flour tortillas Greek Ribs - Grilled Roast Leg of Pork Saucisson Au Chocolate et aux Figues (Chocolate Salami) I made crepes one night and we had them for dinner and dessert. The main course was crepes were filled with chicken and mushroom in a cream sauce and the dessert crepes will filled with goat cheese and dulce de leche. A recreation of Matthew's favourite dessert from a little Mexican restaurant that we use to go to in Toronto. Panfried Breaded Pork chops Nigella's Chocolate Chip Muffins Roast Chicken again. Matthew and Dana came up for dinner one night and we had Grilled Prime Rib steaks. Dessert was Blackberry cobbler. I'm still baking bread on a regular basis, and I'm trying to keep Bagels in the freezer. Moe loves them toasted for breakfast. Chicken Kung Pao Spaghetti with bolognese sauce. We usually have pasta of some sort once a week or at least every 10 days. Made Pancakes for breakfast one morning and yesterday's breakfast was a bacon, mushroom and potato hash with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. Pizza Anna Olson's Ultimate Chocolate Cake. I drizzled it with caramel sauce although that wasn't part of the recipe. And last night we had a Corned beef and Cabbage dinner.

Ann, I'm not renting the farm, I'm trying to get renters off the farm. Of course, my understanding of renters is that they pay rent, which these people were not doing. Dad rented a "lot" to them to put a house trailer on. I evicted them. They left the trailer there, along with piles of garbage, old tires, dilapidated campers and sheds, they built a pen for a horse out into the hay field. (The horse died after two months, probably from the filth). when they moved they left a duck in a cage outside the trailer. It's dead, probably starved to death because no one knew it was there. It's still there, dead in the cage. They have promised for 8 months to clean it up and haven't, so I made a police report for illegal dumping, littering, malicious destruction of property, improper disposal of a dead animal, various health department violations and anything else I could think of. Dave came up with a loader for township clean-up a couple of weeks ago and we filled a dumpster and a half with the couches that they threw out in the middle of the orchard, the old tub surround in the back yard, mattresses and chair, you name it. Plus an entire outbuilding full of bags of garbage that they've been bringing from their current residence since they moved out. Yup, they brought all their garbage out here and dumped it. Ugh. They didn't show up to help at township clean-up and there's at least 3 more dumpsters full of filth out there. So, I've been busy. I did grill chicken one day last week, we killed and plucked those 30 broilers and I marinated one and cut it up. Sure enough, it was black on the outside but it was better than usual. It wasn't bloody on the inside, but it was way overcooked. I don't like to grill at all, I'm too impatient and I don't like grilled food well enough to subject myself to the technique. Annie

That stuffed tenderloin looks wonderful Ann! And so does your chicken, Dixie. I'll have one each of Terri's funnel cakes and Marigene's muffins with my coffee please. Thanks Lou for your sauce recipe! I'll let you know how we like it if I can find those ingredients. Yes Ann, I haven't made chicken wings before because they have just started appearing in one of our supermarkets. They're still more or less unknown here. For years chickens were sold only whole or in halves and not in trays of individual parts. It's only recently that we could even find trays of thighs or drumsticks. But this is the first time I've seen wings for sale. Not much cooking going on here as we've finished up some leftovers and had bacon & eggs with fried tomatoes another day. Saturday we were out at the Austrian restaurant and had: Wolf....chose Suelze, a cold sliced jellied pork. I felt like some salad so took chicken breasts on salad with a side of chips. Afterward we made a drive with the car for a recycle drop and then to a supermarket for some small shopping. We had coffee at home. It's been raining a bit again at night.....we sure need it, and the garden is looking happy, as are the birds and the bees. Included some macros from the garden taken over the past couple of days: Rain on rosebud, jade plant bud, bee on osteospermum and brunsfelsia bud. Have a good weekend! SharonCb

Dixie I really must try your fire and ice salad.....it looks so good. I've copied and pasted it. Ann those prawns and avocado are one of my favourite combos as well. Just wish our lime tree would hurry up and produce. All citrus crops in the Canaries were devastated by the April hot winds. Just hope I get some fruit this fall. Nice burritos AM and your blog is great! Marigene....all you've made looks delish. I envy you being able to make some of Annie's salsa. We don't get any canning equipment over here. Perhaps I'll try and make some for my daughter when I get to Canada next month. Light and easy food these past days. Weather has been hot and humid and I've been clearing out closets in the guest bedrooms and caught a bit of a stomach bug. So I made a vegetable frittata one day to use up leftover veggies, together with a salad. And yesterday we went out to the newly tried restaurant of the other day where I had the gorgonzola tortellini. This time that was Wolfram's choice while I took ravioli in tomato sauce. Weather was lovely yesterday with a little breeze. View across the side street from the restaurant was of a pretty little Spanish cottage and a beautiful Canary palm. SharonCb