Work after work

So, yesterday after work, when I arrived at home I:

- hoovered seven rooms, including the bathrooms
  

                                           (no, not the deck of a boat, just my stairs :) )

- sweeped the stairs

  

- cleaned two bathrooms

  

- dusted
  

- and, in the end, I made the dinner.

I will see what I can do today but usually I'm not so energetic in the end of the day, I'm more a morning person.
I dream with the day I will not work outside anymore !

Pictures from AllPosters.

What's for dinner?

I was thinking about what I would do for dinner and it came to my mind a post I made here some years ago. I was talking about a favourite of mine: Blonde Potatoes. It's a recipe from my grandmother and I like it so much since I was a little girl. Better than chips. It can go with roasted meat or meatloaf. Or a steak. Very good also with a sauce made with onions and tomatoes. You can find the recipe here in this post Blonde Potatoes.

Have a good dinner.

Almost lunch time

Chilly leftover from yesterday's dinner on top of noodles.
Just an idea for your lunch.

Apple season

Some days ago my husband made this apple pie. It was very good and nice. Today I will make apple crumble. I'm not a fruit person but cooked apples, in a way or another, always have my attention.
Autumn, with all its beauty, has the added bonus of bringing apples too.
Apple season is in full and it will only end in the end of spring.
Well, in my house, I mean.

Stuffed red peppers

First we put some olive oil in a pan and fry, until transparent, maybe two onions, sliced. Also one or two courgettes, sliced too.

Add rice, mix and pour water on it.
DH, who made all this, instead of putting in a pan, he put in a tray. We can make the rice and then put it on a tray but DH say this is the best method.

While the rice is cooking, take a bottle - or can - of red peppers "piquillo". Thess peppers ares spanish and we buy it in a spanish supermarket we have here. I wonder if in America people have it too. Maybe in Mexico people eat it because of the spanish background.

So, we take one and put tuna, canned, inside as you can see here.


Put the peppers all over the tray, on top of the rice.




Put some grated cheese on top


and oven with it.


I must say, this is rather good!

Blonde potatoes

Today will will make blonde potatoes to eat with the meatloaf and we will make also a nice tomato and onion sauce.



While the meat is in the oven, I boil a bunch of little potatoes in their skins.



When they are boiled, I handle each of them with a fork and peel them.



Then I put some oil in a pan, not olive, sunflowers or something like that. I put in a big pan to avoid the hot spill going everywhere - it works as a wall.

When fried, I put on a kitchen paper to absorb the oil very well.

Ah, it's the most delicious thing, much better then french fries and such. I believe they are the best potatoes in all the world!

Now the sauce to put on the meatloaf.

Put some olive oil in a pan and add finely cut onion. When it is transparent, add tomato and parsley. You may add some seasoning you like, as oregano, for instance.

Add some water and let it boil.

You will see how good it is.

This was a recipe from my grandmother.

Meatloaf

Yesterday I made meat loaf. Now I must say it was a fat loaf. Usualy they are quite skinny but, because we are a lot of people and they always like when I make it, I decided to made a big one - sideways.


I put a nice load of minced meat in a a big pan - pans are always big here - with olive oil, onion, tomato, garlic, parsley, red pepper, salt and pepper. I fried the meat very well.


When it was ready, I added two eggs, beaten, and put some bread crumbs in it, mixed and put it in a thing to go to the oven. Sprinkled more bread crumbs on top and also a bit of cheese, greated.

Oven with it.




They where very pleased with it.
We ate it with blonde potatoes, as my grandmother used to call them.
More about it tomorow.

Pork chops

As you know, I lie to post some yammy things my husband cooks. Somebody complaned that I don't post the recipes. I even told that to my husband but the problem is he, sometimes, doesn't have a recipe, just cooks and it's all. Sometimes he has, sometimes he doesn't.

So today I will post yesterdays dinner and I'll try to remember what he used to cook:

pork chops

olive oil or butter

cream

mushrooms

mustard (with the grains)

salt

onion

parsley

big potatoes

green beans

cawliflower

Now.

He fried the chops - in butter or olive oil (?).

Added the onions and mushrooms, salt and parsley.

After he fried he added cream to make the sause with the mustard.

Previousely he cooked the potatoes, first a bit boiled and then baked in their jackets.

Boiled also the cawliflower and the green beans finely cut .

Et voilà.

I think better than this I can't explain.

Show and Tell Friday

I know most of us, in our Show and Tell Friday, show some beautiful objects that we have at our homes. Even so, when I was thinking on what should I show you this Friday, I had the idea of, instead, to show some of the good cooking my husband does.

He’s such a good cook that I’m always taking pictures.
So, in today’s Show and Tell, you will see some DH kitchen delights.

First, this wonderful piece of porc, roled and seasoned that he bought in his favorite butcher. He cooked it in the oven.


In the end, it tasted like ham. Very good indeed.

Look at that. Isn't it yammy?
On the other day, it was beef.


Here it is before it was sliced.


With two different kind of mushrooms.



The above one had a lot of garlic and was roasted in the oven.
It was so good, but I also liked the little ones.



And in the New Years Eve, in the night, we had lobster, a special treat he usualy buys in that day of the year.

A Day in My Life

Today is quite shiny.
Yesterday it rained quite a lot. My washing was all wet but today is drying.
As I woke up, I took from the washing machine more clothes to put on the line believing in the promess of a day full of sun. And it is. Sunny as it can be. And cold. Not the cold people are having in USA or even in UK, a more southern cold that makes shiver and wear gloves and carves.



Because of the dark days we had, my husband went to pick up some mimosas to bring some colour and “sun” inside the house.



Look at them, aren’t they nice?

Oh no, as I’m writing this the sun is going out again. Not that I don’t like a grey and rainy day, it’s just we are needing some sun.
That’s ok. It’s already afternoon and some more hours and we will have everybody at home, as the children come back from school.
But before I must go and do some shopping.



Today cooking won’t be a big deal because we will have yesterdays leftovers: lasagna, made by my husband.



The children like it so much that my husband always makes a lot.
And I like it too.

For A Day in My Life at Little Jenny Wren .