It's been a busy week (can you believe it's already week 32 of the year?) so I thought I'd give you a little 'week in review' recap and some random chitchat about the happenings at 'camp' last week.
Posts you might have missed ~
8/5: creamy cucumber salad (my mouth is watering just thinking about it)
8/6: fixed a bracelet and showed how to use crimp beads
8/7: kitchen tip - how I freeze cookie dough
8/8: Mary's cucumber and smoked salmon appetizer
8/9: made Sarge a dog necklace so he can wear his cute new tag
8/10: making square knots for macrame
8/11: boozy bears - vodka soaked gummy candy
What's cooking ~
- grilled chicken, mozzarella, and spinach brats with grilled zucchini (slice and put in a foil packet with a little olive oil, salt, and pepper - throw on the grill until cooked, we did about 20 minutes and it could have gone longer)
- grilled swordfish tacos (brush the swordfish with a little lemon butter while grilling, serve it with toppings of your choice - we do coleslaw - and warmed corn tortillas)
- grilled pork tenderloin with black bean/corn/tomato/avocado salad
- grilled halibut (last time Dave grilled halibut it broke up all over his grill and he was unhappy, this time we used a grill basket sprayed with non-stick cooking spray) with cauliflower rice and mixed veggies
- grilled steak with mushrooms, roasted asparagus, and iceberg wedge salad
- bbq ribs with homemade coleslaw
- grilled chicken breasts (we've been buying thin cut breasts, regular chicken breasts are so huge lately and they take forever to cook!) with butternut squash risotto (found in the freezer section) and a mix of asparagus, green beans, and tomatoes (beans and tomatoes were first pickings from the garden - yum)
Miscellaneous stuff keeping me busy but not interesting enough for an entire post ~
- the garden is doing SO good I had to spend some time staking the tomatoes and green beans - the tomatoes have so much fruit on them they are falling over and I'm worried the stems are going to break from the weight. Lucy the parrot was so happy to get the first beans of the season, and Sarge comes out with me every morning to "check the 'maters".
- we spent the first part of the week camping up north and learned this cool trick from our campground neighbors (an actual campground, not the blogs pretend campground LOL) - while floating on the lake the current and waves kept pushing us into shore, but the neighbors were staying in place. Of course I asked how the heck they were doing that and she showed me her trick (maybe this is a wildly common trick but new to me!), they screw one of those dog stake things into the lake bottom and attach bungies to it and then to their float. Genius. I found the dog screw at Walmart along with 2 inexpensive 5' dog leashes, ran the end thru the float handle and thru the handhold loop of the leash, then clipped to the dog stake - no more floating away!
- started "common sense" dieting (pretty much just what it sounds like - eating more of what I know I'm supposed to eat and less of what I shouldn't. Lost a couple pounds and then found them again after eating a gluttonous lunch at The Cheesecake Factory while back-to- school shopping with my niece!
- read 2 books while camping - Still Me (book 3 by Jojo Moyes - The other two are Me before You, and After You - good books!), and Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson (she has a whole series of these about Goldy, a food caterer who solves mysteries, and she includes recipes. Sort of the perfect book format hahaha). Both were light easy summer reads that I enjoyed.
- made two stretchy bead bracelets, and worked on a project that I'll show you next week. It's a surprise for my sister's birthday tomorrow so I can't tell you yet!
Ok, enough rambling. Hope you have a great week, are inspired by what's coming up at blog 'camp', and find time to make something!
Sincerely,
Your camp counselor - Jill :)
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