Nettle tea and pie

Since I'm concerned about my iron intake, and my iron pills have been swapped for a multivitamin, I am making nettle tea in the French press.

Breakfast will be nettle tea with local honey and a slice of sweet potato crunch pie from the Pocono Cheesecake Factory and a few almonds.

Picnic leftovers

We're still in the grip of a heat wave. So the menu includes lots of leftovers from my mother-in-law's Fourth of July picnic.

We started the morning with a breakfast of fresh cantaloupe, Morningstar vegetarian breakfast patties and Grammy's Blueberry Crumb pie.

She also made an ice cream cake with fudge, Oreos, and malted milk balls. Nicely decadent.

I also did some weeding in the garden (some things have gone insane since we left on our DC trip).

And started organic green tea brewing in the sun with a big clump of my garden mint.

Update on all things

If you look at this blog on even a quasi-regular basis, it looks like I feel off the planet this weekend.

It was the annual fundraiser, our annual bookfair, for the Mary Meuser Memorial Library, a public library where I currently serve as president of the board of trustees. That did not leave much time for cooking, especially since I worked both days as well as volunteered six hours each day and helped with set-up on Friday afternoon.

Yesterday was husband's birthday, so I splurged. I spent $12 on him at Target and got him Breyers Blasts Reese's Penaut Butter Cup ice cream, New England Coffee French Vanilla and for lunch today a personal pan pizza (I made the dough last night and our new Mary topped the pizzas today.

His mom brought us a pumpkin custard pie, so that was breakfast.

And today I went to the dentist and got my bottom left far rear molar repaired and tooth #3 on the top right so now it seems I can masticate again!