Sometimes you just feel like a nice dinner at home. Last night Paul and I decided to work together to provide supper and clean up afterward. It's much more enjoyable when you work together. And we're starting to get good at it. It takes awhile at first to get used to someone else working in your kitchen. You want them to do things your way. But I do have an added benefit. Paul was a bachelor until he was twenty-eight. He knows his way around a kitchen and, in fact, is an excellent cook in his own right. I just have to learn to keep myself busy and hold my tongue. He did just fine...as always.

Our menu last night evolved from Carrot Thyme Soup to include whole wheat biscuits, Nuts and Sprouts Salad and the leftover Blueberry Flan from Friday night. I actually managed to snap a photo for everyone before we sat down to eat. Paul was laughing at me. I seem to post a lot of dessert photos, but no actual meals!



It doesn't take much to create a beautiful meal at home. Paul and I decided the only down side to this is the clean up afterward. And even that isn't so bad when you have help. The meal definitely beat anything we could have bought in a restaurant though, and for a fraction of the price.

The liquid in the glasses is not wine. It is black cherry juice with club soda. Okay... but not a mix I'd try again. Maybe if I'd used concentrated black cherry juice it would have tasted better. This was a bit weird...but no more so than wine, which we are trying to find replacement for. We just don't want copious amounts of sugar to replace the wine. We're looking for a fairly healthy drink.

Nuts and Sprouts Salad



This is a remake of a salad I had at restaurant in Halifax once some 25 years ago. My friend and I dissected the salad ingredients with a fine tooth comb and wrote the list on a napkin to replicate at home later. It was a success!

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