Cooking in the Camper

Good Evening Internet Friends.

We are currently at the first campground of our vacation.  My son woke up telling me there were Saskatoon berries outside his window.  Behold!   There was.  Over the past 2 days I have picked 2 ice cream pails of Saskatoon berries!  As of this evening they are all washed and packed 1 cup portions in the freezer.

We have also had Saskatoon berry pancakes for the past 2 mornings:

Before we left the farm with the trailer I raided the garden:

Zucchini, purple mustard, lettuce, beet leaves and green onions.   I have been on a purple mustard kick thus summer and so for dinner tonight we had a salad with all these leaves and some tomato and cucumber :

Yummy.

Finally.....this afternoon I decided to use up the last if the beet leaves by making beet leaf buns.  It took some adjustments to figure out how the oven in the trailer works but as of this evening I have managed to bake beet leaf buns in trailer!

Tomorrow morning we will be packing up and heading off to other fun.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

I'm Turning into My Grandmother!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Okay, so everyone worries about turning into their mother.  I don't have a lot of those moments, but I am becoming like my Grandmother.

This morning kiddo and I slept in until 1000 hours (something my Grammy would do).  After a breakfast of pancakes we headed in to Ponoka to attend the Farmer's Market.

I was able to pick up from my friend Lynn a set of lawn dice her husband made:

After a visit kiddo and I went for lunch and since it was still early in the day I decided that we would road trip to Country Quilting and More as I wanted their quilt block for the 2016 Row by Row Experience.  I am one of those people that does not swap blocks for places I have not traveled to and or have not traveled to this year as I make these blocks as a souvenir of my summer travels ☺

Heading back to the farm there was a storm starting so we quickly packed up and headed home.  I was about 4 miles away from the farm when the rain started which was a good thing because I was driving the Focus and although I joke about off roading with it.....I'm not sure how well it would make out. 

Now here is where being like my Grammy really kicks in....at 2230 hours this evening I decided to make Saskatoon berry scones and that is just what I did.  If Grammy did bake it was usually after evening shift...

TAH DAH.....and yes I ate half of one just to make sure it was tasty.....I assure you it was and the other half has since been eaten as well.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

The Do Nothing Day

Good Evening Internet Friends.

Yesterday afternoon I loaded up the car of kid and dogs and headed out to the farm for a few sleeps away from the city.

Arriving here I discovered the big propane tank was empty.  Since hubby is away at work that meant I had to figure out how to switch over from the large tank to the normal sized tanks.   Thankfully my years of PICU nursing came in handy with figuring out flow valves.   No explosions.  No leaks.  We're cooking and showering with warm water now thanks to gas.  YAY.

Today our plan was to go no where and do nothing if we did not want to.

The garden was not too full of  weeds on arrival last night so I spent a couple of hours this afternoon and thoroughly weeded it including figuring out how to use the gas mower to trim the grass around the garden.

Then my son and I decided to go Saskatoon berry picking.  We got about 6 cups of berries bur there are lots more yet to ripen so we will be raiding the bushes again:

After dinner I finished my June subscription of Yarn Crush.   I have not been keen on the past three months of this subscription but this month's one was at least quick to do and I knew I would feel better if I simply finished it.  So:

It's a knitted fruit bag.  I will take it to the Ponoka Farmer's Market tomorrow and see how many strange looks I can get!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy