Hot is not a weather situation here, so I had to look elsewhere for this week’s theme for Through the Lens Thursday hosted by Writing Wishing and GFunkified.
When I was buying the cauliflower yesterday, I spotted these bright fabulous chili peppers. Hot. Check.
Today I am linking up with Heike to have a little chat as part of her ‘But it Tasted Good’ series. I picked on the cauliflower to see how it tastes good and what else we can do with it!
Cauliflower is an ace vegetable, it looks cool and to think of all the things you can do with one.
Cauliflower and cheese. Always a good dish, with slightly crunchy steamed cauli and a lovely cheese sauce made with flour and butter and milk and cheese. Extra cheese on the top with a few sliced almonds and a good toast to get the top all crunchy. This is definitely going to taste good.
Raw with dips. I like the sound of raw crunchy white mini trees to dip in some home made salsa or a yoghurt dip, but raw cauliflower really isn’t often a good option for me. I don’t dislike it, but I think it dislikes me as it gives me a stomach ache. So even though it tastes good, we can’t be veggie dip friends, sorry raw cauli.
Roasted cauliflower. This is the best best best way to cook cauliflower in the whole wide world. It is. Really it is. I just chop up the white crunchy wonder and drizzle over some oil and plenty of salt. Then roast covered for about 20 mins then remove the lid/foil and roast for another 20 mins until it is as soft and cooked as you like it. Keep testing it or you will end up with squishy cauliflower which will only be good for a salty cauli smoothie. Roasted cauliflower will always taste good!
So what else can we do with our cauliflower I hear you cry. Well, I am glad you asked, I have a few ideas.
Cut a floret in half and make a mini tree stamp. Stamp a forest and add your own animals. Got any animal stickers? Add them too. Use a pen to add owl holes in your trees, don’t forget the owl too.
Write the word cauliflower, it is such a cool word, let’s brush script it!
Draw around the whole cauli or split it off into florets and draw around them.
You can draw the whole thing. Are you a talented artist? Paint a picture of it.
Make a necklace of a pretty floret. A mini pale tree pendant, just for you. A nibble if you get hungry too. Bonus.
Look what the cauliflower did with itself, turned into a romancesco cauliflower and wins top prize for being pretty and tasty.
Right now, the cauli is cooking away in a curry with some butternut squash and chickpeas.
……it tasted good!
Last week was a little warmer and then little colder, and then it snowed…again. I had a root canal on Wednesday which instead of being the nightmare I was expecting, dispelled all of the tooth pain I have been having. Now I just need to drink lots of water to cleanse my pain killer abused liver.
I made two bracelets of similar beads and the pictures above are of one of them. I ordered some new beads and I am super excited to get them, I nearly bounce out the door to greet the mail lady when I am expecting beads in the post! Will they come today? I wonder.
The colour of the week was orange which was another hard one to find, check out Andrea and Xanthe‘s blogs for some fab colour inspirations.
Suddenly every traffic cone everywhere I go pops into my vision! No, I did not take a photo of a cone…
I did find a cool old truck which is parked locally, so I stalked it and got a couple of photos.
The flower is actually pink, but it turned orange in front of the sun.
In the snow yesterday we ventured out to a couple of local antique malls, Green Shag Antiques and Quintessential Antiques and I spotted lots of orange. I bought the bracelet, but left the rest.
The top photo is from Saturday when we caught the first yard sale of the season. Mr Y picked a giant car (!) and I got a bag of beaded jewellery to chop up and upcycle into some other jewels. On the way home, we spotted this vintage Samsonite travel case by the side of the road. We checked inside to make sure there were no body parts or money or diamonds (none of the above found) and rescued it. It is a lovely marbled green colour with white fabric lining inside. What a score! Just shows, always keep your eyes open, you never know what treasure is waiting to be rescued.
The rest of the photos are from in and around the antique shops we visited, I cracked up at the crazy squirrel!
The aqua building is one I have admired for ages, but it is on a busy road, so not easy to get a photo of. The shops were just across the road and the snow made it very quiet, so not much traffic. I skipped across the road and got some photos of Ace Metals!
These watch faces were very cool, but I am not sure how I would use them.
The blue plate was a beauty and I would love a whole crockery set of mismatched vintage pieces, although this one is a bit too crackled to actually use I think. Pretty though.
Marbles, marbles and more marbles, I like how these were packed up with a hand written label. The boys chose a pack of marbles each, but I managed to resist.
A giant box of vintage blocks, so cool, but you would have to buy the whole lot!
I hope you had a lovely week and are looking forward to this one. We have a snow day today, so we are all inside hiding from the cold.
First yard sale of the year this morning, we got the giant car and some beads to hack up, wash and recycle.
This amazing vintage suitcase was literally sitting on the verge and apparently had been there for a week, we checked there was nothing weird inside and claimed it as our own. After all we are supposed to get some exciting weather with snow and ice and rain and snow and ice, so, it would get ruined if it was left outside.
Share your Six Word Saturday in the comments or over on Instagram #sixwordsaturday.
There goes February, a short month and a chilly one too, we had snow and ice and rain and sunshine. Hopefully March will bring Spring out from hiding behind Winter. Come on out Spring, we are all friendly and can’t wait to see you!
Here are my daily photo offerings for February, I follow the prompts supplied by lovely Chantelle at Fat Mum Slim.
1. You. Circa 1984, in a homemade and dyed dress.
2. Favourite. Finding old beads and charms to make into something.
3. Something Orange
4. Childhood
5.Square
6. C is for ….meow
7. Utensil
8. Water
9. Details.
10. I am….
11. Mistake. Walking on that ice would be.
12. Out + About. Detail of a local bridge.
13. Perfect. The perfect Valentine’s haul from school.
14. Heart
15. My drink of choice. Homemade frothy coffee.
16. Create
17. Vegetable. Pom pom carrot!
18. Magic. First flower on the Rosemary.
19. Feet
20. Peace
21. Funny. This guy.
22. An act of Kindness
23. This where I relax
24. Half
25. Cut
26. Light
27. My View Today
28. Reflection
Which do I like best? I like ‘Light’ and ‘Cut’ best and ‘Reflection’ makes me smile as we snapped it yesterday while we were out and about!
March starts today, let’s get observing and capturing those great photos every day. I nearly always use my iPhone for photo-a-day shots as I always have it with me and I can quickly get a picture when I see something like the reflection in ‘Peace’ or the heart shaped leaf in ‘Act of Kindness’.
Have a great weekend. Six Word Saturday is coming up!
This week’s theme for Through the Lens Thursday is ‘Hands’.
Not an easy one to be honest as the only hands I have here are mine (apart from toy hands I suppose). So, out comes the tripod and some trial and error with the self timer!
I snapped this one, then cropped and black and whited it in Snapseed on the iPad. I like to look at my photos on the iPad as the screen is nice and big and I can see what is in focus or not and I can play with apps on there too. I know, I need to practice Photoshop, it is on my list!
I took this photo on the porch in the freezing cold, with the timer set to take seven continuous photos in the hope I would get one. I took a few groups of seven and got one in the end!
The bracelets and necklace in my hands are new at CatsEatDogs and I love them for spring and summer. Layered up your wrists, they add colour and texture to any outfit. I am also holding a string of wood beads, I intend using lots of lovely wood in necklaces and bracelets this season.
Purple was the colour of the week last week in the #colorcolour project thanks to the great minds of Hula Seventy and Xanthe Berkeley. It is amazing what you spot when you are looking out for a specific colour. I though I would find nothing at all purple, even though I walk past the purple wall at the YMCA nearly every day! Purple flowers were in my Valentine’s bunch and I love violet sweeties.
I took the photos of Pablo with my Canon and I like the way they have captured him, especially when he kicks up the ground behind him like he is ready to race!
I started a granny square using Pip’s beginner video (still not finished it, but I will and I will be sure to share my crochet triumph!)
Mr Y and I went out with the metal detector into the deepest woods yesterday looking for treasure. We found some old rusty nails, a couple of bottle caps and some bugs hiding from the cold. Better luck next time! I am including this last photo as part of the Living Arrows project which is hosted by I Heart Snapping to celebrate our kids and all they get up to!
Today was warm enough to give the soil in this raised bed a little dig over. In the Spring, I plan to fill it up with lavender, our own mini lavender farm!
Happy Weekend.
I have been looking around at some marvellous stuff this week, take a look-
I am writing the weekly grocery list and looking here for meal ideas.
Read anything good lately? I have just finished this and want to read this .
Do you watch lots of TV or just a bit? I am liking these guys, they crack me up and this was rather interesting and a bit of a shame.
A weekend photo project, sounds fun.
I want to go here and collect shells and walk on that beach.
This recipe looks yums, rice and lentils aplenty.
I almost gasped at the yellow field photo in this gorgeous portrait taking guide, it is so ace and there are some good tips too.
I am trying trying and trying to learn crochet, so I have sought help here
I want to wear this dress in the Spring with ballet flats (not loving their styling with socks and shoes to be honest) and a freshly made frothy coffee in hand.
And in my snow free garden, this fella went exploring and checked on the new grass growth!
Have a fab weekend and see you tomorrow for Six Word Saturday.
This week’s theme thought up by the fab ladies behind Through the Lens Thursday is ‘Window’, so here is one of mine.
We have some very cool stained glass windows in our house and the sun gleams in through them creating lots of lovely colours and effects.
I took some photos and edited them, then looked up and saw the sun highlighting the central blue and greens, so I snapped a few more and ended up with this photo.
The glass colour and the sunshine work together to develop a sunset effect which is lovely and changes every few minutes while the sun is peeking through.
Clare Davis Etheridge 