What to serve with......

Alaska smoked salmon?

 

We always find some smoked salmon around the holidays.

Open the box and here is the package.....

Open the packaged salmon and place in a pan with fresh dill weed. It will warm on the back of the stove, while everything else cooks.

Mushroom soup, using a recipe called "Hungarian Mushroom Soup"....

Sliced cucumbers marinated in Hendrickson's Original salad dressing.

 

Potatoes sliced and ready to bake with herbs and butter.....

It was delicious, and the favors seemed to compliment each other!

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While enjoying our feast, we watched these 2 DVDs of delightful movies which predated the Doc Martin TV series. From our wonderful local library!

 

I am enjoying being home this morning! June 21st, the summer solstice.
I treated myself to some quiet time in my garden retreat.... just outside the studio door. This is a place of cool breezes and birds visiting. I wrote in my journal, read about Manet's still-life paintings and enjoyed a cup of coffee. [There is definitely a nice side to loosing one's day job!]


My silent companion, now twice mended, a little praying angel stands above an ornamental sweet potatoe vine.

Across the yard, in the sunshine of a layered vegetable garden, things are growing nicely. Small cucumbers growing almost before my eyes!

My first year to grow cherry tomatoes. They look so cute all lined up on the vine!

An heirloom variety, Anais noir, (or pineapple) tomato has grown a great deal while I was gone!

We are having hot summer weather now, I don't expect to have leaf lettuce much longer but was able to fill my salad spinner with enough for a large salad tonight!