Elin's Garden

If, or rather WHEN I get the chance to have myself a big and beautiful garden, one of those that people can come and look at and maybe I'll sell a cucumber or two from a roadside stand, (yes, a girl can dream, can't she) I'd like to officially name it "Elin's Garden". I know, selfish huh? But it's not so much from my name, I would like to dedicate the garden to my great grandmother, who's name is also Elin, and who probably was somewhat of a reason why I got the name I got. She lived in the "city" most of the time but had a little summer cottage in the town where I grew up and I loved to go there and one of the reasons why was that she had herself a little garden. I guess it was Elin's Garden. She had the most amazing carrots. I don't know why this memory is so stuck in my head, but I think about it a lot when I'm in my garden, and it's of me and my brothers or maybe cousins, sitting in her garden picking very sweet, tiny and delicious carrots and taking them straight from the dirt and putting them right into our mouths. Yum! Anyways, I hope that I one day will have a garden that I can name "Elin's Garden". My great grandmother is still alive, she is getting very old and she has lost most of her hearing and sight, but I hope wherever she will be when I get my dream garden, that she'll smile and know she inspired me to have my very own little "Elin's Garden".

 

"A memory is a way of holding onto things you love, the things you are, and the things you never want to lose."

Dinner Swap!

My Swedish friend Ida suggested that we try to do a dinner swap today. Dinner swap you may ask? Well, we are four people participating so that means we have to cook for four people, me and Christian included. Like this: this morning I made four veggie pies. One for us and three for the rest of the participants. So today when we meet I'll be handing over one pie to each person and they are going to hand out something to me. So I'll be leaving bringing home dinners for three nights + the dinner I made. Confusing? A little, but I'm excited to not have to cook dinner every night of this week, instead all I have to do is put something in the oven to heat up. It is the first time I'm doing something like this but I'm excited to see what the other people have made. :)

As you know my dad sent me a bunch of Allers magazines the other day and that's where I found the recipe for the pie I made. I was a little nervous not knowing how it would turn out, but we had ours for lunch and it was AMAZING!! My hubby said we should make this pie once a week. That's a good sign! 

The pictures are out of order but you can see the recipe below. Try it!! 

Garden Progress

Today we payed a visit to our garden and things are growing nicely. We had to replant a few cucumber seeds when I believe we had a bird thief steel the last ones. Some of the seeds sported but some are no where in sight. Today was a beautiful day so it was a short but nice visit.

Our beets, who should be a winter/fall vegetable is just now getting ready to be picked. A week or two more and we can roast some fresh beets. Can't wait! 

This is our zucchini growing nicely.

Our potatoes are coming up! Can't wait for these to be ready, last year was such a success!

Yum for fresh peas right out of the pod.

I hope YOU are having a wonderful weekend!

Allers Saves The Day

One of my favorite things to do before
I go to sleep is to make crossword puzzles. I have yet to find an American one who's as good as Allers at home in Sweden. Allers is the absolute best! Not only the crossword puzzles are great, I find the content of the magazine to be quite a good read as well. I bet the average age of Allers readers is up there, but I'm proud to be an Allers reader. Thanks to my dad I now get Allers sent to my door throughout the year. :)

I Did It!

Crawfish Party!

It was quite a long time ago since I went to a craw fish party, but today I was lucky enough to take part in one. In Sweden we usually throw them in the fall but this one was a real Cajun, or Louisiana, style craw fish party and I believe they throw them whenever there?  Our friend grew up outside New Orleans and throws one of these parties once a year. Today was a beautiful day for it and I actually quite enjoyed the craw fish. I declined the sucking-the-juice-out part, but ate the meat.

Happy Easter!!

Just popping in to say "glad pask", or happy Easter! We're dog sitting this weekend to sweet Dylan. But now I'm about to head out to Ikea. Let's see if I can hold on to my money..