Family, Fun, & Food

Wednesday is a family dinner night.  The grandchildren enjoy play time at Grandma and Grandpa's.  We read, go for walks, do projects, and play outside.  Tonight's dinner was foil dinners and s'mores.  Dining alfresco and roasting marshmallows made for a wonderful evening.  

 

 

 Spencer and his parents have chicken.  For my birthday they gave me 'art'isan eggs. 

 

 

"I always get the table ready long before the guests arrive, because once I get involved with cooking I won't want to be bothered, and also because I want people to arrive and see the table ready and think, 'They were expecting me!' " - Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food, page 38.

 

Morgan and Spencer's fancy napkin folds.

 

 

Kathy hosted a delightful baby shower for Morgan in March. 

Food and games were story book themed.

 

For Mother's day I requested breakfast on the back porch. 

The Menu - Eggs on toasted buns smothered in sausage gravy, Hash browns, Cantaloupe and Grapefruit juice.  After a few bites Randy said, "This is why we seldom go out to eat, you can't get food this good at a restaurant."  He was right!

 

 

"No chef on earth can prepare a meal as tasty as

the one you make for yourself in your own kitchen"

 George Orwell from Down and Out in Paris and London

Arizona's Treasure

 

It's time to play catch up!  My Spring break treat was a trip to Phoenix and visit with Mother. I had been reading books about Arizona, including one title Counting Arizona's Treasures. Several of the books that I read mentioned the Heard Museum as one of the treasures, which it is.  But the real treasure is my mother!  We had a great time together looking through family photos, attending the Temple (another treasure) and having meals together. 



We went to The Gilbert House. A restaurant housed in a 1928 Sears-Roebuck Craftsman home.  This old tractor display is part of the Farm House Village where the restaurant is located.

 

 

The Heard Museum is a wonderful place.  Plan to spend the day when you go.  We saw a temporary display about the World War II Indian Code Talkers.  I just happened to be reading Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac at the time. Thanks to Bob we were able to visit with descendants of  Navajo and Hopi Code Talkers.  

 

 

We had dinner at The Fry Bread House.  This award winning restaurant was started by a Native American women about 20 years ago to earn money to put her children through school. 

 

We had fry bread tacos. It is the lightest fry bread that I have ever eaten.