little bit of this, a little bit of that

First of all, I have to thank all of you that visited and left comments. What a great way to have people stop by. You tell them about your day, it's short and sweet (well, most of the time) and heck, you don't even have to clean the house before they get here.

Either later tonight or tomorrow, I'm going to update my list of blogs. If I miss yours and want it to be included, just leave me a note about it and I will add you.

Oh, and if you dropped by today, don't be shy!! Say hello! :-)

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The weather here has been really very erratic. Huge extremes of temperatures means one day you have the neighbor kids screaming and having fun in their pool, and the next morning it's so darn cold, there are tiny snowflakes falling from the sky. We've had over 32 (that's 90F) and then -1 (31F)! What's up with that?

It was cold and rainy and I just didn't want to go out at all during the weekend. On Sunday I started having a craving for black licorice and the weather was just so awful, I didn't go out and get any. I thought that would be the end of it, but then on Monday, I still had the craving... but the weather was again cold and wet. Well, today, I just couldn't stand it any more. The weather has started to warm up a bit and I decided I couldn't live without them anymore and went to the store to get some. I bought a huge bag and well, I'm munching on some right now. I just love them.

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I took a few pics in my garden today... and I know everyone has their fill of flowers and are tired of seeing them, but I just had to show you at least one of my irises. They only last a few days and then are gone for the rest of the summer. I do love their sweeping, swaying leaves though... as they bend and dance in the wind, flowers or no.. they are still pretty.

Siberian Iris:


Tonight for supper I had a something my boyfriend showed me how to make and I just love it so much, I have it at least once a week since. I thought I'd share it with you.

He calls it kebab, but it's nothing like shish-kebab... and I had never eaten it before. It's tender curried meat, with either crème-fraîche, or sour cream if you can't find that. You add curry spices, mayonnaise and lemon juice to your sauce and then mix that with a bunch of thinly sliced veggies.. I normally use thinly sliced lettuce (ice-berg for the crunchiness)red peppers, cucumber, green onion, tomatoes and then some marinated banana peppers that are cut up in tiny slices. Different kinds of hot peppers can be used but these are available where I live so I use them. They also come with red, orange and yellow ones in the same jar, which makes them very pretty in the dish. You mix these veggies with your sauce.

You take either porc or chicken, I guess you could also make them meatless, but I like the meat. You heat up some curry spices and add garlic and your meat. Takes only a minute or two to fry as you have cut your meat into really very small tender pieces.

Now, he and I make these differently, he makes his own tortilla bread. I guess I'm lazy, cause I just use the ones from the grocery store. He also makes them on his stove, and I make them in a George Forman grill. It just happens to be the perfect size.

I put a tiny bit of butter on the outside of the tortilla so that it doesn't burn and it gets those really nice golden grill marks. I then flip it.. put a bit of meat, the veggies and sauce mixture and then fold the sides in and roll it.. put it in the grill for only about 2 minutes and TADA!! instant amazingly tasty and spicy food. Yum.

You have to try these ... they are just SO good! :-)