Good 52º sunny morning. Heading for 'hot' today....
Yesterday morning looked like this... but no rain.
Yesterday we had a little gathering for PJ's birthday...
L-R Dave, Pam, Mike, Tom, me, Debbie, PJ.
Pat C and Tim showed up later... they had been river rafting. Good thing we had food left!!!
Pat C and Tim showed up later... they had been river rafting. Good thing we had food left!!!
Good food. Dave barbecued ribs, PJ made coleslaw (yummmy!), Mike brought
some outrageously good strawberries and blackberries, I made a pasta and a
potato salad, Pam made cheesecake, Tom made pumpkin and lemon pies. Oink oink
oink.....
Re the pasta salad.... I got this recipe from Beth at Budget Bytes (www.budgetbytes.blogspot.com).
She served hers hot, I served mine cold. Really good. A big hit!
This is neat, because I have always roasted garlic in the oven. In the
summer it's nice to not have to turn on the oven and you can roast the garlic
right in your microwave! Yeah!
First cut the top off two heads of garlic... put in a microwave safe dish,
drizzle with olive oil, put microwave safe top on and cook on high for 1 minute.
Check. Cook 30 sec longer. Check. Mine cooked in 1 min 30 sec. Some are good at
1 minute. Some 2 minutes. Sometimes the cloves jump out...
Be careful, cooking too long and not checking it may lead to burned garlic.
YUCK.
Remove garlic from heads and chop, add to that some salt, black cracked
pepper, and 15 oz of ricotta cheese....
Cook the pasta in boiling salted water (I also added Sonoma pepper and
Chile con Limon). When pasta is done, drain .. reserving 1/2 cup of the starchy
cooking water, and cool the pasta with cold water, drain. Add the cooking water
to the ricotta mixture and with a whisk stir until smooth. In a large bowl add
the pasta, some baby spinach, shredded Parmesan cheese, halved grape
tomatoes,....
Stir in the ricotta mixture and refrigerate until serving time.
This would also be good with added bell pepper and/or celery and maybe some
peeled cold cooked shrimp!
Historically this date...
.... no wonder the steam engine cartoon was named Thomas!
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau
shoots and fatally wounds U.S.
President James Garfield, who
eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and
navigator Fred Noonan are last heard
from over the Pacific Ocean while
attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
And births this date include...
All I know. Bill paying day! Happy Monday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
July 2nd
World UFO Day
