Beet salad with mandarin oranges

Beet salad with mandarin oranges

Mixed greens

Beets

Mandarin oranges

Red onion

Avocado 

Blue cheese or Goat cheese

Sliced almonds

Fresh cilantro or mint

Citrus dressing

Orange juice

Lemon juice

Honey

Dijon

Balsamic splash

Olive oil

Tomato pie

Tomato pie

Thickly cut 4 tomatoes

Lay on paper towel and sprinkle with salt for 45'

Crust

 1 1/2 C cheddar

3/4 C flour

Salt

Pulse together in cuisine art

Add

1/4 C butter 

1-2 T cream

Pulse

Press into fluted tart pan

Add 

5 slices crumbled bacon

Press into crust

Bake 350° for 20'

Filling

8 oz block cream cheese

Fresh basil

Fresh thyme

Garlic

Pepper

Spread over crust

Top with basil pesto

Add tomatoes

Bake 350° for 20'

wild life...

pruning 100s of roses in the mid 90s in shorts and bleeding profusely

admiring thistles that attack

fun colors shine on

feral cat

bear prints 

them...

Fig infused vodka cocktail

Fill a jar with figs

Pour vodka

Snap lid 

shake daily

Let rest 5 days

Turns a pale pink

~enjoy~

fig cocktail

2 oz fig vodka

T honey

Lemon wedge

Diet lemon lime soda

Fig garnish

Add the fig infused vodka to glass. Add the honey, squeeze of lemon wedge, stir and add ice. Top with lemon-lime flavored soda. Garnish with fig.

Strawberry basil salad

 Strawberry basil salad

Strawberries

Honey

Basil

Goat cheese

Greens

Thick Balsamic vinegar

Flakey salt

garden walk