The other day in a late afternoon, what-do-we-do-now moment, I left some cut up cabbage and potatoes in the steamer and dragged Trevor down to Karen Mayo's for some wine-drinking, garden-admiring, and grape-foraging. Her garden is the best! When we got home after a couple hours, Todd had returned home from work and pulled lots of weeds and there was an amazing dinner that went beyond just the paltry potatoes and cabbage. He even fired up the grill to cook some zucchini! Kind of makes me think I ought to drink more...
Karen gave us a bunch of ears of corn and the idea to make corn fritters. We made some the next evening and ate them with honey mustard. That was after I donated my blood (that's right, be nice to me, I gave blood) for the last time ever in my life. I will give up my kidney or anything else, but my veins were not created to give blood. I was sitting there for 20 minutes while the phlebotomist jiggled the needle around as my blood dripped out. The worst part was that I was the last donor of the day and the red cross workers just wanted me gone. To their credit, they were very nice and gave me a bunch of snacks to take with me, cheezits and oreos and such.
If anyone has a favorite recipe for corn fritters, let me know what it is! I still have corn left and, while the ones I made were good, it seemed like they could have been better.
Along the same lines (food as usual), Tonya gave us a ride down to root for our insane ultra-running husbands (oh, only a short run of 31 miles) doing the Mckenzie River Trail Run and we stopped at the Mennonite bakery on Peoria road. Holy Maple Bar. We have a new Friday morning eating activity. Don't tell anyone else about the place or there may be too much competition for the donuts.
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Hey, I'm still thinking about those maple bars!!! It was fun riding down with you on Saturday. It was nice to have such great company. I want you to know that I think Trevor is a total angel baby. What a sweet and go-with-the-flow kind of guy! :)
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