Well hello Monday!
Last week started off with a date day trip to the Portland Head Light, the LL Bean Home Store and lunch at a restaurant called the Owl and Elm Pub. We saw their ad for a hamburger in Maine Magazine and photo looked so good, we just had to try it. And WHAT A WINNER!!! We were still talking about our meal 3 days later. I’m not sure if that’s a sign that we’re getting old, or that is truly was delicious and we just could stop talking about it. 😉
Butternut Squash and Quinoa Salad with frozen spinach. Note to self: buy more butternut squash. I’ve been craving the Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna dish lately.
Homemade chicken soup.
Homemade tomato soup. OH MY GOODNESS, this was a new recipe and it was so good I had 3 BOWLS the first go around. I had to freeze the rest so I wouldn’t eat the entire batch within a 24 hour period. I’ll post the recipe soon because if you are a lover of tomato soup you are going to want to make it.
Pumpkin cheese coffee cake {I’ll share the recipe tomorrow}.
Alaska Airlines First Class Flight Boston to Seattle Cost $5.60 + 40,000 frequent flyer points {each way}.
Food consumed on 6+ hour flight: 4 cups of tea, 2 waters, 1 orange juice, Greek yogurt {gag} with granola, nutty cinnamon dried fruit bun with butter and cranberry chutney {delicious}.
Followed by a delicious creamy potato pancake {?} stuffed omelette and Canadian bacon. There was also a Theo dark mint chocolate bar towards the end of the flight.
That was breakfast.
Here’s what lunch looked like on the very same day.
And then dinner.
Breakfast the next day at The Net Shed.
And then linner.
With the parental unit.
Breakfast the next morning was tea and sweet bread and a handful of chocolate covered cherries. Linner was a full on mock Thanksgiving feast with roast turkey, cherry cola jell-o salad, Amberlina’s sweet potato casserole, home-style scalloped potatoes, corn, baked pineapple, biscuits and Costco pumpkin pie and ice cream for dessert.
The title of this post should have been Woman Eats Enough Food for an Entire Week in Less Than 48 Hours.
Food+ Friends + Family = Automatic weight gain of 10 pounds.
Peace Out Girl Scouts, I need a nap. I’ll see you back here tomorrow.
Have an awesome Monday everyone.
~Mavis
- Total Spent on Groceries in November $147.11
- Total Spent on Groceries in October $218.59
- Total Spent on Groceries in September $249.15
- Total Spent on Groceries in August $253.38
- Total Spent on Groceries in July $300.74
- Total Spent on Groceries in June $259.12
- Total Spent on Groceries in May $262.39 {More meat!}
- Total Spent on Groceries in April $284.56 {My husband bought a smoker and a BUNCH of meat!}
- Total Spent on Groceries in March $321.69
- Total Spent on Groceries in February $220.92
- Total Spent in January on Groceries $41.19
- Total Spent So Far on Groceries in 2019 $2569.84
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Molly Jo says
your food pictures are awesome! no matter what it is in the pic, makes my mouth water! Looks like a wonderful full and fun week!
Cecile says
Okay Mavis, let’s get something straight, that on-flight breakfast with Canadian bacon? That is NOT Canadian bacon, unless of course they sourced it from Canada! lol Canadian bacon is peameal bacon or back bacon (cured pork loin rolled in cornmeal giving it the peameal name). It is much leaner than typical side bacon and gives you much more protein than regular bacon. They each play their own part in a Canadian breakfast, side bacon goes with pancakes, waffles and pretty much anything else you would want to eat ever, the fat content is offset by the sweet maple syrup or fruit syrups! Because Canadian bacon doesn’t have the fat content it is best served with eggs, omelettes, and more savory breakfasts or even on a bun with Octoberfest mustard or even cooked whole as a roast on the bbq! Love your blog and can’t wait to try the pineapple custard! We are doing a picnic shoulder for Christmas this year and I think it would be perfect to go along with it!
Mrs Hillbilly says
What a great whirlwind visit Ms Mavis !!!! Miss you soooooooo much !!
Honeybee says
Thank you Mavis and Mrs Hillbilly, several years ago you posted about a walk in Gig Harbor and breakfast at the Net Shed. It has become a favorite spot for my HH and I when ever we cross the bridge.
Honeybee
nancy W says
I love the Net Shed, try to eat there whenever I visit my daughter! Looks like you had a fun visit!