Supper on the Mini Max Big Green Egg

Dave cooked supper on the Mini Max Big Green Egg.

This is Dave's plate of hepherds pie with mustard pickles and ketchup.

Brownies for dessert.

Brownies with milk.

Cornbread muffins

I found the best moist cornbread recipe at http://mysweetmission.net/2015/08/buttermilk-cornbread-recipe.html.  I tried baking the cornbread muffins today.  My family & I loved how moist it was.  This recipe is definitely a keeper.

Here is how they looked on the inside of the muffin.

Home made pasta (lasagna noodles)

For Christmas, Dave & I bought ourselves a pasta machine.  Today we tried making lasagna noodles.

Lasagna noodles drying.

Dave baked the lasagna in his Big Green Egg, so it had a smokey flavour.

I cannot believe how delicious fresh pasta tastes.  It sure makes a difference, and it cooks faster. 

There was so much pasta left, I made fresh spaghetti for tomorrow.

Building a Garden Shed

Sorry it has been awhile since I blogged.  July was busy with outdoor projects (the painted chairs) and the beginning of August was building a garden shed.  The kit was bought from Costco and was extremely simple to build.  The hard work was building the base and drainage area to sit it on.

We bought 25 bags (28L each) of dirt to level the ground because our yard slopes.

This is the drainage area 22 bags (30L each) of 3/4' rocks.  We brought about 4 bags to the backyard at a time with the wheel barrow.

This photo shows the black floor of the shed sitting on top of the wooden base which is sitting on top of the drainage area. 

Then we built the shed.  It is a small shed (3 1/2'D x 7'W x 100"H), but it is perfect for storing garden tools and the lawnmower.

Dave & I have been on vacation since 5pm on August 7th.  We invited my mother-in-law to visit us for from New Brunswick.   This week we made mustard pickles (18 jars) and mustard beans (7 1/2 jars) which was Dave's grandmother's recipe.

Baking night

I didn't have time to stitch tonight.  I baked 2 dozen banana muffins, a banana square cake, and a round banana cinnamon cake.   This is all using my banana bread recipe but I added some cinnamon.