my youngest daughter made a really good shortbread cookie (she turned the round shortbread into a cookie)
http://bernadettesgranddaughter.blogspot.com
if anyone wants the recipe instead of going on martha stewart's website i would be happy to give it to you.
Yesterday I made the challenge of the week, it was a little too froophy for me but it was good but it did help me learn so that's always a good thing.
today is meal plan day. done

tonight wedding soup, Alsatian egg pancake thing do from my youth Eirekuche
monday: no meat monday
tuesday out for dinner - get d br in law some italian cookies for his birthday
wednesday:
thursday:
Friday: dd is coming home
Saturday:
Sunday:
Goals for dinners and try its this week:
1. Alsatian onion pie (like a pizza with onions), my mom's salad dijon vinaigrette - was delicious dh even liked it
2. soups for the week (we make one or two a week): Wedding soup and Chicken dumpling soup
3. Meatballs in spicy beef stock sauce with mashed potatoes
4 meringue with vanilla ice cream, raspberry sauce for company
5. lentil salad for lunch
6. I have left over bacon... fusilli (a curly pasta) with onions, bacon and mushrooms decided against this as we have had bacon already this week
7. I still have grapefruit and avocados so another salad
8. egg prosciutto filled french bread recipe for Sunday morning
9. carrot salad -my mothers and grandmothers
10 cucumber salad with dill
I am working on trying all the pie crust recipes slowly of course so that I can narrow them down to our favorites
trying to invent an appetizer recipe
also trying different salad dressings
I have asparagus, zucchini, carrots,
thyme, dill, basil to use up