Feeling fall-ish.

Yes...

they're coming!

;-)

Standard Fare

Thyme Polenta with Butter Grilled Chivey Shrimp, Garden Fresh Petite Stuffed Tomato, and Ginger Curd and Butter Gourmet Baby Carrots (compliments of the Sheboygan, WI farmer's market, 2016)  

Oh my! This is 'standard dinner fare' around here! 

We visited the Sheboygan (WI) farmer's market this weekend 

and were delighted to find row after row of fresh vegetables and many flowers 

to choose from, as well...

We procured these delightful tiny gourmet colored carrots there for this dish. 

I apologize for the (kind of light) photograph as it was taken with a flash 

after daylight hours! I was desperate to photograph it and used what 

little light I had! I'm hoping the vivid colors, textures and my kind 

of 'gleaming surfaces...' will suffice to entice your taste palate 

and fuel your culinary passions! 

Eat with your eyes! Eat to enjoy!

                                           Lake Michigan, Sheboygan, WI 2016

lg

:-)

Yay me!!!

If you look on the side, I 'got' my "Followers" list 

and their corresponding 'Favicons'

BACK.

("Why, Hello!!" ;-) ) 

For months and months (...when I started this blog anew from Milwaukee, WI) 

I could not get this mysterious list to reappear! 

(Copy-paste-copy-paste-error message!!!) 

Celebrating you.

lg!
:-)

As promised....

Color, color, color!!!!! 

...some 2016 fall garden produce. 

(from...

Milwaukee, Wisconsin!)

lg :-)

I (always) come up against it...

        this mountain.

Ridiculous.

 Tonight's fare: Rare Cedarburg,WI jalapeño cheddar brat paired with a specially made bun and vegetable paella (short grain rice dish.)

Vegetable paella made in a (large) cast iron skillet; Paella recipe (we made a purely vegetable variation) found on page 9 of art culinaire; fall issue; volume 70.

Rare siting: A 12 inch Cedarburg, WI jalapeño cheddar brat browned in a pan with Black Boss Porter (by way of Poland.)  

(...I like gleaming surfaces.) 

My kind.

lg :-)

Garden gone...

 Overhead shot today!

6 foot + tall tomato plants! Not ready yet...

Hidden Kuri Squash everywhere!!!!

Can you guess what this is?

WILD!!!!

(Milwaukee soil must be good!! 

...This is the biggest garden we have had yet!) 

Not even Boone (NC) compares!?

Too Cute

Closeup Heavenly Yellow

Process of Opening

                                                                                   

  Today: Already eaten (in part) by birds...:-(

Our Lone Sunflower (planted by accident in a vegetable garden...) :-)

A rare sunflower beauty. :-)

(My husband was able to discern this was 

a sunflower early on and left it to grow.)

"Why, hello."

:-)

My Japanese Dream

A Japanese Hillside (by K. Annie Powell) 1975

                        Original: pen & ink and watercolor

Delectable Squash Leaf

Squash Leaf Poster 2016

Delicate and delectable squash blossoms that tantalize...

by hiding just out of view in the summer sun.

:-)

lg

(Way Cool) DIY Project

DIY 1920's Decorative Window (poster)

Vintage Window Art(1920's); Decorate 'as you wish.'

Crackled White Paint Patina (that I love); 1920 Window Art

A Decorative Valance of Vintage Napkins (they were folded and kept by my mother-in-law Barbara Powell :-) )

Add Any Decorative Items of Your Choice...

This was a $5.00 'find' at an antique fair rummage in Oshkosh, Wisconsin purchased 

the weekend of the (now famous) large antique 44th (!) annual car show in Iola, 
Wisconsin. Hang on study wire and hangers for a decorative reminder of 
better days gone by. Add vintage iron hooks to hang dried flower bunches or 
vintage lace or delicate vintage hand towels of your favorite fabric of the era from the bottom...Change the decorations to suit your fancy and for each holiday! 

Or line from behind with decorative vintage wallpaper for a sleeker,  

altogether different look.

lg :-)

Happy Garden!

The 2016 Garden Through the Window...

Fabulous Squash Plants

Fabulous Squash Plants All Lined Up in the Early Evening...  

Plantings in this, our happy 2016 garden in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are as follows.

Fairy Tale Eggplant

Big Whopper Eggplant

Dusky Eggplant

Pretty and Sweet Peppers

Yellow Squash

Zucchini

Early Bird Tomatoes

Better Boy Tomatoes

Wisconsin Tomatoes

Jalapeno Peppers

Sweet Pimento Peppers

Garden Salsa Peppers

Bell Peppers

Okra

Better Bell Peppers

Baron Red Bell Peppers

Sugar Snap Peas

Kuri Squash

Collard Greens

Peppermint Swiss Chard

Cauliflower

Scotch Bonnet Peppers

Purple Cabbage

Kale

Radicchio Lettuce

Beets

Broccoli 

(Watch for the produce to be photographed as it arrives...) :-)