Chateau Blanc Biscuits

Je sera hors du pays consommant des biscuits, en allant camargue les chevaux, en creusant des tranchees et en mangeant au Chateau Blanc Normandie. Au revoir pour maintenant.

Friday Cat Blogging (well, sort of)

Shoot! It's about 10p.m. Friday night, and I almost missed my Friday Cat Blogging. Apologies to all who waited with baited or is it bated breath? (A nod to Nathan's post, and fellow word-nerds "Talk Wordy To Me"). I didn't find anything about bated or baited on the Talk Wordy To Me blog though.

Anyway...my cat Hazel's breath is rotten, but she sure is cute!

O.K. so, technically this isn't Hazel, and technically this isn't cat blogging....but at least I tried. My camera got destroyed by a rougue wave on the sailing trip and I'm waiting for my next work gig to get a new one.

All Dessert Party w/ Champagne

Key Lime Ring...check it out Val

Yesterday I asked a friend for recipe advice because I was invited to an "All Dessert Party" (Sounds good don't it?) which I attended last night. And it was...good, that is.

She posted a great recipe for me. Desert Party! For Diana! Official thanks pal.

Unfortunately I did not make the dessert....or any dessert for that matter, but instead, rode my bike to a suburban supermarket and bought, (no bartering, no baking here) a classic-looking Key Lime Pie, which sneakily I slid onto a charming little plate and passed off as my own...HA HA! Got you guys! "My" pie fit in quite nicely with the home baked chocolate-chunk cookies, the hand-churnned ice cream with blueberry sauce, the mousse parfaits, and champage. Yes, champagne too!

Are all "All Dessert Parties" accompanied by champagne you ask? Not all...but when the intrepid hostess gets herself down on bended knee, (amongst cookie crumbs and blueberry sauce) in front of her long-time boyfriend and asks for his hand in marriage...then YES, you need champagne!!!!! 

CONGRATULATIONS VAL and DEAN!!!!!!!

Val, you are a courageous woman.

It was terrific all around and my friends recipe surely would have been another tummy jammin' treat. So thanks again pal. 

I must add that it wasn't sheer laziness or poor planning that led me to cheat on the pie, (a cheat far greater than Bisquick I must add) but it was a new and sudden job prospect that will bring me to my recipe-posting pals hood in the real near future. Look out preggy woman...I will see that round belly of your in person soon...yes I will!

Baby Citrus

Well it looks like the goods will be plump and ready to eat, squeeze, and drink by the time you northern dwellers come on down for a visit this winter. We had really fragrant lime and tangerine blossoms a couple of weeks ago, and now....babies. LOOK!

Key Lime Baby

Tangerine Baby

Community Baby - Plump and ready to eat!

Young Limes

A friend of mine posted a great picture of one of her ducks eggs in her hand just like this, so I thought I'd respond in a geographically correct way...this is todays egg-like delivery here on the sub-tropical, suburban, ranchette.

Our Capt. and our 4th Mate

It's the British Virgin Islands!!!!!!!!!!

Shoot. Nathan is on my ass....does this guy do anything else but blog???

O.K. So Julia won. It's the BVI's. Amazing.

YAY. Way too easy though. Now you need to guess why our boats seem so small and why Shawn is giving a shirt to a homeless guy?