Ashley Mac's with my dear friend, Viv!

She had an awesome chicken salad on a croissant and greek pasta.

Had my usual, 6 times now: spinach feta tart with BLT salad, and their awesome sour cream biscuit/muffin.

They have a great menu, but I'm hooked right now on the same thing.

Last night was beer-butt chicken on the grill with mashed potatoes so tonight is just a salad, but with lots of add-ins.
We have leftover cream cheese cherry/blueberry dessert left from last night also.

Patti, put a touch of salt on the melon. Should help some.

Had our monthly lunch out "with the old folks" today. As usual, it turned out to be an all afternoon affair of good food, good friends and good conversation. We top it off with something from the dessert menu after enough jaw wagging and time to make room for it after our sumptious meals at Garretts Restaurant. Today I had a Ruben sandwich and Lemon Torte for dessert.

If DH and I decide we need anything more to eat today there is some leftover tossed salad from last night in the fridge. Or maybe a couple of the little mandarin oranges that I bought yesterday would be good to hold us over till breakfast.

I did a lot of cooking again today. Had meatloaf, a baked potato (plus eating the potato skins), and creamed corn for my meal.

Shirley

Glenda, I do the same thing. When I find something I like at a restaurant, I get it every time we go. I figure I know it's good. Not sure if I chose something else.

Hellion, both dinners sound good. Anything with mashed potatoes has me drooling all over the keyboard. I always put a little salt on my watermelon. It seems to bring out the flavor. Your dessert sounds really good--enjoy!!

Gazania, your lunch sounds like so much fun!! Nothing like good food and conversation to make it a great day. Your lunch sounds great ('cept for the suerkraut). I don't blame you for not being hungry :-)

Last nite I made a whole-wheat pasta salad, and added broccoli, onions, coloured peppers, and lentils and a handful of chopped lovage.

Had some of that for dinner (it grew as I made it!), with some feta, and hamburger patties.

We just finished some stewed rhubarb and vanilla ice cream for dessert. I also have a rhubarb cake and another rhubarb pie in the oven.

I had a rather blah day, too, Patti. I need to take a day off after that full day yesterday. I did tape and trim the outdoor carpeting we put down on our porch and that's about it. I needed to rest up for tomorrow. Tomorrow I leave at 8:00 a.m. for golf (the course is 45 minutes away) and then we'll go out for lunch. After lunch, several of us are staying at a friends who lives out that way because we have Mexican Train at her house. I won't be getting home until around 10:00 p.m. A long day so I'm well rested.

Tonight we're having Mexican potatoes for dinner. Yum!

Patti, Hope you sleep better tonight. I live in mid-TN & we have been having lots of rain-more overnight. Yes it does make the grass grow.
For dinner it was hot dogs

We had some chicken and cream gravy left over at work and I brought that home and reheated it. It was very good.

My dad used to say: Never buy a watermelon before the 4th of July!

That was many years ago when he owned the local grocery store.

Patti, I had a similar night and a similar day. But today I had plans to make lunch for my daughter-in-law, and I did. I haven't had dinner yet, but I think it'll be leftover lunch: tofu-sesame squares and broccoli/quinoa with orange-ginger sauce. I posted these pics on Facebook earlier:

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Shirley, good for you for getting a leg up on the cooking. I need to start eating out of ours (leftovers), but I figure if we have a hurricane this summer, that food will come in handy to warm on the Coleman stove. So I'm hoarding it :-)

Jasdip, you really are making good use out of that rhubarb. I've never had rhubarb cake. I like it stewed just about better than in pie. Man, it sure takes a lot of sugar! Your salad sounds delish!

Georgysmom, hope you're as good on the course as you were the other day! That's going to be a really long, but fun, day.

Mary, aha! When you say "hills" you really, really mean hills! Tennessee is a beautiful state. Thank you for the nice thoughts.

Bengardening--that's one of the perks to working in the restaurant business. Leftovers rock!!

Glenda, our watermelons in FL are ready at the end of May. This one came from Texas. I just picked a bad one--didn't have any yellow part from where it laid.

Alisande, I tried sauteeing toufu once. I think I had the wrong grade or whatever it's called. It wasn't the firm kind. I must say it looks delicious--but not half as good as the broccoli. That sauce looks amazing!

We've had asparagus coming in like crazy from our asparagus bed. I was looking up recipes for chicken wrapped asparagus, but it started getting late, and the recipes all seemed fairly complicated so I went a different way with what I had on hand and the results were great.

Note: All measurements are guesses.

Chicken-Asparagus Pasta

5 oz mezzo penne pasta
1 boneless skinless chicken breast
12 fresh asparagus spears (cut into 1" pieces)
1/4 red bell pepper
3 white mushrooms (sliced)
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp Olive oil
1 Tbsp butter
2 tsp flour
1/4 cup white wine
1 oz aged gruyere cheese (grated)

Cook pasta in boiling water.

Heat 1 Tbsp olive oil in large pan over medium heat. Add chicken, asparagus and red pepper cook for 5 minutes.
Add garlic and mushrooms cook for another 3 minutes
Stir in lemon juice. Melt butter in center of pan, stir flour into butter. Add wine and stir until sauce thickens somewhat. Drain pasta add to pan along with second Tbsp of olive oil.
Stir in half of grated cheese. Serve and top with remaining cheese.

home alone (dh is at his dad's building a new ramp) didn't feel like coooking, so it was pb and honey sandwich...