It’s a beautiful day here today–after (much needed) two days of rain and one day of overcast clouds.
I have the porch back for lunch as it has now dried out and the temps are comfortably warmer. We’ve all been in warmer clothes these past three days.
So, I grilled a steak–which will give me three meals.
And I put my dinner portion of steak on a big salad as that just felt right today. In addition to a lettuce medley, I had cooked food “assets” in the refrigerator that I added (corn taken off cobs, broccoli, little green peas). Fresh food additions were carrot, red pepper, sweet onion, cucumber, and fresh herbs (dill, mint, basil) added to a shake or two of a dried herbal mixture. Dressing was my Organic Roots Koroneiki olive oil. And, flaked salt, of course.
The flowers my granddaughter and son brought me a week ago are playing out now. I don’t quite have enough flowers in the garden to fill two pots yet. Hmmm… I’m sure something else can be done about the lack of flowers!
I’m reading The Time Traveler’s Wife, which I somehow missed some years back. There is a movie, too, but I thought I should read the book before watching the movie.
I puttered about in the garden this morning, and Alex was here to mow my lush-looking grass.
About a year ago, maybe more, SIL Maryann took some of the mint in my Maine garden. That mint came from my grandmother’s Georgia garden, and I had had it for at least 50 years. When I moved to South Carolina, winter was encroaching, and I was so, so busy that I did not dig any of the mint to take with me. The mint at Maryann’s is thriving, so she dug me some and mailed it. I planted it this morning. Best of all, if it doesn’t make it, I could probably get more. I planted it well away from the mint I bought here, which is thriving.
I’m making the last row of the Traverse quilt. It’s a complicated row, and a granddaughter spent Friday night with me, and we played for most of Saturday, so Traverse got put on hold. But…maybe today…it will be ready for some pictures.
And that is where I am going now.
I hope you are all enjoying this holiday Monday.
Louisa Enright's Blog 
Enjoy your day — that is an excellent book.
Your salad looks amazing, Louisa! We had steak tips last night with a baked potato made in our new Ninja Foodi multi cooker and steamed broccoli, it was so good! Along with the tips we sauteed mushrooms that we grew from a box! Our daughter gifted us a mushroom kit from North Spore, so much fun. I’ll have to look for that book, I seemed to have missed it too! Potatoes are planted, but it’s so windy here today. We are going to pick some asparagus from my SIL’s garden. Yum… Jan in MA
I had to look up what a Ninja Food multi cooker is–and oh my goodness! What a fascinating piece of equipment. I read one long review of it that said the baked potatoes were the best they had ever eaten. Do you love it? How long have you had it?
So glad you have some of Mom-Mon’s mint!!! I remember it well♥️♥️♥️
When I was little–before Uncle B married likely–it was my job to go pick mint for the dinner/noon sweet tea. The mint then was in the back yard of Little House–where grandmother had a HUGE tea rose garden. Later, after Uncle B married, the tea roses were removed and that space turned into a grassy back yard–appropriate for a family and children. Picking the mint likely was a part of my own love of plants and gardening.