Sunrise
This is a begonia I saved from outside after it frosted a couple years ago. It’s really happy in this window.
On Tuesday I was up at 5:30AM finished the laundry, cleaned up the kitchen, did chores and breakfast and cooked 2 more meals.
I started the sweet potato toasts first as they were the simplest. I got to use my new meat tenderizer from the estate sale to hammer the knife through the potato. I did not season them.
Next I sliced an onion into wide rings and mixed up this recipe:
Onion Omelettes
1 onion, cut in ½” slices
4 eggs, beaten
1 tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
1 tsp oregano
½ lb mozzarella, grated
Loosen the slices into unbroken rings. Mix next 4 ingredients very well. Grease a large frypan and place onion rings around inside, to serve as cups to hold mixture. Put spoonfuls of mixture into each slice, filling it. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. Turn each omelette and cover and cook for 5 more minutes until side is golden brown.
I quickly discovered that while I didn’t overfill the rings, when the cheese melts, it goes everywhere. I still had rings left so I mixed up more batter and cooked those too.
The first batch, in which I got to use my new ladle from the estate sale
For some reason the second batch didn’t make such a mess. This is equal to 4 meals, 3 in freezer, 1 for lunch.
When the toasts finished, I again had 3 for the freezer and 1 for later. Here’s that recipe:
Sweet Potato Toast
Slice sweet potato with skin about ½” thick. Put on greased baking sheet and season with garlic salt and cinnamon and bake for 20 minutes . Turn and bake for another 20 minutes. Cool and store in fridge. Heat in toaster, cook 2 eggs, and squeeze out ½ avocado onto warm slice and top with egg.
I rested until 10AM and then got dressed and went out to clean out the Small garden.
It took about 2 hours but all the debris and rotten cabbages are out.
My son came out and we got the last 3 tarps washed and hung to dry. Before we started we folded up all the dry ones from Monday. Each tarp has its size written on it. That makes it easier to put them down in the fall.
Around 5:30PM he and I went out to see if the tarps got dry. They didn’t fit in the big tote. Good thing I got another large tote at the estate sale!
For supper I put 3 fried eggs on top of the sweet potato toasts, sprinkled some Parmesan cheese on the eggs and topped them with greens and dressing. They were really good!
When I went up to check the mail, the pansies in the sign box were still flowering their hearts out.
There was lots of sun and the temps went into the mid 70’s. The heat has forced many of the bulbs to open. I love how these in the West of Steps garden glow in the evening sun.
The magnolia’s buds are really swollen but none have opened yet.
At the barn the rhododendron, which is nearly 40 years old, is covered in buds.
All these flowers about to open still in April, I hope they don’t get frosted. But my last frost date is May 31…
Fence garden daffodils nearly all open
I was pretty wiped out and I don’t think I will be going to exercise class on Wednesday. It’s to rain, and I’m also supposed to get a delivery of broken bale hay mulch, hopefully before it rains. My general helper is supposed to come at noon, so we will be doing errands and cooking while it rains.