It's the Little Things.

It truly is the little things that make life lovely isn't it?  I have been absent from the blogging world the past few weeks, but that simply means I have been extremely present in every other aspect of my life.  I have spent ALOT of time in the kitchen, making and baking all sorts of things.  The past few weeks, we have hosted all sorts of family and friends for dinner, breakfast, and dinner again.  But even amidst our time in the kitchen, we somehow found time to do some projects outside!

So my time in the kitchen first began with baked stuffed peppers!  They were delicious and so very easy to make!  We stuffed them with turkey meat, rice, tomato soup and some spices.  You could probably add anything to them!

The second loveliest thing is our yard!  I mean look at that grass - that's Peter's handiwork!  And please note our lovely bird feeder on the right, christmas gift courtesy of my in-laws.  The birds LOVE it!  And look at that patio - goodbye hottub, hello patio and late night fires.  And note the retaining wall with the beautiful flowers - also Peter's doing.  And we planted potatoes - hope they grow!

Shepherd's Pie...yum yum.  So here we have turkey meat, carrots, corn, green beans, onions, and loads of spices.  Guess what the white topping was...looks like potatoes right?  Well it's not!  We actually cooked cauliflower and mashed it like you would potatoes and spread them on top.  And it was delicious!  I was shocked and so pleasantly surprised.

And the lovely things continue...I baked a TON of Shamrock cookies for an event we had this past Sunday.  It took forever to make them and frost them and bag them, but it was so worth it!  I had some girls over for dinner on Friday and put an Irish blessing and a cookie on each plate.

And we had people over for breakfast on Saturday morning to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and it wouldn't be St. Patrick's Day without a true Irish fry (includes fried egg, potato bread, soda bread, baked beans, black pudding, sausage, bacon, tomatoes, and sometimes mushrooms but we left those out).  Peter made potato bread and I made the soda bread and we had black tea and Peter hung the flag from the house!

Peter creating the potato bread - it was super easy!  Or so it seemed.  

What would St. Patrick's Day be without an Irish flag??  Peter created a gate to hide our bins and our huge stack of wood - and it looks so much better!

So there you have it...our lovely little things from the past few weeks.

xoxo,

Malia

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