Food, Fellowship, Flowers and Farmer's

We truly had a blessed weekend of "breaking bread" with family and in taking pleasure in the joy of real, honest fellowship with one another. Friday was our dinner with the boys and then on Sunday at IVC we had "Ladies Night". While the men went out for pizza all the ladies stayed behind for a special dinner of home made dishes. It was a great time to meet with the woman of IVC and love on each other.

The Quinoa, Lentil, Coconut Stew Bianca mentioned that we had on Friday at the family dinner recipe was taken from a blog I am a fan of; Two Blue Lemons. Here is the link: http://www.twobluelemons.com/2009/06/coconut-quinoa-stew.html. Enjoy!

Also, this weekend, though we had rain on Saturday our pot of daffodils came into full bloom bringing in the Spring! Annalisa's mom, whom Bianca and I just adore planted a whole pot of daffodils for us, there must be at least fifteen of them! They came to us after President's Day weekend with strict orders not to be watered by both Annalisa and I, so they would not end up drowning. I have the joy of watering them with our other plants and watching slowly as one by one they begin blooming. They are just so beautiful, thank you so much Cathy!



For our usual Sabbath outing we browse the Farmer's and get all our weeks produce. Lina and Marissa have ventured into the world of whole, raw and delicious foods and joined us this week to find out all the best deals. It's so great to have a whole crew now. At one of the Asian vegetable stands they had purple sweet potatoes- solid purple all the way through! Lindsay had gotten one at the beginning of the year and I had been waiting to see them there again! We also stopped by another of our favorite places, the Oriental Market near Camino Real to pick up the ingredients for Vietnamese Spring Rolls that Bianca learned how to make from a friend. These are the real deal, look for out for a post this week.



It's so funny to see us pull up from the Farmer's, between Lindsay, Bianca and I we usually have about 6 or 7 bags full of green vegetables, fruits and flowers. Then we pile into the kitchen to unload and our fridges begin to look as if a garden was growing! It's crazy how fast it all goes and by the end of the week we're always scrounging to make something out of whatever we have left.

Now, the weekends over and here we are starting out dead week. Only one more week til finals and then back to Santa Cruz!