....Over the Weekend...

...I started the weekend off right!...with some mini cinnamon doughnuts...

...this is a little trick of mine to keep that spray oil off the counters and floor...I set the pan on the open dishwasher door and spray it there...then the overspray just gets washed off the door the next time I run the dishwasher...

...ready to bake...I didn't quite have enough batter for the 12th one...I must have overfilled...it's supposed to make 12...and usually does...

...mixed up some cinnamon and powdered sugar...

...and gave the hot from the oven doughnuts a generous dunk in the powdery coating...

...put them on a pretty antique glass plate...

...and served with hot tea...

...they are so delicious...

...perfectly just crispy on the outside and tender and cakey on the inside...I love cinnamon doughnuts...do you?...they're my favorite kind...the Man prefers glazed...but he ate his share of these...haha...

...then I painted the wall in Our Airman's old bedroom...where his aquarium filter had stained it a little bit...I'll do another coat later...

...one of our generous gardeners gave us these big bags of squash/zucchini...and cucumbers...

...so I sorted them by size...these smaller ones for some sweetish...bread and butter refrigerator pickles...I called Mom and asked for a recipe...

...and these larger ones...I'm going to cut lengthwise and make some refrigerator dills...

...complete...I used Grandma's Veg-O-Matic to make the slices and the spears...we got 2 1/2 quarts of Refrigerator Bread and Butters...and 2 quarts of Refrigerator garlicky dills...it really didn't take that long...and now I'll just have to wait a couple of days to try them...

...then...when I was going through the cupboards and fridge...making my grocery list...I found some celery that was past its prime...so I chopped it up for the freezer...

...and found some wilty green onions in the same state...so I gave them the same treatment...I hate to waste food...

...in addition to my regular shopping I stopped here at this farmer's market...

...established 1972...neat...

...so clean and tidy...and everything was well displayed...

...you take a garden basket at the door to put your shopping in...everything that was local was marked local...the Man loves these white North Carolina sweet potatoes...they're pretty rare in regular grocery stores...and they have more of the texture of an Idaho potato...they're never wet on the inside...and they're not too sweet...

...have you ever seen these white cucumbers...29¢ per pound...a fun bargan...

...got everything home and stowed away...

...then I cut up the two acorn squash...they are not my favorite squash...I prefer butternut or buttercup if I can find them...and like the orange sweet potatoes, acorn squash tend to be a little bit to wet for my taste...so I cut them in rings so they'd dry out a bit more...

...I only bought one green tomato...as I'm the only one who likes them...so I sliced that and started it frying ...just so I could snack on it while I was prepping everything else...

...and of course...I roasted the squash seeds along with the squash...

...prepped the leftover bread for some homemade croutons...I had actually put the pieces in the freezer so these are from two different loaves...

...the tomato was ready...so delicious...

...and so were the squash seeds...I put them in a bowl to cool...but devoured them pretty quickly too...

...I fried a zucchini for the Man...as he doesn't like the green tomoto...

...the croutons are just about done...just a few more minutes...

...the squash is done too...

...I made a tomato sandwich with the largest tomato from my basket...there really is nothing like a fresh vine ripened tomato sandwich in the summertime...and we called all of that snacking around...lunch...haha...

Super Easy Small Batch Vegan Mayo

1/2 cup neutral oil
1/4 cup vegan milk
1 teaspoon Apple Cider Vinegar
scant pinch of mustard
salt to taste...I used about 1/4 teaspoon for this small batch...
...blend with a stick blender...

...then I mixed up a 5 lb. bag of self rising flour...I've posted about it before...pre-made SR Flour has baking powder with aluminum in it...and I prefer to make my own so that I can use aluminum free baking powder...and still have the convenience of having self rising flour on hand...

...in the evening we heard such a racket outside the door...and we found this tiny little guy...

...these little green tree frogs make so much noise...they almost sound like a dog barking...really loudly...funny...

...Sunday after Church...the Man and I went to the local Cuban restaurant...this time I got the vegetable torta...grilled peppers onions and mushrooms on their famous Cuban bread...it was delicious...

...and then when we got home...I cut up two and a half of the local cabbages...

...and made another batch of sauerkraut...it should be ready about the time our current jar runs out...

...and finally...for dinner...I just made some microwave potato chips to go with the second half of my torta from lunch...

...so looking back on it...that seems like a pretty busy weekend...but at the time it didn't seem harried at all...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!