This week Weekend Herb Blogging is being hosted by Virginie of Absolutely Green.
This weekend I made Goat Cheese and Scallion Cheese Log.
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This weekend I made Orzo Pasta Salad with Mint Pesto
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Mint Pesto with Pomegranate Syrup
Makes about 3/4-1 cups
1 cup packed mint leaves
1/4 cup Italian Parsley leaves
1/2 cup parmesan, grated
2 tablespoons shallot, chopped
3 medium garlic cloves
1 teaspoon lemon zest, grated
salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoons pomegranate syrup
Combine the mint, parsley, parmesan, shallot, garlic and zest in a food processor. Pulse until all chopped up and then add the salt and pepper. Then slowly drizzle in the olive oil and pomegranate syrup until it becomes a paste.
This can be refrigerated in a covered dish overnight.
Note: if you don’t have pomegranate syrup then you can add more oil and a little bit of lemon juice.
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Look at all that chocolate! All but one is dark chocolate. Why do I have all this chocolate? Well actually I don't. I only had it in my greedy, piggy little hands for a few short hours before I packed it all up and sent it to dear old Dad for his Father's Day gift. He loves to tell me that dark chocolate is now good for you. So you see, this is all for his health. I am such a fine daughter. Dad opened his package as soon as he got it. He does not wait for the day. He called right away and say he was testing them out and will keep me informed. He has seen them in the stores but not venutred too far into all the selections opting usually for one of Lindt's delicious varietals.
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This week I made Paparadelle with Lemon Butter and Chive Sauce. I actually made this to go along with a Veal Scaloppini that I made for the most recent Paper Chef. I loved the sauce so much that I made it again last night to gove over these little dried ravioli and it was just as delicious. You have to make it!
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Father’s Day
The Romans may have celebrated the first Father’s Day. Between February 13 and February 22, the Romans observed Parentalia. This feast memorialized deceased fathers only and not the living. Ovid wrote that the purpose of the holiday was to “appease the souls of your fathers”. The Romans would bring honey, oil and water to the graves of their father’s as an offering to their souls. Father’s Day, as we know it today, has been celebrated by families both big and small since 1910. In, 1909, Mrs. John B. Dodd who lived in Washington State was the first person to propose Father’s Day. Her father, William Smart, raised six children all by himself after his wife had died in childbirth. When Mrs. Dodd grew up and began to raise a family, she realized how hard her father worked to raise her and her siblings all by himself. She came up with the idea during a Mother’s Day sermon. She no longer had a mother to celebrate so she wanted to celebrate her father and all fathers. She got her wish. On June 19, 1910, the first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. The YMCA of Spokane helped her publicize the event. Mrs. Dodd also proclaimed that the official flower of Father’s Day would be the rose. You are to wear a white rose to commemorate a deceased father and red rose to celebrate a living father. Father Day celebrations began to be held across the country. In 1912, J.H. Berringer organized a service at Irvington Church in Vancouver, Washington. In 1919, The Uptown Lion’s Club in Chicago held celebrations on the 3rd Sunday in June. This tradition continued for many years.President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, showed his support of Father’s Day and asked Congress to decree a National Father’s Day. He said during one speech that “the widespread observance of this occasion is calculated to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children, and also to impress upon father’s the full measure of their obligations.”It was not until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation, that Father’s Day became a holiday. Across the Nation on the third Sunday in June, Fathers are celebrated for all the wonderful things they do for their families all year.
My Old Man~Mark Twain
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
No matter what you do this Father's Day, don't forget to feed him and feed him well.
Strawberries with Grilled Pound Cake
"Here is the scenario - a company has commissioned you to produce a series of images of its product, one of which will be selected for a promotional campaign. The image could be used either as an advert, in a printed catalogue or as a website image. The brief stipulates that three different images must be submitted at the same time and must feature the products name in unique and interesting ways. The image must include an area of space for a small amount of text to be inserted, either blank space or a blurred area. You are given free reign to interpret the product and the brief in anyway you see fit but no text should be added to the image, any wording must come from the product itself. ”I however forgot that we needed three and deleted all but two from my camera. Oh well. Guess I won't be getting the job this time.
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