Interesting easy lunch yesterday
Pasta, roast chicken, big handful of cilantro (no, I don't want to know if you don't like it, thank you!) with a lot of pepper and hot spicy flavor, raspberries and blueberries for dessert.
And the friend who brought all the dipped chocolate treats and went away with an artwork sent me this picture of it in its new
home.
The work is Three Sisters, mixed media with black gesso, made from a Styrofoam printer container, sardine cans and handmade beads, among other things. Many references in it to family, differences, likenesses, inevitability. This piece dates far back, to the seventies probably.
Happy day, everyone, shrimp for Chrissy Eve dinner. That's about the sum of today's ambition.
Happy Christmas! I need you to give some lessons on interesting easy lunches. Yours looks delicious. I've been washing dishes and pots and pans for 5 days of preparation.
ReplyDeleteI think your situation with SG is quite different!
DeleteHe almost didn't survive the day, but he redeemed himself. Excuse me while I wash some more dishes.
DeleteAnd I so wanted to say something about cilantro! I'm having shrimp tomorrow. Your easy lunch looks delicious (no cilantro comment). Your art piece is beautiful and looks good where she put it.
ReplyDeleteYes, as soon as you're asked not to, you instantly need to say something! I get that. Thank you for the nice words about the artwork. She loves it, so it landed well.
Deleteso nice when an artwork is appreciated and gifted. a gift for both the recipient and the giver.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. My work has a small audience, so it's always good when there's a successful connection.
DeleteYour art has found the perfect new home!
ReplyDeleteI'd say so.
DeleteAnd as I read this, it is Christmas Eve day for real.
ReplyDeleteWishing you so much coziness and contentment. And lots of love.
Thank you, and all that for you, too.
DeleteMerry Christmas to you and your family, love your lunch, it does look yummy. Got homemade cauliflower soup here for our lunch.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of the cauliflower in in freezer, thank you. Maybe soup, maybe cauliflower cheese.
DeleteSo nice to know that your art piece is enjoying a new home where it obviously is loved and appreciated.
ReplyDeleteIt's a happy landing.
DeleteThanks for giving us a look at the artwork! Have a great Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThanks for both. Good Christmas by the sea for you and D. I'm a pote!
DeleteHappy Christmas! I like the mixed media art.
ReplyDeleteThank you. And a good New Year to you.
DeleteHappy home for your art, and I like the companion piece too! Would certainly have enjoyed your lunch. Taking a shrimp ring to a party with family tonight. Fa la la la la...
ReplyDeleteShrimp for the win! Today's lunch.
DeleteSalt fish is our Christmas Eve meal. Newfoundlanders always had salt fish before several days of turkey started.
ReplyDeleteFish on Christmas Eve is an old tradition. Growing up it was a day of abstinence from meat, as the eve of Christmas Day, a major feast day on the Catholic calendar, so often fish was the choice.
DeleteI love that the art is cherished and given prode of place. Happy Christmas to you and HS and thanks again for warming my hands!
ReplyDeleteThank you and you're welcome, it was a pleasure.
DeleteYour artwork is so varied and fascinating.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It does get around.
DeleteHappy Christmas!
ReplyDeleteYour meal looks delicious. I hope you have a relaxing holiday.
Thank you! It was good.
DeleteThe food looks great. Happy Christmas to you.
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeleteWow. It looks fantastic. I bet your very pleased. I know I would be.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and your near and dearest
It worked out nicely. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
DeleteChicken and cilantro (coriander here) is a match made in heaven.
ReplyDeleteIt is Christmas day here so I can honestly say Merry Christmas.
thank you! As of the Eve, it's Christmas here! I know it's a bit iffy for you, but Merry Aspirational Christmas!
DeleteSeason's greeting to you and to HS. Keep enjoying each day of the next year.
ReplyDeleteThank you, and Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you too. Yes, I think enjoying each day is a plan.
DeleteMerry Christmas! May your day be peaceful and happy!
ReplyDeleteYou cracked me up with the cilantro.
ReplyDeleteI always here a love/hate over that herb.
Me ... I LOVVVEEEE it!
It's gotta be in the homemade salsa for me.