Lunch at Daisy's with Mom

My mom was recently here and one of the things we wanted to do this time was go to Clarion to Daisy's on Main.  I had been there a few months ago and it's really nice.  It's a very nice gift shop and tea room in downtown Clarion.  

Clarion is where a lot of area people go to the hospital there to have knee replacements and things like that so I had been wanting to see the hospital and the town for quite a while.  It's only an hour from our house.  The coffee shop on Main Street, Grounded, has good lunch with a big menu.  Click on the link.  I see it has a 4 1/2 stars rating on one internet site.

We had a nice lunch.  We both did the "choose two" option and I had salad with egg salad sandwich and quiche.  Mom had cream of asparagus soup, tuna salad sandwich and cashew chicken.  They always make their little knotted yeast rolls which are so good and they even sell bags of extras.  This time there was a tiny muffin on our plates and a garnish of parsley leaf and orange.  The other time I went there, they had a hot pink impatience flower with parsley as the leaves behind it for garnish.  I took lots of pictures.

the menu changes weekly - follow them on Facebook to see the menus

good picture of Mom - I was able to reserve the table for 2 by the window

food  always shows up nice on white plates

the dessert choices - we passed on this day

this was next to our table - pretty!

you see this wagon as you go into the tea room and it was near our table

part of the gift shop - upstairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

view down from the railing upstairs

Thanks Mom!

My phone is back thanks to Mom so I have pictures!  Will get busy now and post the pictures of the tea room we went to while she was here and then things we did when in Florida back in January.

Bill and Tim have been working on the planter.  Per our Federal Crop Insurance, we could've started planting on April 11th this week but the soil temp. is only 33 degrees and needs to be around 55.  We just had another snow Wed. night.  This morning, Bill mentioned needing to check out the sprayer but once he tests it with water in it, it would have to be kept in Tim's heated shed so it wouldn't freeze.  Our night time temps. are still below freezing.  Our grass is barely starting to get green in places and birds are returning.  I have some daffodils up and getting ready to bloom. 

I babysat the little girls today.  After getting Camry to sleep for a nap, Lacey & I made 7 Layer Bars and some Chocolate Pecan Kisses which are meringue type cookies.  I made them for the first time with an old recipe of Mom's yesterday for Diane's birthday and they turned out good.  She has always loved "meringues".  They are so easy! 

I've been spending some time with my friend, Terri, helping her with the business things that need to be done when your spouse passes away.  I told her I'm her personal assistant like I was in my last job since many of the things we're doing are the type of things I did at work.  It's nice to be doing it with and for a friend rather than as a real job.    

Lately

My mom has been with us the past few days and went home yesterday.  Unfortunately, my cell phone rode along with her back to Indiana.  It has the pictures from the tea room we went to, etc.

This past weekend Bill and I went to Omaha for a wedding and spent one night there.  Mom babysat the girls at our house while we were gone.

Mon. after Diane got off work, us girls went to Storm Lake for pedicures at Spa Nails and ate at BozWellz.

We've had a nice amount of rain the past two days, over 2", which is great.  We will take more though.  Last night we had hail a couple of times.  It's possible we may get 1-3" of snow starting tonight.

I went to a P.E.O. social last night with Iowa wines and we all took appetizers.  I made Aunt Jan's baked corn dip.  

This morning at our library a Rolfe resident who is a former Texas police officer and professor of Criminology is going to do a program for us on Criminology.  I'm looking forward to it.  I've heard he is a good speaker and very interesting. 

Bill and Tim are working on adding some lights in Tim's shed. 

 

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Kitchen Experimentation

Lately, people have been posting all kinds of recipes on Facebook.  I think the Pampered Chef ladies are trying new ways to advertise on social media (can't blame them - those of us who are Stampin' Up! demonstrators try too).

I made one called Taco Bake recently and it was easy and good enough to make again - if you like Mexican food.  You just brown a pound of hamburger (I always add onion to hamburger for something like this), add a packet of taco seasoning and the water it calls for plus 1/2 c. salsa (or more).  Then layer a flour tortilla in a Pam sprayed round cake pan (I used the small tortillas), a layer 1/3 of the taco meat, a layer of Mexican cheese (about 1/2 c.), tortilla, meat, cheese, tortilla, meat, cheese.  Bake at 350 for 15-20 min. or until the cheese is melted and tortilla edges are slightly brown.

I served it with some lettuce, a little salsa, sour cream and cherry tomatoes.  Green onions would've made it better.

Happy April Fool's Day