Posted on 03/01/2026 5:58:25 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Not impressed with the simple Southern recipe.
I have made Nagi’s potato salad before & liked it so I think it’s what I will do for Wednesday. I even like the small pieces of cucumber (cool, refreshing, different), but would leave it out for the potluck.
https://www.recipetineats.com/potato-salad/
Saw and heard red-winged black birds here last week.
The bluebird was a surprise.
Seeing more robins today.
😀
Tater Salad Bump! :)
15 basket ideas here:
https://balconygardenweb.com/hanging-baskets-for-herbs/
Ing 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 lge apples peeled, cored, in ¼-½" dice 1 teaspoon lemon juice ⅓ cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 package puff pastry 1 lge egg, for egg wash Coarse sugar
Directions To melted butter add diced apples, lemon juice, brown sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, vanilla; stir to coat, cook about 10-12 min then set offheat. Place puff pastry on lightly floured surface; cut 8 equal squares. Press into bottom/sides of sprayed muffin tin. Spoon in apple filling, filling almost to top. Fold the corners of the pastry down to close over most of the top, leaving apple filling centers exposed. Brush tops w/ egg wash. Sprinkle w/ coarse sugar. Bake 20-25 min (croissants are golden brown, filling is bubbly). Let cool in pan 10 min, then set on wire rack. Serve warm.
Baked-apple-croissant
“Our” hummingbirds should be here in about 3-4 weeks. Usually they arrive once the buckeye trees are blooming - which reminds me to harvest some nuts to start new trees in milk jug pots to try to sell a few, and start a few more on the north-east end of the property by the road. ;-)
Somewhere along the line I’ll try to get my surviving (overwintered) large hanging pot of Impatiens repotted. They look VERY good, and are still flowering. I wish I’d had room to keep all 3 pots going, but, the only spot for the other 2 was the garage and it got too cold for them out there a few weeks ago. Out heating bill was just outrageous, and I had to cut back somewhere...
I’ll probably even try setting this one pot out, and bring it back in when (likely) we get a blast of cold - in fact, one looks to be coming early next week. The Weather Channel is predicting at least one low around 21 deg. F. (Darn!! That will kill a lot of stuff that’s out there trying to get going early... Which includes those buckeye nuts already trying to get going.) That (cold blast) will also delay me getting all the hoses set up outside, I’m afraid, so lugging water out to the chickens will be a thing for at least another week. :-(
INSIDE, over the weekend I added badly needed auxiliary lighting to 3 spots in our kitchen. I still see clearly (with glasses) but need more light to do it, these days. :-(
Now, among other things, I can better see what I’m preparing on the counter “in the dark corner”, or, over on the stove, what I’m cooking there! :-)
The light built into the stove itself that used to shine on the top was long defunct and the contacts to the bulb bad / corroded. Repairing that didn’t look particularly practical, so I just added and hard wired into the hood above the stove a much better (once I’d modified it) under cabinet LED light. One can even adjust the light color - not that I’m sure why I would. Wifey thinks it’s almost too bright, but, she’s a few years younger than I. I told her “give it a few years”.
Yum!
And, last but not least, my wife was about to give our chickens some remnants left over from avocados she’d prepared. It’s a good thing I stopped her!
Oops - less the typo:
And onions are bad for them too. (They seem to avoid them if fresh.)
Good info on what NOT to feed to the chickens.
Beau’s ‘Girls’ get stale bread/heels, veggie peelings and spinach or lettuce just about every day. I’m in charge of their treat bucket, which magically turns up on the kitchen counter at the end of the day, full of eggs! ;)
They love it. And their eggs are fantastic. :)
We have purchased new lighting for the kitchen and the pantry/laundry; yet to be installed. Menard’s, of course. 11% rebate. :)
And for the EXACT same reason! ;)
Glad you liked the apple pastries.......fast/easy breakfast.
Hung a shelf for two more 1020 trays plus a shelf to get some stuff off another shelf. I have a hardware shelf now. My tool shelves were getting cluttered with boxes and bins. Decided I don’t need 6 trays. Four will be fine again this year.
Rearranged things again and the tablet PC is back on the other side but it now sits on top of a 15" w x 12" dp metal 3 shelf unit that screwed to the wall. Perfect fit and height for tapping on a tablet and freed up my 2' square freestanding cabinet/counter for doing things like bottom watering. I had zero countertop/workbench type surface area.
Did an old To Do list item and cut a square hole in a weatherproof electrical enclosure to set that industrial PLC in. It’s the one for the drip pump where I punch in an amount of time to run and hit run. Good for backup or for watering on the fly without messing with a schedule or hitting an on button and then forgetting to turn it off. Box needs a coat of paint so I'll have to pick out a spray can of something nifty like the hammered finish look etc. Light color.
Made it to 80 yesterday. Outdoor temp and shed temp were within a degree of each other when I got home yesterday. Glad I put that reflectix foil bubble wrap insulation on the underside of the rafters. Stuff works good. Walls are insulated too. High of 84 today.
Rain tomorrow but showers, not downpours. Should be safe to spread the Sevin granules for my tick moat. Gotta rake the leaves back from my house-to-shop walking path, soon to be the close of the loop for the wrap around driveway. I did cut a few trees down last year and have driven the loop but it's tight. Need to cut a couple more and get a load of gravel. Delivery drivers will be very happy when it's done.
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