Rhubarb Custard Pie

Easter Menu

Leg of lamb, mashed potatoes, buttered peas with mint, cold asparagus with lemon vinaigrette, baked tomato caprese, and eggs with crème fraîche and herbs

I am enjoying a healthy breakfast every morning. I have been doing this for about six months now and am really delighted to realize the benefits of lots more energy everyday! I love it!!!

I want to share my smoothie recipe with you, most of the ingredients are organic.
1. handful of spinach
2. 2 tablespoons of coconut milk (canned & not reduced fat)
3. ½ of a small raw beet, chopped
4. 8oz. of water
5. scoop of protein powder
6. ½ cup of mixed frozen berries

Blend until smooth.

Sometimes I add to my breakfast a semi-hard boiled free-range, farm egg for a real treat. This is the best!

Most mornings we made two stops; first at a patisserie for a quick and oh soooo delicious pastry and then again for coffee.  This particular morning we sat down for a leisurely breakfast at a small, classically French restaurant.

When they served my breakfast, it was so attractively arranged and the butter pot was covered in vellum, printed with the name and address of the restaurant. I had to photograph it!

It all tasted as good as it looked and we were off to see the fine sights of Paris.

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My daughter Caitlin had her birthday this month and I had fun preparing a small dinner party to celebrate. I was so happy that she and her friends wanted to come to my house for dinner!

The weather was still beautiful so we served cold cilantro-lime shrimp, cheese and fruit on the kitchen deck. We moved inside to the kitchen table for dinner. It is always festive and informal to eat in the kitchen where most of my parties end up anyway.

I brought in my darling little lemon thyme trees to decorate the dining table and put a large arrangement of white Japanese anemones on a side table. The beautiful fall arrangement of scented geraniums, rose hips and deep violet Dahlias was a hostess gift and graced the corner cabinet close by.

My menu was a lightly smoked salmon grilled with lemon parsley butter, mashed potatoes, green beans, caprese salad and “eggs in a cloud of herbs”. This egg recipe is in an earlier blog if you want to try them. They are one of Caitlin’s favorite. I make these eggs for holidays and many times when I entertain.

Good food, flowers, and most of all, family and sweet friends make a lovely evening to enjoy and remember. Caitlin and her friends left full and happy.