Having a lovely time, catching up on huggles, sharing and chatting
Rebecca brought me an early Mother´s day gift.
She knows these are my favourites and she managed to bring these over by carefully wrapping and protecting them, even though they were in the hold luggage
I have two vases full of these beautiful blooms. So cheerful
They also brought over some tea, we like Sainsbury´s own de-caff Earl grey, so we have stocked up for a little while.
Sunday was a glorious day and we all lunched with friends at Maria´s.
It was extremely busy and a good job we had booked.
As I may have mentioned before, they cook over a huge open fire so when it´s busy then service takes quite a time. So we had a very long leisurely lunch (4 hours!) but certainly worth the wait.
Yesterday was such a contrast as a low came in, reducing the temps and cloudy, so as they had a few errands to run in town, we stopped to have a late breakfast of tostadas with grated tomatoes, olive oil and serrano ham with a couple of cups of fresh coffee each. Total was 13 euros not bad at all for all that.
Our neighbour has a very large lemon tree and he was picking them all to allow the flowers and fruit to set for next year. The lemons are quite sweet, so it will be thinking caps on to put them to good use. Lemon cordial, curd, flavoured water .......
Think I might just slice some and freeze for summer drinks, ideal for g & t without the ice watering it down!
Another day to enjoy today
take care
xcx
Hi Chrissie love the daffodils and how lovely to spend time with your friend,your bowl of lemons will come in handy xx
ReplyDeleteHi Sheryl, it´s actually my daughter and son in law staying with us at the moment, very special. xcx
DeleteIt sounds like you're having a lovely time with Rebecca, family time is so special when you live apart. Wow, that's a lot of lemons. You must definitely make a lemon drizzle cake, one of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteLoving their stay, Antoni has been working really hard so is benefiting from being able to just chill out. Lemon drizzle cake sounds good, will have to find a recipe. Klaus has plenty more lemons on his tree and we have been invited to have more xcx
ReplyDeleteLove the daffodils....so reminds me of home...in Somerset :-)
ReplyDeleteLemons freshly picked ....nothing better.
keep well
Amanda x
Lovely to hear from you, we had an abundance of daffs and snowdrops at the farm in Devon, really surprised they survived the journey. xcx
DeleteOoh, lovely daffodils and lemons. Lemon drizzle cake - definitely a good idea, as is sponge cake with butter cream icing mixed with lemon curd too - delicious! I think I need to make some lemony treats now...
ReplyDeleteBest wishes
Ellie
Ooh yes that sounds yummy, never thought of putting lemon curd in butter icing. We are not really cake people but both sound good. xcx
Deletesounds like just perfect all beign together.... the daffodils are lovely. I could do with some of those lemons... I think my tree has died. My favourite with a glut of lemons is the home made lemon cordial (it's quite good with gin too)
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Now that´s an idea, make the lemon cordial for gin, must give it a go. Chris rather likes the strawberry gin not sure it would go, worth a try though xcx
DeleteLove the daffodils, they are such a cheerful flower.
ReplyDeleteLemon cake is a favourite in our house … but as husband Eddie is diabetic we have a low carb version.
https://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.com/2016/05/lemon-cake-low-carb.html
Enjoy the rest of your week.
All the best Jan
Thank you for the link to the recipe, it´s good to have an alternative when you are restricted by certain ingredients.
DeleteThe week is disappearing way to quickly, but we are having fun xcx