The Weekend Recipes and Homespun Christmas Plans....

Hello everyone.. 

Hope you all had an awesome weekend.. 

We are having our January thaw here in Eastern Canada.. 

Melting going on everywhere.. 

Made for a great weekend.. 

The weather is so mild that there is a fog...

Very pretty, actually.. 

Yesterday we had some great church.. 

Good teaching, preaching and fellowship.. 

God is so good... 

Then on Saturday our daughter and husband picked us up and took us to the city.. 

The grandsons were on the hill so there were just the four of us.. 

We decided to try out a new Grill they just built in Moncton.. 

It is a lovely restaurant.. 

We really enjoyed their food.. 

Wonderful appetizers.. 

Med bread with 4 different dips... 

And calamari.... Delicious.. 

I was excited to see if I could make something the same.. 

So today I made some Naan bread but did not get the lovely color that was on theirs.. 

I found other recipes after that tell you to spread butter and broil.. 

I think I need to try it again but Terry said it tasted good.. 

I only made 2 of the dips.. 

Olive Tapenade ...   and Aioli...

They were good!!

TAPENADE RECIPE... HERE

AIOLI RECIPE.. HERE

NAAN BREAD RECIPE ...HERE

This would be lovely to serve to company.. 

They also had salsa and a smoked salmon dip which would be easy to do..

For lunch today we had a homemade Irish Stew.. 

So needless to say we did not require much supper.. 

The bread thing was nice for a change.. 

Shonda and I discussed our Homespun Christmas plan.. 

I thought I would share it with you all in case any of you would like to give it a try, also.. 

Just the two of us are doing it..

 This is the first try so we will work out the kinks.. smile.. 

We are going to spend $50- $60.00 limit on each other.. 

Everything will be bought at Thrift stores or yard sales, homemade or makeovers.. 

We will only spend the limit on the gift and the supplies it takes to remake the gift.. 

We both decided we do not want any more snowmen.. smile.. 

We will start right away..... 

This is a redo idea that I did before Christmas as you recall.. 
Shonda loved this.. 

A $2.50  Santa from the Salvation Army turned into this.. 

So, this would end up costing about $5.00...  

The only cost was the beard... 

Some ideas that I can think of are.. 

Doll re dos, tablecloth ideas, wood items redone and so on..

I gave her some coffee spoons and an angora shawl for Christmas that I found at Thrift.. She like those.. 

Maybe a second hand scarf or such.. 

We both like primitive so it should be easy.. smile..

If any of you would like to do this with your daughter or friend just leave me a note and perhaps we can exchange some ideas as to what we are doing throughout the year.. 

OK? 

We could pick a day each month and tell some of our ideas... 

Pinterest will come in handy doing this, I am sure... 

Well, this is all for tonight my dears.. 

Thanks so much for dropping by and welcome to the new friends who have signed up for the blog.. 

Love having you.. 

Take care and I look forward to hearing from you all.. 

Blessings.. 

LINKED TO..HOMESTEAD BARN HOP