I occasionally get some great mailers from General Mills and their family of brands. We received a back to school box of treats that not only had treats for the people in the house but also the dogs in the house. However, we do not have dogs so I did give my sister the free samples of the Blue Buffalo treats that were sent to me. We kept the Cascadian Farm samples and are looking forward to trying those. I am looking forward to the granola. It was nice that both Blue Buffalo and Cascadian Farm thought of me to send me some great free samples.
For lunch today we had Chopped BLT sandwiches. What is the difference between this and a regular BLT. Well, chopped sandwiches are becoming a trend on Tik Tok and I thought I’d give it a try. We had some bacon pieces from Imperfect Foods. They sell some bacon as the parts and pieces rather than strips. This is all the bacon that doesn’t look like nice neat strips. Allison cooked that up and then we put in some lettuce, one slice of onion and a tomato plus pickles. Normally Andy will only eat what he calls a BLP, Bacon Lettuce and Pickles but I told him to give this a try this time around. What we discovered was that this was a good way to enjoy a BLT but we should have mixed it all with some mayo to keep things together better. Next time we will do that. I also think that next time we do it on toast for a really good crunch.
I ended up running to Seabra three separate times today. Once to get city trash bags, once to get pickles for lunch and one last time to get butter because tonight Allison and Andy made a recipe from a new book that Andy bought for himself called Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook. Andy got it for the gnocchi recipe. So on the hottest day of the Summer Andy and Allison made gnocchi.
It was so hot tonight that there were thunder and lightning storms and our power went out. We spent some time out on the front porch and there was a rainbow and a nice sunset. It was also the coolest spot.
We played some Rummikub until it was too dark to see the tiles and then hung out on the porch. The power wasn’t going to come back until late so we went to bed early.
