6th of July

Today is my mother's birthday. She would have been 95.
Happy birthday, Nanay. I love you and miss you so much!
Thank you for teaching me so many good things!
Thank you.
Tsup!

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Eat This!

Too lazy to bake a crust for a fruit tart. Besides, it's too hot to turn on the oven.

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Fourth of July

Today we are celebrating the U.S. Independence Day!

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We Had Overripe Bananas...

so I was kindly requested to bake banana nut bread.

Aren't they pretty? They taste good too.
(My phone camera is not bad either :))

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The Power Of Plants

I have been playing with my phone camera and eating my subjects!!! 

I hope you are enjoying your summer. 

Tsup!

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Tomater fra sønnen min hage.

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Brunch!!!

Scrambled eggs and Garlic fried rice served with slices of fruits on an Evergreen Fiesta plate.

My son steamed a pot of brown rice the other day. We did not eat it. Throwing it away would be  wasteful, but I am not fond of most leftover foods (except leftover cake, lasagna, spaghetti or Thanksgiving dinner). I asked my husband if he wanted some garlic fried rice and scrambled eggs. I forgot to buy onions and tomatoes from the grocery store yesterday, so I went out to my son's vegetable garden and harvested the rest of the plant ingredients that I needed.

Happy Weekend!

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Guinisa nga Talong

I love organic gardening. Earlier this afternoon, my son gave me three oriental eggplants from his garden.  I decided to saute' them. This is Guinisa nga Talong. It is a tasty aromatic dish. The combination of the olive oil-sautéed garlic, onions, and tomatoes is absorbed by the eggplant. It will tickle your palate. Ingredients: 3 small to medium-sized eggplants, ripe tomatoes, onions, fresh garlic cloves, water, olive oil, garlic powder, Mrs. Dash salt-free seasoning blend. Cooking time: 20 minutes. Soften the sliced eggplants in water; combine garlic, onions and tomatoes; add olive oil; saute' until onions are translucent; add Mrs. Dash and garlic powder to taste. You may add salt if you so desire. 

 

 

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A Personal Post and Sharing A Secret

Good morning! This is a very personal post today. What do you think about before you go to bed? What do you look like when you wake up in the morning and what do you think about first thing in the morning? I will address these questions and present images. Please forgive me. Some of these images may prove torturous for some but most especially for me.

If you have been following my blog for a while now, you will know that I oil paint and draw in pen and ink. You may also know about other things. I love trees, especially oak. I also love skies and clouds.

I am okay. No makeup!!! Just a little surgery where they cut my gums and exposed my... okay okay okay! Too much information. Hahahah. Right: Last night, showing off my new prescription RayBan glasses to my best friend and sisters and my swollen cheek. Left: This morning greeting Daisy and Weezy and my cheek still swollen. My oral dental surgery is making me think of one thing... FOOD!!! I am so hungry.

Last night I was chatting with my best friend while I was in the kitchen surrounded by desserts like apple coffee cake, blueberry cake, apple turnovers; a loaf of artisan country wheat loaf, thin bagels, a bag of tortilla triangles, a box of thin crisps...all of which I cannot eat because...I have to eat what toothless people eat: foods that do not require chewing. I almost gave in. Maybe if I chew on the unaffected side...but then I have to do my tooth brushing procedures again and it takes half an hour...

I tortured myself by sending photos of food to my friend and in turn she said I was torturing her because she started thinking about food. Why is it that I do not think about food when I can eat it and I think about it when I can't have it? That is the ultimate punishment for the obsessive!!! Getting stuck on something!!! Because I am rather sadistic, (oh do you know that the Marquis de Sade and I share the same birthday?) I am posting a few food photographs today. Please be observant. I will share a secret at the end of this post. Hahahaha!

This is what I thought about last night and this morning. I cannot eat these foods:

I can only eat these kinds of food:

HAHAHAHAHA! Okay, the cake is not supposed to be there. I just used that photo for visual balance.

In 2007, I used these still life painting exercises as precursors to the paintings I intended to do to get me inspired. The title of my blog is Ces And Her Dishes because when I started blogging in 2006, I wanted to blog about my passion for Fiesta dishes, but I think I am over that now. I still love Fiesta dishes but I don't collect every color anymore. The reason: I have no more room in my china, servers and cabinets. These days, I just give Fiesta dishes to people I love.

I only drink coffee from Fiesta mugs. I used to match the coffee mug with the color of my my pyjamas. HAHAHAHA!

Still life paintings in Oil on Canvas.

Today is Saturday. I am on call!!!

P.S. To all my friends and family and my young friends who read my blog, thank you!!! I appreciate your time and effort. Thank you for your feedback about my drawings and paintings. Oftentimes, the complimentary comments or personal messages that inspire and tickle me the most are those given to me by the young people. I am so tickled that teenagers follow my blog. I love that so much! Keep up the good work guys and I promise, I will not proselytize or lecture. Ugh! That would be pure torture.