Dinner's Ready!

My mom brought home a recipe from Argentina...and I love it.  Whenever I am yearning for a comfort food -- this is what I make.

It's translated Easter Pie, not sure how to spell it in Argentinian Spanish....I know it starts with Torte.  :)

So, I start by making a baking powder biscuit base.  And putting it into the greased base of a 13x9 glass pan.  Into the oven at 350 degrees.

Then, I boil eggs.

 

I grated cheese....

 

 

 

 

I microwave the spinach from frozen.

And then I cover the baking powder biscuit base with tomato sauce.  And then I cover it with spinach.  Today, I used frozen chopped spinach, but I have used fresh before.

Then, I mash the hard boiled eggs and then I cover the previous layers with the eggs.

And then I cover it all with cheese, literally whatever cheese I have in the house, today it was cheddar.

 

Then it goes back into the oven at 350 until the cheese melts and the casserole reheats.  The bonus to this is that it's already mostly warm!

The Horie Family Farm...whatev.

So this is the farm post.  After this years success, we will be doing this again, and probably on a larger scale next year.

We tried to grow potatoes this year.  When I say try, I mean it.  I bought 3 1/2 oak barrels and filled them with dirt.  We filled 2 with tomatoes and the last with potatoes.

Here was our first little potato.  He kinda rose to the top, so I took him out.

 

Here's our batch of potatoes.

Odd shapes and sizes.....only an amateur farmer could love!

 

 

Our tomatoes looked like this:

 

 

We rescued this plant from Canadian Tire.  I went in a week before and the plant was $35.99.  I thought, not in my lifetime....The following week, I went back the plants were nearly dead at now $6.99.  More like it.  So, I took it home, replanted it and started lovingly taking care of it.

 

 

During the summer we had ourselves a bounty of fresh tomatoes:

 

 

It was awesome to have all this fresh produce.  So much so I shared it with my coworkers:

 

 

The little cricket is an addition from my boss, she went to a candy store in Chemanius and brought us flavoured crickets....along with other candy from our childhood!

 

 

Oh and,

 

We also grew blueberries.  I've always wanted to grow blueberries, they didn't like the Kelowna weather much.