Our First Tag!!!

    Just A Little Tag

We have decided to begin our tag journey! So we are borrowing this tag from dear Eva from coffee, classics and craziness! Katherine's answers will be in RED and Grace's will be in BLUE.

~ The Questions ~

1. Do you have a favorite fictional couple? (if so why do you like them?) There are too many to choose from! Maybe between Prince Henry and Danielle from Ever After, Christine and Raoul from The Phantom Of The Opera and Thomas and Kathrine from Wings of Dawn/ I don't think I have a favorite :)

      2. If you could have any animal (safely) as a pet, what would it be? A horse or a Standard Poodle              or a dolphin/ A cat or dog - I know I'm really boring, aren't I?

     3.  You get to live in Middle Earth,what race are you a member of? Never read the books or                         watched the movies so I have no idea/ I've never read or watched any of the books or movies.

     4.  In an ideal situation ( you don't have to worry about living too far from family or financial                      concern) where would you live? (It can be fictional) Ireland or Scotland or England/ In a place              where all my favorite people have immigrated!

     5.  Do you have a favorite 'vintage' movie? (As in, filmed before 1960.) What is it? Casablanca/                  Hmmm....I don't think I can choose a favorite, but to name a few, I like Pot O' Gold, It                            Happened One Night, and Meet Me in St. Louis.

     6.  When you were a little kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Among other things an            actress on the stage!/ I believe I kept changing my mind, but I think a teacher was among them.

    7.  You can be 'the best' at any sport (e.g gymnastics, synchronized swimming, curling ect.) What do           you choose? Is Dancing a sport?/ Ice Skating
     

   8.   List three things you wish people knew about you, but will never ask. (Or just three random                   things. ;)) #1- I fantasize of acting on Broadway #2- My real name among other things comes                 from a plant that is a cure for insanity #3- I can do adequate impersonations of an Opera singer,             male or female, and Louis Armstrong singing "What a Wonderful World"/ Frequently, it                         happens that I resist an idea to do something, but when I get there and do it, I enjoy myself; I                 LOVE writing plays and planning the productions; Grace and I speak the same language!

   9.   Share a favorite quote! "I would challenge you to a war of wits, but I see you are unarmed"                   William Shakespeare/  'Miss Elliot, I can bear this no longer. You pierce my soul. I'm half agony,           half hope. Unjust I may have been. Weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. I offer             myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight years             ago.'  (etc, etc, etc;)  Captain Wentworth, Persuasion, 2007

     Mamma, and us girls usually plan the menu for the week's meals at the beginning of the week, and then cook the bulk of them on Monday and Tuesday.   So today, you guessed it - we cooked!  We thought it might be fun to do a weekly post on what's cooking at Green Gables, so here is the first one.  It is a bit discombobulated since we've tried to get this out for two weeks, so there will be some dishes from last week and this week.   If you see anything you'd like to try, then just leave a comment below asking for the recipe, and we will be glad to share it with you!  But, I will be honest....some are like family favorites, and we will have to INSIST you try them!  :)

I got these cookbooks from the library and wanted to choose recipes for the week from them, but did we?  No, of course not!  Alas....

Here is what we did make:

Almond Flour Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Eggplant Parmesan minus the Parmesan (Sorry, you just got the slicing picture)

Chocolate Cake

Toffee

Tomato Quiche (we double out recipes and put it into 9x13 pans)

And of course when you cook, you make tons of
dishes...maybe we should just stop eating?


We also made Mexican Stuffed Butternut Squash... and forgot to take a picture, but LET ME TELL YOU - it is GOOD!!  If you don't ask for this recipe, you will be missing out on the chance of a lifetime....in food that is!  :)

When Grace and I get cooking in the kitchen, you can pretty much count on there being music serenading us whilst we work.  Anastasia, Phantom of the Opera, Tango Music (yes, I said Tango Music), The Pirate Queen , etc.  And then there are the moments when we burst into dance... we attempt to make kitchen duties a fun, dramatic experience whenever possible :)

Pray tell us if you like to cook, and what your habits are in the kitchen!  :)               

Till we meet again,

Cheers

Katherine & Grace  

P.S. The French phrase in the header means menu of the week!  :) 

P.P.S We are going to attempt to make this a regular post that will come out each Wednesday!

P.P.P.S Also, we just wanted to mention that the above soundtracks do have some content that Grace and I have chosen to overlook, mute or skip, while enjoying the rest, as the good outweighs the bad.

~ Happenings: Rain, Books and Music ~

 
  It has been raining here for the past week... and heavy rain. My sister and I love rain as much as the next person and just this morning on our way out to the barn we were singing "Singing in the Rain" complete with umbrella trick attempts! All the creeks and streams are rushing and gushing and flooding our field and blocking our friend's driveways! At the moment our newly dug out pond is overflowing and when the deluge finally stops, we have to go rescue our canoe and hunt for the paddles. This is usually done by flipping our tow-able inner tube upside down (so we "don't get wet") and paddling around in circles with the extra paddle to eventually get in the vicinity of the canoe, while the other sister waits pensively on the bank screaming every so often that something moved in the water that could be a snake! Yesterday, my sister Katherine, Mamma (said in an English accent), and myself were driving in our car and, over the hammer of the rain, were attempting to translate a French song into English so we could know what in the world he was saying. Dearest Mamma took French in high school and over the years attempted to teach us children, but she is still our "Dictionary", so we were quizzing her and annoying her with my mispronunciation. I tend to give a harsher ending to the words, more like German or Russian, when French is very light and flowy. Hast thou any thoughts on rain, snakes and French songs in general?

     On the subject of books...I love to read. Period and full stop! At the moment I am reading "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens because even though I have read it twice, during a recentish conversation with a friend on the subject, I found I had no idea what she was talking about. I had no idea it was a love story and only remembered the first and last lines, which I proudly quoted to my friend only to have her quote back a passage or two more! So far I am enjoying it immensely. On my shelf I have two other books awaiting readage and we went to the Library yesterday so now there are five and I am still scouring blogs for more book recommendations because you know you can never have too many books waiting for your perusal, so if you have any good recommendations, send them my way! Katherine also enjoys books, though takes her time with each book, savoring it, while I devour them and then am sad it's over. She is in the clutches of "When Joy Came to Stay" by Karen Kingsburry and the three of us ladies have a never ending pile of read-alouds to get to eventually if someone (me) would stop picking out audio books from the Library every time we go. One thing is for certain, we shall never run out so let's hope one of us doesn't get married before the stack has diminished 'cause then we really will never get to them! Which novels grasp you in their merciless clutches never to let you go... till you finish the book that is?

     In the house of Green Gables you will pretty much always hear music being played. Last week during our spring cleaning the strains of Tango music accompanied the sight of awkward Tango attempts! As I write, my sister, Mother and I are being serenaded by Italian Opera! For myself, music helps me think; I can concentrate on the melody instead of the chaos of the house and from there my thoughts wander all over. The thoughts vary depending on what the genre is - i.e. when I listen to classical music it makes me feel light and springy and helps me study, when I listen to Celtic music it has an energizing effect that helps me to work hard.... or want to go fight the English... or want to run along in a grassy expanse singing "Star of the County Down"! Dearest Mamma's favorite saying is "Silence is Golden" and many a time when Katherine and I are loudly singing along with Les Miserables or Oklahoma or anything else, she moves down to her laboratory (the down cellar kitchen), or the sewing room and does not emerge for some time. Papa says that the French music we play (to inspire food prep), makes him anxious! His tastes lie more in the range of John Denver, *all pause as Puccini Sings the last line of Nesum Dorma*, and the Jersey Boys. I have fond memories of Papa "Swing dancing" across the living room singing "Cheri" in a high pitched voice! Though he doesn't like Elvis, when we went to visit Richard of The Bobby Dazzler last year, we had an-in-the-car mini Elvis concert complete with impressions from Richard and Papa! Who soothes your soul, stirs up your inner opera, or simply inspires you?

So long, farewell...

Grace

The Family Tree

The Family Tree

By Katherine

 For the sake of protecting identities (and to have fun), Grace and I have decided to refer to ourselves and anyone else in our blog by a pseudonym.  We also won't be posting any pictures of ourselves or family.  Therefore we will help set the scene with introducing our family to you.

Well, you already know my sister and I are Katherine & Grace, but what you don't know is that we come from a family of five children in all, with Grace being the baby of the family, and I her nursemaid!  Ha! Just kidding!  Jane is the eldest, Richard is second oldest, Sherlock comes next, followed by me, and ending with Grace.

~ Papa & Mama ~

reside at

Green Gables

with their remaining two daughters:

Yours Truly

and

Grace


~ Jane & Warren ~

reside at

Sunset Cottage

and have 3 children:

Mr. Roester

Mr. Munchkin

and

Little Bee

~ Richard ~

resides at

The Bobby Dazzler

and has two girls:

Cossette

and

Evelyn

~ Sherlock & Chanel ~

reside at

Lochfield House

and have two children:

Blue

and

Little Bite

  Well, that's our family tree!

Till next time......

Katherine