And so I did what I always do when feeling stressed... I cooked! Sunday all the family except Ben were here, including my Mum and Dad so we had a Father's Day meal for nine of us.
A red onion, spinach (from the garden) and feta tart.
Chicken braised with lemon, garlic and thyme (from the garden)
A middle eastern taboulleh salad (mint and parsley from the garden)
Potato and horseradish salad with radish and chives (both from the garden)
Herb (from the garden) and Garlic bread
And a blueberry and peach cobbler... which involved absolutely nothing from the garden!Maybe this week I'll get some embroidery done!
Police at the door during hours in which you are normally asleep is one of those universal stomach dropping moments - we always fear the worst. I am happy your news was not like that !
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, the first paragraph made my blood run cold. Thank goodness he's OK.
ReplyDeleteI hope there was a large glass of red in with all that food!
oh that is every mothers' nightmare - i'm so glad he's alright. your cooking looks lovely and very tasty!!! I'm with Dotty about the wine!!!!
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Blimey - I wished I lived next door to YOU!! I'd be over the fence after one sniff of this little lot .........
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LOVE STITCHING RED
Oh Gina! What a horrifying start to the weekend. Thank God Joe was ok!
ReplyDeleteYour cooking therapy however looks and sounds gorgeous!
Lucy xxxx
I'm so relieved that Joe is OK - that knock on the door is everyone's worst nightmare. I need a strong cup of tea just thinking about how you must have felt!!!
ReplyDeleteThe food looks amazing - a perfect selection of dishes as far as I'm concerned.
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Thank goodness your son was alright. Our son did something similar a few years ago but because he is a policeman and an 'old' married man, we didn't have his colleagues waking us up in the small hours. Your lunch looked delicious and I am drooling especially as I have recently been advised to lose some weight. I can survive without sweet things, but the fact that so many savoury delights are packed with calories is most unfair!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to hear Joe is ok.
ReplyDeleteThat Father's Day spread looked (and I'm sure, tasted) delicious.
I certainly recognised the stomach dropping feeling as I read your piece. But oh, the food that followed! Taboulleh.... love it.... and your potato salad.... all so beautifully cooked. x
ReplyDeleteJoe, eh? Who'd be his mother? But putting a positive spin on it, it was around 4pm in Vancouver so you would have been okay for a G&T.
ReplyDeleteoh dear what a terrible start to the weekend... I'm glad he was ok.. so that you can kill him when he has recovered sufficently!
ReplyDeletethe food looks fabulous though.. especially that your grew so much of it... we moved house last year and had to leave my lovely bigish green house behind, i has small plastic temorary one now and its just hideous and i really don't feel much like pottering around in it to tend to my little tomato plants.
I'm so pleased he's okay. Glad to see it didn't totally ruin your weekend. The house must of smelt lovely on Sunday with all that cooking.I wouldn't know where to start. Keep smiling :-)
ReplyDeleteThank goodness all was Ok. that food looked like just the tonic after the fright.
ReplyDeleteI can understand your need to soothe your self with cooking, I think a little stitching might completely restore your equilibrium! So relieved no real harm was done. x
ReplyDeleteAre you breathing evenly again yet? Glad to hear Joe is fine - oh the immortality of youth!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad for you that Joe is all right. Cars can be replaced but not sons. It looks as though you had a wonderful feast yesterday and lovely to have the family around you.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it about young men and thinking they are invincible? My partner sometimes tells me stories from when he first passed his test that makes me glad I didn't know him back then. As it is, I sometimes sit with my foot on the imaginary brake pedal. Glad to hear your Joe's okay.
ReplyDeleteThe food pictures, my stomach just rumbles!
Scary stuff, Glad joe is ok. Delicious looking feast. Jane x
ReplyDeleteThat's horrible, and my worst fear. Who'd be a parent, I used to worry when Rachel came home on the train now she drives I worry just the same but about different things! Still at least Joe's ok and a car is only a thing and that can be replaced! The food looked lovely.
ReplyDeleteOh Gina, so glad Joe's ok. I've experienced that knock a long time ago (and unfortunately not with the same result) so I expect you'll feel a bit wobbly for a few days. Kirsty starts her driving lessons on staurday - one more worry to add to the list!
ReplyDeleteOh heavens Gina!! A phone call from A&E is bad enough but a knock at the door must be terrifying. So glad to hear Joe is ok - hope you gave him plenty of time on the naughty step for the fright he gave you!!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had quite a shock, judging by the enormous quantity of gorgeous food you whipped up!
Glad your weekend turned out well after such an horrendous start :-)
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Boys!
ReplyDeleteBut on the upside thanks for the inspiration for food. I am 'hosting' a well known embroiderer for our group this week and her husband and couldn't think what to cook. I will do cous cous with mint and parsley..from the supermarket..etc etc. looks great.
Blimey Gina, that must have been a really scary moment. Thank goodness Joe is OK.
ReplyDeleteYour Sunday feast looks fab. Drool.
Monda
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Oh Gina! How scary to have police knocking at your front door. Am relieved that Joe is OK.
ReplyDeleteAnd your food looks exquisite. Must be very satisfying to eat food from goodies from your own garden.
Yummmmm.....
So glad to hear he was alright after the initial shock - kids eh? x
ReplyDeleteYes, these are the trying times with these boys, aren't they? I just keep saying...if we can get them safely past these young adult years. I feel your pain! I love your strategy for soothing the pain too -- nothing like tons of good home cooking to help!
ReplyDeleteOh Gina, I really understand and am so happy for you that it's all o.k. I had the dreaded knock on the door that my daughter had been knocked down when she was 13, I still go sick and cold thinking about it, she too was o.k. and I am so thankful.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that your son was ok. When the police knocked on my door early one Sunday morning, it was to tell me that my son had been killed- my nightmare came true!
ReplyDeleteBlimey Gina. How awful for all of you. Hope all is well now and you get to relax a bit. he food looks just gorgeous x
ReplyDeleteglad that joe is ok... what a shock for you all.
ReplyDeleteyour sunday meal looks delicious and so good to use so much produce from the garden.
I've already had one "police at the door" experience quite recently! I'm really glad that your Joe is fine. xx
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness. I'm just catching up on your posts now. I'm so glad he's okay. K x
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