Hello everyone, I am so excited to be on the screen porch making the meal plans with you today. The weather has been so nice and it is great  to be outdoors to enjoy it after such a long hot summer. We are busy trying to get the yard back in shape after the damage that was done during the drought. I am looking forward to the Farmers Market this week to find some new fall vegetables that will be fun to cook with. It is a little different here at the cottage with my husband being retired now. I find myself wondering when he will be going to work this week, it is really nice to have him here.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 606! It is so good to see you here today on such a beautiful fall day. I invite you to come on back to the patio today to just enjoy being outdoors together after a very long hot summer. We have some great features today from some very talented bloggers that I sure hope you will enjoy. I can't wait to see what you are bringing today so lets get the party started, I have saved you a place at the table!

Our Zucchini Coffee Cake is the perfect recipe to serve for a lovely brunch or afternoon tea. My husband thinks it is perfect for dessert after lunch. The recipe is filled with warm spices that are combined with a great batter of Zucchini and a base of buttermilk, oh my goodness, it is delicious. This is a very moist cake and the longer it sits the more moist it is. This recipe is a very special treat!

As I think of making a meal plan this week, it is a somewhat different process. As I check the weather, then take a look at our personal cottage calendar I get a better picture of when I want to  cook certain dishes. 

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 605, it is so good to see you here today! The Labor Day weekend at the lake was a great closure to summer 2022. I am excited to transition into fall, with wonderful fall recipes and décor. I have already started to transition the cottage, I replace my white slip covers with the brown ones, and now we have pumpkins, fall leaves and more. Just put on a pot of stew and it is complete. We have some great features this week from some very talented bloggers, that I hope you will enjoy! Thanks so much for coming to the party today, we have saved you a place at the table and can't wait to see what you will be sharing with us.

  We love to have a weekend brunch and sometimes friends will drop by to enjoy our latest recipes. Today I am happy to share with all of you our Bacon and Tomato Quiche. We have had great reviews from the weekend brunch group at the cottage. This is a delicious quiche with crisp bacon, cherry tomatoes and some great cheese to make a very flavorful slice of goodness!

We have to declare that the summer garden of 2022, was a fail. The drought here in our part of Texas lasted for over 60 days with not a drop of rain. No matter how much water we poured to our trees, plants and gardens they just could not withstand the 106 and 107 consistent temperatures. It has been a very sad garden harvest for this year. We even placed umbrellas around the gardens to try and save the plants, but they just didn't make it. Thank goodness we had a early spring harvest of green beans, cucumbers, onions, and tomatoes.

Hello everyone, hope you are having a great Labor Day Weekend! It is a busy weekend here at the lake as it is the last big weekend of the summer 2022! We had a really hot dry summer, but fall has started out with cooler temperatures and rain which we are so grateful for. Football season is upon us and the fall season will begin, although I yearn for just a bit more summer. I am happy to make my meal plans for the week with you today and hope we can come up with some meal plans that will inspire us all with some amazing recipes!

  Welcome To Full Plate Thursday and the 1st day of September! Come on in the cottage, we are actually getting some rain, which is a really good thing here. We have some special features this week from some very talented bloggers, I sure hope you will enjoy these features. We are looking forward to the weekend coming up which is really the last big weekend at the lake for the summer of 2022, wow what a summer and yet it is gone already. Hope all of you have a very special Labor Day Weekend, please stay safe and enjoy the holiday! I can't wait to see what you will be sharing at the party today so lets get the party started!

  I am combining some of my favorite recipes to bring this delicious casserole to the table. I always have some frozen chicken bags in my freezer or some left over chicken from the weekend. I have made quiet a bit of fresh basil pesto lately, so I will be using some of that. Putting it all together to make this fantastic casserole, it is already one of our favorites. My friend happened to stop by the cottage and got to be my taster for the recipe, she gave it a big thumbs up and 5 stars!

Hello everyone, it is so nice to sit on my screen porch once again and plan this weeks meal plan with you. We had over 8 inches of rain this past week and we are expecting more rain next week, it has been wonderful! The garden harvest for this summer is over, but we did decide to go ahead and plant a few products for a winter garden, we are so excited. We have a couple of weeks left in our summer so I am looking forward to having some yummy summer foods on the meal plan for this week.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, I am so happy you came to the party today! We are celebrating here at the cottage, it rained and not only did it rain we got almost 8 inches in just 2 days. Our drought has official ended, thank God! We have our Top Ten features with the most views this week from last weeks party, sure hope you enjoy them! I am excited to see what you will be sharing with us today at the party, come on in we have saved a seat at the table for you!

It is that time of the year when we have an abundant harvest of Zucchini and I love using it in different recipes. Zucchini is such a moist vegetable and really adds a lot of moisture to breads. This is a delicious recipe with Zucchini, pineapple and a hint of coconut, a very flavorful blend. This recipe will make 2 loaves and can be kept in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Hello everyone, big news today, it finally rained!!We are so grateful to get some rain, and looks like we will be getting more next week. Meal plans this week  are going to send me to the recipe box to pull out some of our old favorites for late summer rainy days. Now that we have some rain we will be on going with our winter garden and we are excited to continue on with the garden plans. I am off to the super market to get some of my meat for next week, a buy one and get another for a penny. I am always excited to find a great price for a food product to use in my meal plan for the week.