Coconut Coated Salmon Fillets and Potato Kugel



Coconut Crusted Salmon Fillets

1 1/2 cups Unsweetened Coconut

Salt and Pepper to taste

4 boneless Salmon Fillets

Mango Chutney

Put Coconut into Ziploc bag, add Salmon fillets and shake to coat well. Put coated Salmon onto Parchment lined baking pan.

Sprinkle liberally with Salt and Fresh Ground Pepper.

Bake at 375 degree oven for 10 minutes or until fish is golden brown and flakes easily.

Serve fillets with Mango Chutney.

Coated with Unsweetened Coconut and Salt and Pepper and ready for the oven!!

Potato Kugel

I have always loved Potato Pancakes and over this past Christmas, discovered Kugel when I didn't want to be a slave over the stove and rather spend the time visiting while dinner cooked.

3 Russet Potatoes, grated and squeezed to remain moisture

1 finely chopped Onion (I used a big handful of chives from my garden)

5 large Cloves Garlic, grated

1 egg, beaten

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1/4 Cup Olive Oil

1/4 Cup Flour

1 tsp Salt

1/2 Tsp Pepper

Coat Glass baking dish with layer of Olive Oil. Mix all ingredients well and spread out into an even layer in the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle with Paprika.

Bake in 375 degree oven for 45 minutes until browned and bubbly and cooked through.

Serve with Sour Cream and chopped Chives.

Tastes like Potato Pancakes without the fuss!

Serve with a nice Green Salad and dinner is served!

Enjoy your day!!

Some of this, Some of that, Cleaning up the files!

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We went a while back to visit a Community Garden and here are a few of the pictures I took while there.

Time to gather up fallen leaves and make nests for coming babies.

Old Push style Lawnmower makes a good garden ornament as well.

Unusual Garden fence.

Deadfall branches repurposed to make garden fences.

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Skies reflected in rainwater, garden sheds and supplies.

Garden Gate Locks

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Garden season is on the doorstep and I am looking forward to exploring and capturing lots of photos from these wonderful places!

Happy Spring!!

I Have a Heart or Two

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Have you ever carved yours and your lovers name in a heart on a tree? There are a few people here who did just that!

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I was taking some photos of birds and had leaned up  against these tree trunks without noticing the carvings of hearts and initials in the tree bark. When I moved away from that spot I noticed these!

The hearts and initials added some more rough textures to the already rough surfaces of the tree bark.

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Hearts for your Hearts Delight!

A Little of This and A Little of That

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Do any of you have one of those folders on your computer that contains all the photos you have taken and prepared to go on your blog, but they never quite made it there?

I have one and here are some of the photos that are in that folder that I am sharing today. Its time to clean up that folder a bit and share some of the photos of Winter I have taken and make room for Spring!

My hubby and I went to visit our Community Garden on a nice sunny day and found these old dried up Artichoke Heads still on thier woody stalks. I thought they looked like ancient flowers, and are beautiful even though they never made it to anyone's dinner plate!

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We found these Purple berries before Christmas on a Shopping trip. We went on a Craft crawl to all sorts of different crafting stores, and outside one of these stores, we found a large bush covered with these purple berries. We thought it was so cool to see this wonderful splash of colour in the middle of winter!

I am continuously teaching myself about adding Textures to my photos and these are examples of that!

These thistles are a wonderful Earth colour! I would paint walls in my house these colours, they are so gorgeous!

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Some of these dried brown leaves still cling to the bare limbs of Trees, and look wonderful contrasted against a blue sky!

Daylight Savings happens this coming weekend, and I am very happy about that. Another hour of sunlight in the evenings, what could be nicer! All winter I go to work in the dark, and come home as it gets dark. I feel light deprived! So I love Daylight Savings and more of the light!

Have a great weekend, everyone!!

Snowy Textures



Just by itself, a Monkey tree has a lot of texture. With the added snow resting on its branches it adds another level of texture to the tree.

When we were kids, we used to watch for Monkey trees in someone's yard, and seeing one would punch the nearest person on the arm and yell "Monkey Tree, no punch back!"

Did you ever play that game? It made some of the drives we took go a little quicker when we had something else to focus on. And if you were lucky you got to punch your brother or sister on the arm without getting into trouble!

Did you know that Monkey trees are so named because they are the only tree a Monkey is unable to climb?