Radish Pickle

When I was shopping last month, I picked up a giant radish that was over a foot long.

I thought it might make some interesting pickled radish.

I had never made pickled radish before, but I knew that if they turned out as tasty as my pickled ginger, they would be good.

I started by slicing the radish very thinly.

After gathering my ingredients together, I mixed equal amounts of sugar and rice vinegar together.

To this, I added about a quarter of a cup of the finely julienned fresh ginger that I'd bottled a couple of months ago, and then heated this mixture to boiling point in the microwave.

In the meantime, I gently stuffed my sliced radish into a jar and then poured the hot vinegar mixture over them.

And voila, I had pickled radish which tastes really, really good and looks pretty, too.






































The red from the skin of the radish turned the pickling liquid a beautiful coral colour.

I made this pickled radish about a month ago, and the slices of radish are still as crisp as the day I pickled them.

Margarita Pie Recipe

Here is the recipe for Sharon's Margarita Pie that we had for dessert on Christmas day.

Margarita Pie

A bit of citrus heaven.

½ cup melted butter

¼ cup sugar

1 ¼ cup crushed pretzels

1 can sweetened condensed milk

zest of 1 large lime or 2 or 3 small ones

1/3 cup lime juice

1 tbsp tequila

1 tbsp triple sec

4 drops green food colouring (optional) *

1 cup heavy cream, whipped

Combine butter, sugar and crushed pretzels.  Press into the bottom of a buttered 9” pie plate.  Freeze.  In a bowl, combine condensed milk, fresh lime juice, tequila, triple sec and food colouring.  Gently fold in the whipped cream.    Freeze 4 hours before serving.  Slice into wedges and serve.

* If you don’t use food colouring, add 1 tsp lime zest to the mixture and sprinkle additional zest over the pie for colour.

Comfy Cape Cod Chairs

Cape Cod chairs, also known as Adirondack chairs, provide great comfort.   We saw these chairs everywhere we travelled during our trip to the Maritimes and New England.



The chairs have a classic design with curved backs and rolled over seat fronts.






































Another great feature of these chairs is their wide arms which are perfect for resting your book and drink on.



Nearly every house we saw on the coast of Maine and Cape Cod had Cape Cod chairs and/or benches somewhere in their yards.



Some were simple chairs & benches that had been left to weather.





















While others were painted bright, cheerful colours.

And some were a little more fanciful than others.

Then there were the chairs and benches that weren't exactly true traditional Cape Cod.
























But, all these chairs, whether true Cape Cod or not, said "Welcome, take a seat and rest a while".

Back in Canada, we have these very comfortable, wooden chairs on our seaside deck.

And a few other similar wooden chairs are perched, here and there, overlooking our magnificent stretch of beach.

These cheery, bright red, wooden chairs also provide comfortable, front row seats for watching all the activity that takes place in the vibrant estuary, which is across the street from us, back home. 

Majestic Mount Arrowsmith, with its snow tipped peaks, is a stunning backdrop for this ever changing estuary that is always brimming with life.

And here in Mexico, we have a few plastic chairs that are every bit as comfortable as the traditional, wooden Adirondack or Cape Cod chairs.

They also provide comfortable seating for just relaxing and taking in all the spectacular vistas that we are fortunate to see everyday from Casa Que Sera.