Bubble. All that food looks scrumptious. Did you make it all? Wonder if Don has lost weight since he come home. Maybe he still is making some of what you taught him.

Jeanne, yes it is all "home made" and my festivity menu. I don't make those quantities normally!

Don is a good cook too and loves to try new recipes.  He is addicted to food TV programs and subscribes to some cooking newsletters too.

No one else is going to share food with us? I'll say "bad...."!

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Something Larry and I enjoy every day.

Jean, that cone looks delicious and I'd eat one even on such a dreary day as we're having.

Mary Ann

Is that  French vanilla ice cream?  My favorite  together with mocha.

Mary Ann, you always describe your great selection when going for breakfast; what about showing us

Jean, tough looking at that cone when on a low carb diet.

Jack, what about this home made cheese cake?

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Or this home made bread?  (by a friend)

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Bubble, your photos look good enough to eat.

It is hard to take a picture when all I have is my billfold and dark glasses.  Oh, and my house keys.  My purse is heavy and that is where my camera resides. 

The wrap is made with an 8" tortilla and after they roll it up, they cut it in half.  They put the two pieces perpendicular to each other and put a long toothpick with a "cap" on it through both pieces to hold them together.  The veggies were red and green peppers, white onion and I don't remember what else.  So put on your thinking cap and try to imagine the above in color.

Mary Ann

Bubble, sorry but no bread, cake etc. Eat meat, cheese, fish and salad, eggs and bacon.   Just back from 4 Gin and tonic, zero carbs.   If I had more than 4 I would not stay awake for rest of the evening.

Bubble, I like cheesecake but I also would like that homemade bread.  Yum!  We always have Haagen-Daz vanilla as it is simple with only 5 natural (fattening) ingredients.  Vanilla ice cream is about the only dessert my husband will eat.

Mary Ann, we just finished our ice cream cones while watching a TV mystery program.  Both were good.

Jack. I would substitute bread for those gin ‘n tonics.  I’ve got to have a few carbs.

Cheese cake, now your talking...

I have never been a lover of ice cream...

FlaJean.  Half your luck. Nothing nicer than a vanilla cone ice cream unless it is one covered in milk chocolate.   Being on a diet......I can dream.

No one cooking?  What about posting an egg in an eggcup then!   ;DSurely you have an egg in the house?/b]

Bubble, sorry but I do so little cooking and what I do cook would not make a very good photo   I decided to post my morning breakfast.   Bran with lots of strawberries and a mug of Coffee (always have two cups)

Show me a Photo from your travels, even old trips. 

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Very healthy   You still have strawberries?  Here they are long gone and we are at the end of the mangoes season too. Plenty avocado now and all the citrus.

Travels?  Sterling idea.  I hope we'll see many entries.

Bubble, I just finished my second cup of coffee and was ready to post a photo in the other discussion.  Thought instead I would post if here.  This is my daily walk, and yesterday the sun came out just long enough to show some fall color.  Hope everyone will consider a post of their real travels.

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Bubble, we can buy strawberries all year round.  Our food comes from various places, not only California, but other countries, for instance, South America.  The food isn't as tasty as local varieties in season, but they are available.  I miss our homegrown strawberries but our stores no longer handle them, selling California berries instead.  Produce is shipped before its prime and that is why it doesn't taste as good as home grown, but in winter it is what is available.  It beats canning fruits and vegetables in the summer as my mother used to do.

Mary Ann

I can't imagine that canned strawberry would be good either.
I like having the season's fruit available as it is here, we have very little or no import of fresh produce. Meat yes, cheese and pasta yes, and of course all the cans, sauces, wines, etc.  Vodka is a big favorite with our new Russian immigrants.

Travel. I'll introduce you to some views from Brussels

Typical Street
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Royal Theater
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Open Market
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Restaurants Street
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Motta Ice cream with meringue
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Symbol of Belgian Cote d"Or chocolate
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Bubble, since I won't be able to get to Brussels, your pictures are a good way to travel.

Mary Ann

Bubble thanks for the trip around Brussels, show us more.

Now about the strawberries, I took a short trip to the frig, wanted to check on the source of my strawberries.   They came from California, do not know how many more are coming, but I got three containers like shown here, a total of 3 pounds for $5.00, a real bargain and hope they keep coming.  Did not retouch the photo, this is right out of the camera. 

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Bubble,  I have to agree with Mary Ann and Jack......  we also can get strawberries year round where I live also.  And, they don't  taste as good as the local homegrown ones we get in the summertime.  We have several farms in my area, where you can go and pick your own fruit......  strawberries, apples that I do know of.  I prefer the small berries as I have always found the larger ones tend to be kind of hollow inside. 

I have never seen canned strawberries, but you can always get frozen ones.  Almost any kind of fruit can be bought frozen here.  And, I do buy frozen fruit sometimes. 

There is a company in the US called Schwan's Frozen Foods.  They deliver all kinds of frozen food right to your door.  Some things are a little expensive, but I do order from them quite often.  They deliver every 2 weeks where I live and I get the most delicious big black cherries from them.  They have all different kinds of meat, fish, seafood and chicken.  I don't always get more than 1 or 2 items as most of their things are more expensive than the grocery stores.  And, I do get ice cream and last week, I got a delicious pumpkin pie, which is a seasonal item.  That I had to bake.  But, most of the other things ,  you cook from their frozen state. Some things are already cooked and you just have to heat them up. 

I, too, also enjoyed "traveling" around Brussels.  That is one place that I would have liked to see.  Specially for all the pretty lace that they make and of course, the chocolate.  My son and DIL have been there and they brought me some chocolate candy from there and a small lace centerpiece.  I have seen pictures of ladies sitting outside of their shops make the lace.  So intriguing looking.  I probably would stand there a long time watching them.  It is really a pretty area.

Jack, your strawberries look good.  Three pounds of strawberries are a lot of strawberries.  I only usually buy one of the smaller container as if I buy a quart they usually go bad before I eat them all.  That was a good price.    Do you have any Wegman stores in your area?  They are really a fantastic store... a little expensive but if you want something and can't find it there,  it doesn't exist.  LOL   They have every kind of cheese that you could ever want.  Fun to try tasting some of them. 

Joy

Joy I do not have a Wegmans or Trader Joes in my area.  Have locals, WalMart and Krogers.  I do most at Krogers and that is where I purchased the strawberries.   Eating them now every morning.  May in fact buy more  if they still have them and freeze, hoping they are better than frozen packages of them.

Jack,  I only buy frozen strawberries if I am making something that I mix the strawberries with.   I make a dessert where you break up angel food cake and mix the frozen strawberries with jello and cool whip and pour that mixture over the angel food cake.

The frozen strawberries are usually mushy and only good for mixing in with something else.  Not too good to eat as they come out of the freezer.  I have frozen whole strawberries before and they get a little mushy after thawing out. 

Joy

Joy thanks, read if freezing fresh one, remove all water if washed and as much air as possible in bag to freeze. 

Now on with the travels.

From one of my visits to the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh.  The outside and one photo of just a portion of the inside.

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I hate to tell you, but my mother did can strawberries.  I don't know if anyone else in her family did that.  I can tell you too, they were nothing special!  Mother also canned peaches and pears and some vegetables, she also made grape juice and I remember the bag hanging under the kitchen sink dripping liquid into a pan on the floor.  Remember this was in the 1930s during the Depression.  And my mother died in 1941.  After Mother died, Dad and I canned peaches one year.  That was the end of our canning sessions. 

Jack, our strawberries would be 2 for $5 and I don't know the size of the package, but probably the same as yours.  I usually chop up the strawberries and put them on cereal or ice cream.  We have no Kroger stores in West Michigan, only in SE Michigan (Detroit area).

The Phipps Conservatory looks like an interesting place to visit.  Pretty flowers.

Mary Ann