Avocado And Egg Salad

I love avocados, and this is my favorite avocado and egg salad.

Ingredients:

avocados
boiled eggs
sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil (drained) 
salad greens of any choice
pine nuts
olives
salt, pepper
raspberry vinaigrette

Bon appétit

This time I'm joining my second blog party, which is called Foodie Friday and is hosted at Designs by Gollum. See you there.

A Present from Mom

Whenever my mom comes to visit me (she lives in a different city), she brings me some wonderful present that she made herself. For instance, I got a pair of soft knitted socks, a crocheted hat, and lovely doilies.
When she came to stay with us this month, she brought me something so beautiful that I couldn’t resist bragging about it on my blog. Isn’t this little pillow in a crocheted pillowcase lovely? So simple, yet so charming. What makes it even dearer to me is that it was made by my mom.
I placed it in the guest room as it is the most beautiful bedroom in my house and that’s exactly where this sweet little pillow belongs.




For the second time, I am joining Cindy's Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home, and I am looking forward to checking out all the other entries this weekend as there are always tons of wonderful ideas there.

March: How Does the Garden Grow?

Here is a little update on my garden.



This little rose is the first one to bloom on the big old rose bush. I cannot wait until the entire bush will be blooming. My other rose bushes have beautiful rose buds as well.



Two newly planted raspberry bushes have tiny buds, too. Perhaps we'll have a few raspberries this year already.



The orange tree is about to start blossoming as well. Hopefully this year we'll have a few oranges (the tree is very young and last year, we only had one orange, which wasn't very tasty, unfortunately).



And finally, here is a picture of my celery and radishes. Because they grow in a pot, the slugs haven't gotten a hold of them yet.

Lavender Bouquet

The other day, I trimmed a lavender bush in my garden, as it grew way too big. The trimmed branched had lots of pretty flowers, so I decided to make a bouquet out of them. To my lavender, I added some green branches from another bush that I trimmed that day. Here is my little lavender bouquet.

Fruit Assortment Plates

I received these lovely dessert plates from my mom. She brought them to the USA all the way from Ukraine. I remember admiring these plates when I was little and my mom kept them in her cupboard. Every plate has a unique fruit picture, which looks as if from a renaissance painting.
There are five small plates (unfortunately one was broken back in Ukraine) and one big serving plate. The plates where made in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), and since the German reunification took place in 1990, I assume these plates are at least twenty years old. My mom, however, says she bought them back in the 70s. It doesn’t really matter how old these plates are; what matters is that I am very happy to own them now. Thank you, mama.










For the first time, I am joining a blog party. I’m linking to “Show and Tell Friday” at Cindy’s blog, called My Romantic Home. I absolutely love her blog, and I am sure once you see it yourself, you will love it too.