well, my new rain gauge works

On Mother's Day my new rain gauge had over three inches of rain in it.  There will be no gardening outside for a couple of days.  But there is still work to do in the greenhouse with the seedlings.  I did not have a chance to make dandelion jelly yet but there will be more opportunities for picking and using dandelion flowers.  I have a few flowers picked by Caitlin that are sitting  in my refrigerator and if I can get enough more while those are still good I will report how it turns out.

Last week in this post I mentioned in the last paragraph that I have a couple of events that I am cooking for and one of them was Mother's Day at my mom's house.  I am planning to serve the same food at both events using my Mom's dinner as a trial run on a couple of new recipes.  I brought a salad and an assortment of homemade candy bars for dessert.  I really liked the salad.  It is a Thai coleslaw, colorful and flavorful.  I would definitely make it again.  The candy bar assortment included homemade Trix, homemade Payday and homemade Butterfinger candy bars.  None were especially difficult and I thought they tasted good and similar to the originals.  All in all it was a fun culinary day. 

Thai peanut slaw

L to R- twix, payday and butterfinger

PS.  this post has been sitting on the blog in draft form for several days (since Mother's Day) just waiting for me to come back and hit publish.  Oops.