Fresh and Tasty Summer Sausages

Prep: 20 minutes

Cost: $11

Yes, this meal was as good as it looks.

I made a great Greek salad as our vegetable source. Lots of red peppers, onions, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, black olives, and feta. Olives and feta were both on sale for $0.99 per hundred grams this week!

Our starch was yellow skinned potatoes with fresh chives and green onions from our garden. Yum!

Our protein was Chorizo sausages cooked on the barbeque.

For dessert, we had watermelon because that is what you do in the summer.

Our setting was our beautiful patio, although a couple wasps annoyed me very much!

Steak Dinner on a Lovely Patio

And it was our patio! Because summer is finally here!

Cost: $8

Prep: 30 minutes

Today was the first day that was night enough for us to take our dinner outside and dine on the back patio. It gets a bit too much sun though, and was actually maybe a little too warm still to eat as early as we do.

But, we perservered and ate our dinner, enjoying the novelty of eating "side".

My jobs were done inside. I steamed green beans and nuked some potaotoes that were then finished on the bbq. I also collected and cut some fresh herbs from our garden to eat with said potatoes.


That's it. That is all the cooking I did.

Matt marinated and barbecued the steaks--which were flipping fantastic. He also grilled some red pepper.

The meal, although it was dense, felt like summer. I love this part of the year! Our summer in Victoria is so mild (although above 25 degrees is still too hot for me!) when it finally arrives. I feel lucky to live here!

Giant Steak and Mushrooms

Cost: $10

Prep: Quick

BBQ is key. It means matt does more of the cooking.

Matt did the giant steaks (there was A LOT of leftovers) while I did the mushrooms (soy sauce and butter), potatoes, steamed broccoli, and fresh chives from our out-of-control herb garden!

The best part, however, was Charlie's Charlie Chaplin mustache.