Sunday

Today has been another good day!  I slept in a bit because I had stayed up till 2:00 a.m., last night, but, my daughter was up bright and early to take an online exercise class!  I slept till a little past 10:00 a.m., then, made myself a cup of tea and said my morning prayers.  Cousin P called and we had a nice chat.

In the afternoon, my daughter went to pick up the groceries.  There was one substitution - we had ordered the store brand hamburger buns (a package of 8 buns for $1.25); the store substituted brand name organic hamburger buns that were regularly priced at $6.49 for a package of 8!  I am not sure who would pay $6.49 for hamburger buns, even if they were organic and the name included the phrase "Killer Hamburger Buns Done Right"!  I was charged only the $1.25 I would have paid for the store brand, though, so I am not complaining!  I'm very grateful that this store charges only the lesser price of the item when they make a substitution.

When daughter came home, I baked the deli pizza we had bought for lunch.

While the oven was on for the pizza, I pulled out all the bread ends (or heels as some call them) that had been saved over the past several weeks in the fridge.  I love the crusty bread ends of homemade bread, French bread, etc., but, not the ends of store bought sandwich bread.  These are kept in the fridge until I have enough to do something with them.  Today, I took some of them and cut them up into small squares, tossed them with salt, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, and some dried basil, spread them out on a baking sheet with a bit of oil on it and put them in the oven, along with the pizza, to make croutons to add to our salads.  They were done in a few minutes and daughter liked them so much that she ate a bowl of them just as they were!  

The rest of the bread ends were cut up and put into a small square baking dish with a mixture of eggs (I used three large eggs), milk (didn't measure! About 1 1/2 cups?), and sugar (about 2/3 cups) poured over them, some cashews sprinkled on the top along with a handful of raisins on one half of the bread mixture (daughter doesn't like raisins so her half doesn't have raisins), dotted on the top with a few pats of butter and baked for about 20 minutes to make a bread pudding.  We both had two pieces each from our respective halves!

In the afternoon, daughter's friend A stopped by to pick up some zucchini to take to her parents - four medium sized zucchini have now left the house and there is a little space in the fridge for the next ones to be harvested!  

I sewed a few more patches on the quilt in the afternoon and had a long chat on the phone with my half-sister.  Later, I spoke with Aunt C and with friend R.  And with one of my cousins who is in Sri Lanka.

Afterwards, I emptied the dishwasher that daughter had run yesterday and washed today's dishes by hand.  Wiped down the stove top, too, but not the counters.  

Today, I am grateful for:

- Another good, pain free day
- All the little things I was able to do as a result
- Daughter picking up the groceries and curbside pickup
- Being able to share more zucchini
- Phone chats with family and friends

Today's joyful activity was baking bread pudding (and croutons) from the bread ends.

Plans for tomorrow include making a graduation card.  

How was your Sunday?  What are your plans for Monday?