Hello everyone, our beautiful spring weather has temporarily left us and winter has returned. Winters return sent us directly to the gardens to secure the plants from the strong northern winds coming in at this time. We will be warming some through the week ending with a lovely Easter Weekend. We will be making our meal plans according to the cooler season.

Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 787! This is our last week of the month and our Top Ten Features Party. You readers made some great choices last week that are featured today! I am looking forward to the party today the awesome links that you will be sharing. Come on in the back patio we are set up for the party outside today, it is a beautiful spring day! We have saved you a seat, enjoy the party!

  Our Strawberry Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing brings fresh flavors of spring and summer. The combination of fresh garden vegetables are a perfect match for the delicious honey balsamic dressing. This salad is a very special addition to any occasion. It will go from soup and salad to a formal holiday dinner. 

Spring meal plans are great, a refreshing start after a long winter. I am taking advantage of the beautiful spring day and sitting on the screen porch, and I am so happy to welcome you to our meal planning session today.

This Slow Cooker Cherry Cobbler is so easy to put together and the flavor is delicious. This cobbler is a great go to dessert for the pot luck that lets yo have a warm dessert, folks just love it. Make it for family and friends for game day, it is a winner. 

  Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 786! We are so excited to see you today. Our community is in the middle of Spring Break with many folks that had planned on travel are unable to do so. They have really been enjoying some of your recipes, just looking to fill in their fun and food for Spring Break. I sure hope you will enjoy our features from last weeks party. Thanks so much for coming to the party today!

  Hello everyone and welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 785. We are so happy to see you here at the party today.  

Our Pistachio Cake Recipe is one of my husbands favorite. He gets so excited when he knows it is on the meal plan for the week. This is a very simple cake and loaded with flavor. It really takes just a few ingredients with a little pudding and some nuts to make this one of your family favorites.

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 784! I am so happy to see you here today and sure you make into the cottage before the storm arrives. Yes the spring rains are starting and we really need the rain here. We have some great features from last weeks party that we hope you enjoy! I can't wait to see what you will be sharing with us today and thanks so much for coming to our party!

  I have always been a seasonal cook and enjoy the transitions of the seasons. We grow our own vegetables here at the cottage, which allows us to have either fresh, home canned or frozen vegetables available the year round. What we don't have available here, we usually find at one of our local farmers market. These are some of our favorites of the season, that perhaps will help you in making a choice of seasonal foods. 

Here we are sitting on the screen porch the first day of March with the temperatures in the 80's! We are truly enjoying this great welcome party for March! I am always excited to make the meal plans for March, it gives me a chance to visit my Irish heritage. We will be having some family favorites and looking forward to the amazing Irish food!

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 783, we are so happy to see you here today. I am so happy to present our readers most popular Top Ten Post from last weeks party. I know you will love these features!  I hope that some of you are beginning to dig out from the snow and the rest of us are still enjoying a lovely spring break. Come on in and find your place at the table, we saved you a seat!

  This cheeseburger pie was on my dinner table many times when my kids were younger. It is a very flavorful  pie. It has very few ingredients and takes little time to prepare. We top it off with all the trimmings of a great burger. The recipe is still a family favorite, my Grandkids are now making the recipe for my Great Grandkids!

  Hello everyone and welcome to our meal planning session for next week. One of the first things on my meal planning check list is to check the weather that we will be having for the next week.