Ready to swoop in at a moment’s notice to rescue any stray bits that might fall on the floor!
[recipe] Catalina dressing
3/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup chopped onion
3 tbsp honey
3 tbsp tomato paste
1/3 cup red wine vinegar
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp celeri salt
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon water plus more if needed to reach desired consistency
Add all the ingredients to the jar of a blender.
Blend until smooth. Adding more water, a teaspoon at a time, if needed until desired consistency is reached.
Pour into a glass jar and refrigerate. Keep in the refrigerator up to 2 months.
Apero on the water
Delphine, the head of the wine club, is leaving Nestlé for new adventures so we had a little apero on her boat to celebrate her departure. We were initially supposed to go out on the water but we stayed in the marina because the lake was a bit too windy and choppy. Was really nice to be sociable again!
Mel would be so proud
Don’t know where this obsession with ironing came from… God knows it’s not from us.
Life Haiku
Happy National Swiss Day
Helping!
Another week with Ericus
Pretty much same thing to report as from the last time we had Eric over. He’s a 40kg cat, a tongue connected to a stomach and a bladder, and Tolstoy is still an asshole.
Edit: I just realized that all the pictures of Eric are of him either sleeping or being bouncy, with the odd one of him looking longingly at food. Conclusion, he’s a lab.
When you’re a starving, starving dog
Woe is the Ericus, starving, unfed, unloved. The treat-giver is eating bread and cheese. Maybe if I look waifish enough, and drool all along his leg, he’ll give me some.
Juno
Today is the day this guy goes home. We had him for two weeks. Hard to imagine that for the first 3 days, he’d bark at me every time he saw me in the morning. Now he’s a giant cuddle bug. Besides from wanting to smell everything all the time and wanting to play with all the dogs, he’s actually a really good boy. He’s super improved on his leash-walking. Never underestimate the power of the treat bag. He still pulls, and if I’m not braced for it, he can drag me around, but the bungee-leash really helps for that.
Edit:
I never actually blogged about the fact that Juno accidentally broke Katy’s finger in a freak leash-pull accident, which subsequently required orthopedic surgery and months of physiotherapy afterwards.