Water Lilies at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Recently, my family and I went to the Missouri Botanical Garden on a lovely summer day. We went to see the Treehouses exhibit but I was captivated by the water lilies...

















and a few other pretty flowers:

Summer Cooking!

I've made an unofficial pact with my parents about cooking together once a week - in an attempt to both see them and expand my cooking skills. My parents are EXCELLENT cooks and I have a lot to learn.

Our menu for this day was a recipe found in Cuisine at Home, a pretty amazing cooking magazine.



Grilled Vegetable Couscous w/ lemon and goat cheese, with Lemon Butter Chicken. Sounds delicious, doesn't it? Well, I can tell you it was.

First, we washed and prepped all the vegetables (asparagus, whole bell peppers, red onions, white onions, zucchini) for the grilling:



Then we grilled them to deliciousness:







Then we prepared our colorful couscous:



Next up, grilling the chicken:



Here's the finished product, all sliced up, pre-mixing:



All mixed up:



And the final product, before being eaten:



YUM!

Hungry yet? I am!