Weekend at the cottage

So we are back from the weekend at the cottage and while I didnt do as much creative stuff as I would like I did do some stuff.

I managed to get the entire day off on friday so we were able to leave by 1pm which means we had almost all of friday to enjoy the cottage. And enjoy we did. Did some fishing (nice 4lb fish caught by gf)...

and some cooking (even managed to get most of the bones out of it before we ate, still have to work on filleting the fish before I cook it thought)...

and all around enjoying the sounds and sights of nature all around us :)

I usually do all the cooking when we go to the cottage anyway but on saturday I decided to get a little creative by making some Moroccan flat bread. I had got all the ingredients together before we left so it was just mixing the dough up and dividing it up into nice pita sized pieces.

This is just a regular flat bread recipe but to make it Moroccan I added cumin and coriander and some whole chickpeas :)
I like to call it hummus in flat bread.

To bake the bread we used the barbecue  and it turned out amazing

Along with the Moroccan flat bread we had sweet corn, carrot soup made earlier in the week by my gf, and a very nice fresh salad with honey garlic salad dressing (store bought sadly :( but its easy)

 Very tasty, and on top of all of that we had a bit of a nature show as some endangered wild grouse came up to the cottage to forage on some of black berries and grasses that grow near by.

After lunch we had an amazing mid afternoon nap for about 4 hours and then we decided to go and have a bon fire out by the lake... unfortunately this is where things didnt go quite as hoped. While trying to get a log into position to sit on, my gf accidentally stepped on a rusty nail that was stuck in an old board from when the dock was replaced. Thus started our mad dash to get to the emergency hospital for a tetanus shot. I say mad dash but it wasnt really that mad of a dash, more of a slow drive to the closest town. After about a 30 minute wait we got a bandage and an updated shot and we were on our way back to the cottage.

This of cours put a damper on our adventuring cause my gf couldnt really walk but that was ok, we came up to relax and thats exactly what we did.

I played guitar for about an hour (no recordings unfortunately) and my gf cross stitched. And in case you thought that the flat bread from saturday wouldnt keep until the next day...

So to make a long story even longer, we drove back sunday afternoon, dropped off for dinner at my parents and helped them harvest some veggies from their garden. a nice batch of tomatoes and beans and even some red currents. My mom had made a delicious stew for us and so we busted out the flat breads and they were still very good. We also had a very nice cranberry wine that my parents found at some winery close to the cottage.

After dinner we had some tea with the parents and chatted until far later then we probably should have. We didnt get home that late (9:30pm i think) but we were all exhausted so we washed up and passed out almost immediately.

~(' ')~