Pineapple upside-down cake

Yesterday morning I made a pineapple upside-down cake for our afternoon dessert. Here's a link to a post about such a cake that includes a recipe. Instead of pineapple rings, I used a can of pineapple chunks that I had bought out of curiosity. They and the cake turned out to be excellent. Bon appétit !

An omelette filled with roasted red bell peppers, etc.

Yesterday for lunch we had an omelet filled with roasted red peppers, diced tomato, sautéed onion, sautéed mushrooms, a chipolata sausage (pre-cooked), and grated cheese (Cantal cheese melts well, as does Cheddar). With it, we had sautéed potatoes cooked in the air fryer. It was fittin'.

Roasted bell peppers again

I made another batch of air-frye roasted bell peppers over the weekend. Walt bought the peppers at the supermarket. There are red ones and yellow ones. I just wanted to show you how they fit in the air fryer, which the product specs say has a capacity of five liters. After the peppers have collapsed and started getting slightly charred, the skin peels right off. Then the peppers have to be cut open and all the seeds and need to be removed. Save the juice they release and pour it over the peeled and seeded peppers. Follow this link to read an old post I did about the process.

Yesterday's party

I've mention the neighbors' cousinade a couple of time over the past few days. A cousinade is a family reunion for a group of people who are cousins, including their spouses, children, or grandchildren.

Look how many cars there were parked in the neighbors' yard. I can count between 20 and 25, and there may have been some parked over on the other side of the neighbors' house. We watched the cousins arrive and get out of their cars, so we know there were some cars with two people in them and others with four or more.

The hosts and guests were lucky, because even though it wasn't very warm and dark clouds looked threatening, the rain held off. We only had a couple of light showers over the course of the afternoon. The neighbors' house isn't big enough to accommodate a crowd like that. They had put a big barnum (party tent or marquee) up in their yard under which they could sit and not get wet if the rains came.

A sit-down lunch was served outdoors, and I imagine there was enough food for a light outdoor dinner too. The last guests left at about 11 p.m.