We recently had just come back from Nantucket visiting our Dad's Uncle which we do each year but I will talk about that later. We had finished unpacking and were giving some gifts to our neighbors when our newest neighbors on our street came running down the street and told us that there was an adorable lost puppy that was on Main st. We all rushed down and it was the cutest puppy ever. We followed it all around asking people if they knew whose puppy it was. Finally someone called the police station and thankfully someone had just filed a report for a missing dog. The police station then called the lady and told her where her dog was. They pulled up in a red car and the lady picked up her dog and was so happy she found her dog. So was the dog whose name was Mandy. That was about half and hour. It was a lot of fun following the dog.
Now back to Nantucket, we usually always visit each year. We also see our second cousins. One is four an a half the other is three. They are both very cute. We spend a lot of time playing with them and taking bike rides. We bike up to a lot of places but every year we bike to a dock and feed the turtles. We figured this out a couple years ago. We were taking a bike ride one year and we stopped by the dock to see what everyone was doing. Feeding turtles!!! Everyone there had tied a string around a raw chicken bone and was dangling it in the water where there were huge turtles that were taking some of the meat off of the chicken bones. Some folks who were leaving gave us some of their chicken bones so we got to try it. We have done it ever since. This year was the same.
I love to bake! My mom is trying to get me to enjoy cooking more so I can make dinner but not yet. Any how, My sister and her friend went to our bookstore and bought a book called Hello Cupcake! It has a lot of amazing recipes on how to make amazing cupcakes. In the end they decided to make the garden cupcakes. I baked the cupcakes and they decorated them. They looked very cool in the end. My favorite vegetable on the cupcakes was the peas. They looked awesome. They made them from candy clay. They looked fantastic in the end and were hard to eat.
Paella is a Spanish dish with lots of seafood in it like, clams, mussels, and other sea foods along with the spices and the vegetables. This is a dish that my Dad and I made. This was our second time. The last time we used about 3 different recipes and followed the measurements and some of the instructions. This year we couldn't find our main recipe so we winged it more this time and added clam broth to it. We cooked it over the grill like last time although this time we were serving it to guests. It was good. I liked them both the same. We cooked it in a paella pan. Its always a ton of fun pulling the foil off of it and seeing how it came out and a little bit scary cause your hoping it won't be a complete failure. We got worried in the end thinking that we didn't put in enough rice so there would be to much liquid and the rice wouldn't absorb it. But it all worked out in the end. Pictures are below.
p.s. this is my longest post in my life.
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