Music, Turkey, Music, Turkey

Went out to The Academy Theatre on Thursday night to see Joel Plaskett Emergency with Mo Kenney, wicked performances just to bad there was seating and no one got up to dance till the last few songs. Hopefully the small turn out of people didn't scare them away, maybe they will come back sometime.

Also made a soup with the left over turkey and half the stock that I made the other half in the freezer with the rest of the left over meat. I added with some carrots, potatoes, beans, and celery, from our garden and farmers market. The soup is good more kind of a stew then a soup always happens we put too many veggies in and gets to be quite chunky. Had that for supper with some pumpernickel bread and goat cheese. What a damn good dinner that was.

We cleaned up our garden this weekend emptied out the pots of soil into a pile added some compost and black earth and manure into it before covering it with a tarp for the winter, put away the pots into the garage attic, our yard looks really bare now everything is dead or dying. Our Kale, and chard are still doing well a couple leaves of the chard got hit with the frost the other night so we are going to have to eat some of the bigger leaves so that the little green houses can fit over them. Brought what ever tomatoes didn't get damaged by the frost in to ripen in doors.

Got to remember to email the community garden to get a plot for our onion and to plant the garlic within the next week.

Peace out.

Turkey, Things

Turkey left overs.

Yesterday I prepared the turkey carcass, that we brought home from the family, for some stock making. after I found our largest pot threw in some celery, onion, carrots garlic and some bay leaves with the carcass. and let that boil down for about 3 hours. The house smelled awesome and thanks to the leaky windows I'm sure we made everybody on the block salivate. Let that cool and skimmed any fat off the top.
Now I have to make up a batch of soup and freeze half of the 12 cups of stock.

Now its time to get something done.

Peace Out.

After the Thanks were given

So this is the first day back to work after all the Thanks, Feasts, and Toasts were given, and taken. We arrive back home. With left over treats baked by my Mum for my birthday, Pumpkin pie, pumpkin muffins, some hybrid Rice crispy peanut butter nanaimo bar which was awesome, and we can't forget the newly introduced thanksgiving desert Baklava, Thanks Ma.

We came home with a carcass, new wooden crates from an old store display (thanks M) one has already replaced my non existent night stand, and full bellies.

Sorry no pics of the treats, they were good, got around to eating them too fast.

This is the time....

This is the time when we get together for feasts and family, long trips away from home to the west then to the east. Long ago stories from relatives with beverages, food, and smiles.

My thanks, are to my family and friends, air and water, Flora and Fauna, Health, food and beer. And being lucky to be born in this place we call the Great White North.

Hope your weekend is just as fantastic.

Peace out.