if my name was Rosemary

If my name was Rosemary it would be kind of weird, not in the bad sense, I would get funny looks "Hi, my name is Rosemary." Especially in my line of work, and being a dude. But maybe it would be a 'boy named Sue' type of scenario. I would have grown up with gravel in my guy and spit in my eye. I mean I love my name I have now, and I did have to learn to be tough, being called Jessica from kindergarden to even still people think it's funny now. I learned, 'my fists got hard and my wits got keen'. But Rosemary would have gotten me in more trouble.



 On to what this is really about FOOD!.... Easy peasy, lemon squeasy.

Roasted Veg. and Rosemary.

 4 cloves of Garlic
 1 Onion
4 small to medium Potatoes
4 Carrots
4 smallish to medium Beets
2 Sweet Potatoes
Salt n Peppa Rosemary

natural sunlight from the back door made this glow.

 Cut all your Veg. Around the same size varying dimensions are not an issue, make it fun and easy don't be worried about it, it's just food and it goes into your belly. Crush Garlic leave in skin.
 Add everything in a 13x9 pan, oven@ 400°, drizzle olive oil all over those suckers, add as much salt and pepper as you want. I like pepper so I make sure there is lots every piece, same with Rosemary, Mix it all up, use your hands its fun. Put in the oven, dish uncovered, for 45 mins, stir the veg in the pan after 25mins/halfway. done when all veg is cooked.

Lack of sun made this photo terrible.

I will post pictures soon. This has been sitting for a while and I haven't actually made this in a while so I couldn't take pictures, don't get mad at me, I am too damn awesome.

Peace I'm OUT

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.

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.

Earth?

What is Earth? Is it a planet in this huge vast area, and no one really knows how big it really is?  They can lie and tell you they do know, but, its all guess work.
We call lots of things Earth, Black Earth, Diatomaceous Earth, Soil is sometimes referred to as Earth, Earthworms, Earth Shelter, Earth Quake.

What is Earth? Dirt? Yes, at least to me it is. I like it and all the things it can do. Support life, Micro organisms, It supports me and my feet, my home, my plants, the animals in which walk on it, the farmers market I go to down the road, my bicycle and car tires, the grass in which my dogs pee and poop on, where my cats can chase mice and bugs and think they are hiding in, The enormous and beautiful trees, the water that sits on it, or goes through it and gets filtered. We can all thank dirt but most of us don't. This is my thanks.

We dig into it, we plant our veggies and flowers into it, sow seeds into it, walk, run, trot on it. Sleep and sit on it, put different types of dirt into our bars of soap, press it into pottery, make buildings out of it. Get it in our hair up our cracks, under our nails, stuck to our feet, packed into our boots and shoe treads, tread it into our houses, sweep it up throw it back outside.

How many times have you looked up at a tree? To see its Large trunks, colour and shape of its leaves, its twists in its branches, texture of its bark.

Now?

How many times have you looked down at the Earth? And seen its jewels and gems, colours and textures.  Whether its arid or saturated, if its hiding treasures just underneath its surface, whether its been compacted to support buildings and roads. Has it been disturbed?  Is some creature running through it like a miniature subway system, or did another creature bury its meal for safe keeping? How many different layers of different types of dirt are beneath you?

Peace, I'm out.

Diggin the Dirt

So yesterday, the little lady and I spent sometime digging in the dirt. Sifting through the compost, after about 4 years of dumping kitchen scraps in there. It was surprisingly really good, fluffy, dark, earthy smells, lots of critters, sow bugs, tons and tons of worms, and other little guys. We pulled out 4 wheel barrow loads spread the first three around our raised garden, tomato pots and flower gardens.

We also dug out one of our potato baskets all the plants have died so we decided it was time. The other basket is still alive but probably ready to be dug out shortly. We use the potato basket method of piling the dirt around the plants in a type of container so we can grow more plants in a smaller area and contain all the bedding (straw, dirt). The potatoes only develop in the first 6 to 12 inches of material same as last year so our baskets don't need to be as tall next year maybe that just means more baskets next year.

our last load being saved to mix into our dirt from the containers on our deck

what was left after our hard work of sifting, This thing was completely full.

our first basket harvest, three large pots are missing due to
baked potatoes last night