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Farmers Market Withdrawl
We’ve missed out on Farmer’s markets two weekends in a row now for various reasons and I’m starting to go through withdrawl.
I’ve pretty much run out of produce (except for lettuces and radish which we pulled from our own garden this week) and am dreading having to put in a visit to the grocery store [...]
What does your garden grow?
Garden specs :
The 2008 garden is a little below 25 X 30 feet, or ~850 square feet.
Biggest pests so far:
Mosquitos – Installed bat boxes and spray on repellent
Ants – Don’t know what to do about this menace!
Grown:
We’ve planted the following:
Corn
Eggplant
Various Heritage Tomatoes
Ground Cherries
Various Peppers (green, red, orange etc)
Jalapeño
Horseradish
Turnip
Radish
Peas
Beans
Parsnip
Various Carrots
Various Potatoes
Various Lettuces
Various Radichios
Cucumbers
Various Onions
Garlic
Pumpkin
Cantaloupe
Broccoli
Rhubarb
And not [...]
Upgrading my Blog
I am about to upgrade CanadianFoodies.com to Wordpress 2.5.
So please ignore any short term randomness as I disable plugins, upgrade and (hopefully not) troubleshoot. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled program shortly!
Thanks for your patience.
* Update (15 minutes later) – Upgrade complete. If you notice any further randomness, it is completely my fault!
Breaded Veal with Mushroom Gravy
I forgot to take a picture! -ack- I must be out of practice…
I took a few days off work to celebrate an extra long holiday weekend (and my birthday – yay me!-) and that generally means a little more time to plan a nice meal.
And in typical fashion, I went with a few new dishes…
Thursday [...]
Wintered Vegetables
We spent a day in the fields today. For future refernce (because I know you MUST be visiting and reading my site fanatically!) Sunday is garden day.
Unfortunately, and if you followed along last summer you probably know, we live in the city. Not that living in the city is unfortunate, there are plenty [...]
The Perfect Steak
How do you know when your steak is finished on the bbq?
Practice.
But in the meantime, stop asking HOW LONG… because it’s not the right question.
Oh, I could tell you that your steak needs to bbq for about 12 minutes to produce a juicy medium-rare steak; but if your steak is only an inch thick, you [...]
