Since last Thursday it snowed a bit as you can tell from the picture of the Weather Indicator Gnomes(WIGs) taken on Sunday.
Then Suzanna got all energetic and started clearing the front path and decided the WIGs couldn't breathe so in a rush of Gnomanitarianism she uncovered them and so this morning they are exposed and able to breathe but no longer performing their WI role. Shame!
We don't know much about St. Valentine but he was Roman and so he presumably knew all about pizza so that was enough of an excuse to enjoy home made pizza in his honour last Saturday evening. Home made dough made with fresh yeast, lots of yummy toppings and of course the star was the pizza sauce made last year from our own tomatoes and full of summer sunshine. The frosts came early last year so it was a race to pick all the tomatoes, most of which were still green, but they ripened in our growing room and became pizza sauce, tomato sauce, pasta sauce, roasted tomatoes stewed tomatoes and we will be eating them until the next harvest. We probably look like tomatoes. I have been forbidden to plant as many this year. Well perhaps 40 tomato bushes yielding an average of at least 4kg each was a bit over the top but we might have lost them all to Blossom End Rot or the dreaded Blight and then how would we have survived the winter? Surely not on onions, butternut squash, potatoes and far too many gem squash plus the odd jar of aubergine pickle and courgette chutney!
We worked up an appetite for the feast by clearing a path to the top meadow/lawn/snowfield. Suzanna womanned the snow blower while I did battle with the shovel and Molly the dog gave directions 
Sunday we had penne and mushroom sauce partially made from our own oyster mushrooms and I planted more cat grass at last! 
Tuesday was Pancake day so Suzanna cooked up a storm of proper English style pancakes with various fillings including Marmite and one of my favourites, grated proper cheddar cheese plus proper seville orange marmalade. (Lots of cheese here is processed and they sell marmalade made with sweet oranges! Imagine!) Of course we don't grow seville oranges here on the windswept, snow covered, bitterly cold prairies but Suzanna brought home two huge seville oranges from far away Vancouver last week which have been turned into 5 jars of Peggy's Marvellous Marmalade. Nothing to do our garden, but just mentioned in passing. My number 1 favorite pancake filling is cooked rhubarb and thick whipped cream. We possibly do have rhubarb but it is a bit inaccessible at the moment. We do not have cows producing thick whipped cream.
St Valentines Day 2015 and other Festivities.
We don't know much about St. Valentine but he was Roman and so he presumably knew all about pizza so that was enough of an excuse to enjoy home made pizza in his honour last Saturday evening. Home made dough made with fresh yeast, lots of yummy toppings and of course the star was the pizza sauce made last year from our own tomatoes and full of summer sunshine. The frosts came early last year so it was a race to pick all the tomatoes, most of which were still green, but they ripened in our growing room and became pizza sauce, tomato sauce, pasta sauce, roasted tomatoes stewed tomatoes and we will be eating them until the next harvest. We probably look like tomatoes. I have been forbidden to plant as many this year. Well perhaps 40 tomato bushes yielding an average of at least 4kg each was a bit over the top but we might have lost them all to Blossom End Rot or the dreaded Blight and then how would we have survived the winter? Surely not on onions, butternut squash, potatoes and far too many gem squash plus the odd jar of aubergine pickle and courgette chutney!We worked up an appetite for the feast by clearing a path to the top meadow/lawn/snowfield. Suzanna womanned the snow blower while I did battle with the shovel and Molly the dog gave directions Sunday we had penne and mushroom sauce partially made from our own oyster mushrooms and I planted more cat grass at last! Tuesday was Pancake day so Suzanna cooked up a storm of proper English style pancakes with various fillings including Marmite and one of my favourites, grated proper cheddar cheese plus proper seville orange marmalade. (Lots of cheese here is processed and they sell marmalade made with sweet oranges! Imagine!) Of course we don't grow seville oranges here on the windswept, snow covered, bitterly cold prairies but Suzanna brought home two huge seville oranges from far away Vancouver last week which have been turned into 5 jars of Peggy's Marvellous Marmalade. Nothing to do our garden, but just mentioned in passing. My number 1 favorite pancake filling is cooked rhubarb and thick whipped cream. We possibly do have rhubarb but it is a bit inaccessible at the moment. We do not have cows producing thick whipped cream.
.........................................and to end with here is the latest picture of the veg patch
p.s. Yes the straw bales should have been dug into the beds but the snow came tumbling down before I had a chance to get going with that and the rhubarb is up near the shed.
Haha, great!
ReplyDeleteWell done! Nice to read about your daily lives and all the delish goodies!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant :)
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