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Green beans are Attila’s favourite vegetable. I like them when they are fresh from the garden, don’t mind them when they come out of a can, and dislike them when they are frozen. Right now they are fresh daily out of the garden. We have either beans or beets from the garden for dinner every… Continue reading The Vegetable Chronicles: Green Beans

I”ve been watching Asian Dramas for quite some time now. I began on YouTube with “My Heroic Husband”, it was light and amusing. The next series I watched was more dramatic, Snow Sword Stride. I was hooked. After struggling through several series on YouTube, I took out a subscription with Rakuten Viki, and haven’t look… Continue reading Entertainment

Smoke! Our forest’s are burning, in the northern hemisphere of North America. Today the world is a yellow haze, as the smoke from forest fires in distant northwestern Ontario drifts into southern Ontario. The air quality is very poor. The temperature is high. The humidity is high. There are air quality warnings. Our air quality… Continue reading The Vegetable Chronicles: Carrots

This morning Attila brought in the first full sized zucchini. Since I baked muffins last week, this lovely specimen will become my lunch, sauteed with onion, grated carrot, chopped beet leaves and stems, and an egg. I will serve the vegetables on one serving of cooked, then cooled, then heated, noodles. The mixture will be… Continue reading The Vegetable Chronicles: Zucchini

The beets are ready. We have a lot of beets this year, they are doing really well with all the new compost in the garden. The beets in the image are meant for one meal for two. They will be cooked in the Instant Pot. Beet stems and leaves will be sorted, the best chosen… Continue reading The Vegetable Chronicles: Beets