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turkey…

14 Thursday Jul 2022

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had a good morning on Tuesday…

listened to house sparrows, chickadees and a few crows… I am just loving the sound ID on the Merlin app…

spotted the wild turkey that had been wandering the street yesterday, thanks to my neighbour knocking on the door…

and apparently the turkey frightened one of the neighbourhood bunnies…

there was no sign of the raccoons and the fish appear happy and all present… one of the biggest ones has been scraped up though… not sure if it was from the raccoon the night before last or from hiding under a rock, sigh…

the red and gray squirrels have been wandering around and threatening one another…

but the sun was out, except for a ten minute shower, and I was able to eat outside…

turkey…

14 Saturday Oct 2017

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Monday night after Thanksgiving dinner, I made the turkey soup broth, and popped it into the fridge…

this morning I worked on the soup by adding a bay leaf, shredded carrots, celery, onion and potatoes… used the mandolin and laughed again as I remembered how my beloved and I hadn’t used the first one we had correctly, lol…

after that cooked down I added in barley, peas and corn and left it simmering on the stove for a few hours…

final step was to make my mom’s dumpling recipe and add it to a portion of the soup…

I tend to remove about half of the soup into containers before adding the dumplings to what’s left…

let it simmer for about half an hour and voila…

vegetable turkey soup with dumplings… delicious dinner…

tomorrow I’ll give some to the kids…

roaster…

27 Tuesday Dec 2016

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cooked the turkey in my mom and dad’s WearEver roasting pan… 

it must be fifty years old because they had it when I was a kid… looked it up online and noticed that it was called vintage, lol… I can still see my dad lifting it out of the oven with whatever delectable food was inside it… 

that, along with their WearEver knife set, which hangs in the kitchen, and never get used, were treasured family possessions…

haven’t used the pan for a few years as the turkeys have been small and have fit nicely in my enamel roaster…

this turkey was a bit bigger so needed the larger container…

it does produce the most beautiful gravy… a lovely rich brown colour, even though there aren’t lots of bits stuck to the bottom of the pan… also makes the best nuts and bolts…

George had written our last name on the side for when we took it elsewhere doing catering… it was lovely to see his handwriting…

made me think of all the dinners we have cooked during our life together…

wonderful memories…

crafting…

26 Monday Dec 2016

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today I started turkey soup and worked on a craft project which my daughter gave me for Christmas…

the soup has simmered all day and soon I will separate the broth from the meat…

the crafting was fun… started with a box…

opened it to discover everything I would need to produce a Ferrero Rocher tree…

took out the bits and pieces…

pretty cool set up… way better than glueing them together, lol…

couple of levels done…

nice, eh… okay, okay, so all I did was put the chocolates on the layers, but it looks great…

my kind of craft… will use it as the centrepiece for New Year’s dinner…

I love Ferrero Rocher, but shouldn’t be eating them… will be great to have my family’s assistance in getting rid of them, lol… they are very helpful that way…

Ziggy…

25 Sunday Dec 2016

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felt a bit sad for our friend Ziggy this morning… he looked very sad as we put him into the hot almond milk…

but sure was tasty… 

had a wonderful day filled with fun, family, special moments and lots of treats…

ended with delicious turkey and all the trimmings…

the boys did a great job of cleaning up and then we devoured a chocolate Christmas tree;-)…

photo by @peacecyndi…

be thankful…

09 Sunday Oct 2016

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wanted to write a thanksgiving message for Facebook and it took up a good portion of the morning to get it just the way I wanted…

put the turkey in the oven and then ran out for a few final groceries… relaxed and read as a few items cooked ahead of time…

kids arrived and we had dinner a bit early as my son-in-law had to leave for work around six…

the boys all helped with clean-up before we had pumpkin and coconut cream pies….

so great to have everything done by the time everyone leaves…

one went off to work and the rest of us headed over to the Park to collect poke balls…

just before we left, middle guy and I took a selfie…

he dressed up with a white shirt and tie for dinner…

at the Park we walked through the Leo Mol Garden gathering poke balls and took this pic of “our bench“…

then a few of us walked around the Formal Gardens while others drove/parked and waited…

beautiful sky… 

great way to end a lovely thanksgiving…

vacation day four…

28 Monday Apr 2014

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got up, had breakfast, and went to pick up groceries for our turkey dinner tomorrow night…

while we were out I found a great pair of black runners, which I wore for the rest of the day… my feet are a bit sore from all the walking…

came home, put away the groceries and went downtown to have lunch at The Smoque Shack… the beef
bones were delicious and reminded me of Tony Roma’s…

20140428-220053.jpghad a wonderful drink…

20140428-220332.jpgwandered around Byward Market for a while and found a great dessert shop – Oh So Good, which serves cake by the piece much like Baked Expectations…

20140428-220828.jpgwe stopped in at Letellier and found sandals and work shoes… there is some conversation that I might need another suitcase, lol…

walked along the canal in the sun looking for tulips, before taking the bus back home…

had a nap, prepped potatoes, turnip and stuffing… swam in the building’s pool before dinner and watched some tv…

getting to be an old hand with the transit system…

the weather was beautiful and it was another great day:-)…