AS USUAL, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FOOD!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, CANADA

The newest cook at the test kitchen!!!













Yum. These roasted peppers are about to become pickled peppers.





There are a lot of pumpkin pies in this field.

Life is short....Eat the dessert first!




Sweet potato casserole ready to go in the oven.

Big Bird!






Turkey plus rolled, stuffed, pork to make sure there are leftovers until 2010. What were we thinking?

It sure looks delicious.

And, isn't it pretty all sliced on the plate?

KEN CAN COOK

LEMON TARTS

We just made these lemon tarts and they are delicious if you love lemon.


ZESTY LEMON TARTS
(Makes 18 servings)

2 eggs
2 egg yolks
4 ounces (113 g) butter
1/2 cup (125 mL) fresh lemon juice (about 2 large lemons)
Lemon zest from 2 lemons, chopped small
6 tablespoons (90 mL) sugar
18 baked mini tart shells

Place the eggs and egg yolks in a small bowl. Whisk the eggs until smooth.
Melt the butter in the top of a double boiler.
Add the eggs, lemon juice, lemon zest, and sugar to the melted butter. Whisk the ingredients in the double boiler over medium-high heat until the mixture thickens.
Remove the lemon filling from the heat. Cool. Spoon the filling into pre-baked, cooled mini tart shells.
Tip: In order to squeeze the maximum amount of juice out of lemons, roll whole lemons on the counter while applying pressure from the palm of the hand. Use a zester to get extra fine zest from the lemon peel.

WORK BEES, FOOD, FUN, FAMILY & FRIENDS

Painting, Trimming, & Cementing

Raclette party with Pat & Joan

PJ party with Brenda and Barb





An afternoon with John, Peggie, Bonnie & Doug

A frequent visitor to the test kitchen

Tomatoes soon to be Ketchup

Nephew Ross off to Peru

Here are two Underground Railroad Sites that are definitely worth a visit.


Labour Day Weekend in North Buxton, Ontario, at the Buxton Historical Society. Great speakers. Excellent food. And we were thrilled to be invited on the hay ride. What fun!

Then off to the Dawn Settlement in nearby Dresdon, Ontario, and the site of Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Road Crew joins The Cooking Ladies at the test kitchen for ...

an event at Mcnaughton's Home Hardware in Newbury.

VISITORS AT THE TEST KITCHEN

Loving that low-country boil...

A monarch butterfly drops by to taste the geraniums

What is that brown thing between the wipers on the motorhome. Is it something the wind blew in?

You have to get a little close to see it..... scroll down...

Here's what the wind blew in.

IT'S A BAT!!!! Hanging upside down from the rubber beneath the windshield. We have never seen one here before.

Isn't she cute sleeping in the middle of the afternoon with her nose under her wing? It was way too bright for her. When it also got too hot, she was suddenly gone. Bats eat more than their body weight in insects so she can come back for a visit anytime.

HUNGRY ISLAND

SIX MILE LAKE

It's a difficult decision but sometimes a person needs to get away from one lake and go to another.

This orange boat will stand out as warning to other boaters that they should get out of the way, but really, do you trust these two to drive it?

Six Mile Lake in the Muskokas is quite a contrast to Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario. Lake Erie can change it's mood several times in one day. If you wait 20 minutes the wind can turn calm, clear tourquoise water, like the Caribbean, into an angry, grey monster with waves crashing like the Atlantic.

On the other hand, with the wind in the Muskokas the leaves dance in the trees while you lie back in your favourite hammock.

One of a hundred photos of this humming bird

CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION

We recommend the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. We spent a week there with friends in early July. It is a community where visitors come to find intellectual and spiritual growth and renewal. It runs for nine weeks every summer and encompasses the arts, education, religion and recreation. It is a place, removed from the day-to-day world, where some of the leading thinkers of our time come to speak to the concerns and issues of today. There is also music, dance, opera, theater and the visual arts.

Chautauqua is perhaps best known for its morning lecture series when the Amphitheater stage becomes the platform for distinguished speakers across a broad range of disciplines.

The theme for the week we attended was National Geographic. Donald Johanson was one of the speakers. His claim to fame is that he found the skeleton of "Lucy" who lived 3.2 million years ago.

Susan B. Anthony argued for women’s suffrage in 1892, and Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his "I Hate War" speech in 1936. Margaret Mead, Amelia Earhart, Thurgood Marshall, Freeman Dyson, Jane Goodall, Sandra Day O’Connor and Kurt Vonnegut have all spoken at Chautauqua.