Man of many talents

 Things are cooling off here in Southwest Nova Scotia.

The time also changed this past weekend.  

Something that drives me nuts!

But anyway, we had one last warm Sunday.

So I cleaned up my strawberry beds to put them to 

sleep for the winter. I also noticed that there was still some parsley, cilantro 

and green onions that had popped up in the warm temps we had.

I even found one last feed of beet greens.

In this neck of the woods, green onions, shallots, scallions

whatever you want to call them are used a bit differently 

than other places. 

We have a few local, ethnic dishes (rappie pie and chicken fricot)

that salted green onions are a staple.

All this is it's shallots and lots and lots of salt.

The shallots are chopped and then added to the bottle 

and salt is added and they keep forever.

It adds a lovely flavour to boiled chicken, stew meat

etc...but obviously don't put too much.

Please excuse this post, for some reason Blogger is adding empty

lines in some places and not in others.

Every year I have a hard time  making carrots germinate.

Well last year I found out  the trick and I had plenty of

carrots.  But I still get paranoid they won't come up

and I wayyyy over plant carrots.

So thanks to my cold cellar, hubby built,  I have plenty of room to

store them.  We are trying the dry method in shavings and Dave

has learned to can!  Oh my.  That's pretty much all I can say.

Well when I was campaigning I was too busy to can, plus the dog attack

left me without the use of my right hand for several weeksv

so Dave took up the slack.  

I think he likes it.  He's  made salsa, spaghetti sauce, 

pickled hot pepper, yellow beans and carrots, carrots and more

carrots!! He's also discovered pressure canning

which I'm too afraid to do.

And some of our carrots grew a bit.  That's Dave's size 12 sexy foot

you're staring at beside the carrot.

We planted regular carrots and rainbow carrots, so it makes 

lovely jars.

Saturday was a bit chilly, but I bundled up and planted tulips

while Dave planted the garlic.

I also made him his favourite.

Butter pecan tarts.

I have to spoil him somehow.

Have a Blessed Day