It's That Time Again!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving eh!

For your added enjoyment (or not)  watch this:

There's a couple of naughty words. Be warned.

Cooking 101.

Long ago in a galaxy far, far away I loved to cook.  I love cook books, I read'em like novels but I seldom make anything out of them beyond my tried and true recipes.  Since the advent of fussy children turning up their noses at mealtimes, I kind of lost my mojo.

He's still cute.

Enter Jamie Oliver. (I wish he would enter my house.)  I love watching him on the food network.  I especially love the British shows: the ones on school lunches- That had a far reaching effect.  Once Jamie started on the rampage all the junk food was removed from the schools here.  I also like the Food Revolution.  He tried to get a whole English town to cook.  He is so earnest, as one of my commenters said.

Daughter #1 gave us the above cookbook a couple of years ago.  All I managed to make out of it was Spaghetti Bolognese and I must say it hit the spot.  My husband dug this cookbook out a couple of weeks ago and we have been endeavouring to liven up our veggies Jamie style.

We tried broccoli with Asian dressing and it was good.

I made a leek and potato soup that was lovely.

We were doing so well and then Mr LC decided to try Jamie's Light and Fluffy rice.  EPIC FAIL!!!!  I think the cooking times were off in the recipe because it sure tasted raw to us.

Undaunted, we decided to go for the Buttered Spinach.

Delicious!  We had a do over because it was so good.  I cooked the broccoli and spinach for the same meal and Mr LC said ' Perfect.  Now all we need is a slab of steak to go with this.'  FAIL Mr LC! FAIL!

p.s. Do you think that Julie and Julia idea would work in this case???  Probably not.  I'd have to change my name to Olive.

All photos are from Jamie Oliver.com.

Another Post in Which I Have Nothing to Say.

Yesterday I took Daughter #2 for a prenatal assessment.  All is well and the baby is due on our Thanksgiving weekend.  I hope to get out of cooking dinner for this one.  Why do all the holiday celebrations fall on the wife/mother?  I digress.

Yesterday the weather was warmer than it had been all summer.  Today we are huddled around the woodburner in the kitchen.

I saw another bear on Saturday.  I sure hope it was the same one we saw before as it was much farther away from our house.

Not funny.

It was Mr LC's turn to cook dinner last night and his sister called and invited us over for dinner at her place.  I hope this means he's cooking tonight.

Can anyone tell from this post that I don't like to cook?

I did make a potato and leek soup the other day for the first time and I must say it was awesome.  Thanks to Jamie Oliver.

He's so cute.

I still don't like to cook though.

Over and out.  Carry on.

Somebody Reads My Blog.

Last night I got a phone call from this creature:

Playing the pregnant card she convinced her hubby to go and get her some of these:

She had to call and tell me they were on sale and had moved to the cookie aisle.  She's helpful that way.

More Time Travel.

When I was a teenager I liked to refinish old furniture.  I used to love to strip off the years of old black varnish and make the piece look nice again.  My grandmother gave me a rocking chair back then because she was impressed by my skill(!) She took me over to an old storage shed behind the house and there up in the rafters was an old rocking chair.  My grandmother collected rocking chairs like there was no tomorrow.  We got the dusty old piece down(the chair I mean) and I set to work.  Et voila!  When my grandmother saw the chair all done up, she wanted it back!  The nerve!

I just dug it out of our old shed because #2 wants a rocking chair for the soon to arrive baby.  I rocked her and her sister many an hour in this old gal.

I love the carving on the back.

Doesn't she look so happy!  The end is near.

Coupon Update.

I just wanted to let you know (because I know you're super interested) how I did with my coupons last week.  I scored!  It took me a couple of hours to peruse all the flyers for the stores in our area but I did it.  I comparison shopped and checked for good sales and made sure I had the coupons to match.
Here's my pile for this week:

I'm not going to clear the shelves or hoard inordinate amounts of stuff.  I'll just buy things I need and use.  I never used to check the ads before shopping.  Once I started I couldn't get over how much money I was wasting by just throwing things in my shopping cart without looking at the prices. Shameful, really.



Imagine my excitement when perusing the foreign food aisle I came upon these:

Tim Tams!  And they were on sale!!!  A real Australian delicacy!  Yum!
Happy shopping, mates.

Up Close and Personal.

Before Mr LC retired we used to go out every Friday night for a date.  Now that he is home every.single.day we no longer need a date night because we are together all the time. Sigh.  However, Mr LC decided to be sweet and take me out to Tims for a coffee (smoothie for me) and a doughnut.

Now, we live on a dirt road in the ruralist of rural areas.  We are twenty minutes from the nearest small town.  This evening we started down our road (in the car) and before we got very far we saw this crossing our path.

Reenactment

A BEAR!  I have never seen a real bear out in the wild before.  I was scared, very scared.  Mr LC was excited, very excited.  He rolled down the window of the car and called to the bear!  Thankfully, the bear ignored him. This past spring the small town we live near warned about bears moseying around the streets.  A small town is heaven for a bear. They wouldn't have to go pawing through the wilds looking for food.  Everyone is storing it for them in their backyard.  So what, I ask you, is a bear doing all the way out here?  He has to actually forage for food out here.  He has to compete with all the raccoons and deer for food out here.  Go back to town, Mr Bear, I beg you.  I am never going for a walk again. shudder.