Category Archives: cooking

Summer Kitchen

It’s so great to have a garden again, after several years without.  There’s something about being out in my bare feet amongst the vegetables.  This has been a fantastic tomato and pepper year, and this week I started canning both. The result was a “found still life” on my kitchen cupboard.  Anybody for pickled peppers?   

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Any Day Now

The tomatoes are hanging…., heavy and abundant.  I’m so enjoying my garden every single day, and this is the best tomato crop I’ve ever had. Except for this one guy who is almost there, they’re all that translucent golden-green shade they have just before they turn red.    Tonight before supper I was out there beating the underbrush for just one really ripe one for supper.  No luck.  But…..any day now!  

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Squash Blossoms

While I’ve been off to Calgary and Nanton, my little garden has been very busy…first we had all that rain, and now lots of sun and heat. The squash have broken through the chicken wire fence (rigged up to keep the deer out) and long tendrils loaded with blossoms, gallop forth by about a foot a day!  I’m into the recipe books looking for recipes for squash-blossom-anything.  Ideas anyone?

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Pansies for the Porch

Last week when we went to the ranch for the branding, there on the front porch among the assorted spurred up boots, were these perky little pansies.  Trust my cousin Kerrie to have everything so beautiful.  She’s from a long line of famous gardeners and cooks.  

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Kitchen Combo

Time for a change of pace.  As I walked through my kitchen this morning, here was evidence of company for dinner the evening before, sitting on my kitchen counter, bathed in light from the window. A small reward for my careless housekeeping. 

5 X 7″ in 200lb w/c paper

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Soup for Supper

Well it’s been months and months since I’ve made a pot of soup.  When my son was young, he’d moan when I started making soups and chili and stews.  He’s a summer-loving guy and the sight of the old soup pot meant time for what he still calls “winter food”.  
It was fun to do this painting today though; love the shiny pot, and the wonky vegetables.  C’mon! I bet I’m the only artist to paint a gnarly ol’ turnip!  

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The Last Day for Leaves

Today was the last day…..several hard frosts this week and now a warm chinooky day…… golden-clad trees are no longer what we’ll find.  There’s  a knee deep drift of newly fallen leaves on my driveway tonight. It’s dark at breakfast, dark by supper time. Everybody has pumpkins on their doorsteps, and we’ve gone from our favourite grilling recipes to stew and chili.  

Having said all that, I do love the changing seasons.  I know that our sometimes severe winters, shape our national psyche in ways many of us aren’t conciously aware of. So here we go, in to winter…..let’s embrace the season.

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Di

 Here’s another of my attempts at portraiture.  This time the apologies go to my fiery little spark plug of a niece, Diana. A masters student at the U of A, Diana can  drive a combine, a tractor or a semi; she rides and is a proficient cowhand.  She can cook up a storm, she’s a good athlete, and her latest obsession is the folk art called “felting”, where you use raw wool to create beautiful art and wearables. Only in her 20’s Di already exemplifies the capabilities of the next generation.

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Echo- Dale Farm

 One of my favourite local haunts is Echo-Dale Farm.  Located in a beautiful coulee on the south side of the S. Saskatchewan River, it is a restored farm/ Regional Park.  There’s a fabulous swimming hole, boating lake, bar-b-q spots and the lovingly restored farm buildings. There are wagons and farming utensils in the shed, and heavy horses to pull them, a flock of assorted poultry (we all love poultry, right!?), a working blacksmith shop,  and fresh bread baking in that gorgeous old log house.  I was definitely born 100 years too soon.
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Pomegranate & Onion

 OK, I know these two are “odd bedfellows”…..I wonder how they met.   It’s fun though, to paint things just as you happen to find them on a shelf, or on a kitchen counter top. My friend John calls that a “found still life”.  I think I could come up with a really tasty salsa that included this mis-matched pair….OR write a steamy romance novel about their unusual liaison.

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