Happy Canada Day!! 🇨🇦
Tonight’s dinner features 100% Canadian beef with hand picked and fresh chanterelles, garlic and curly parsley and onions. Topped later with green salsa and aged cheddar cheese!!
A cloudy day on the lake! We started today with a slow peaceful morning in the cabin followed by a delicious breakfast cooked in the cabana. Later we shared my strawberry freezer jam with family with sourdough waffles and bread. After many casts out on the water, we enjoyed good conversation with a steak dinner cooked over the fire. The simple times are often the best times!! 💕
I love that!! They will remember these simple yet amazing times spent as a family! The gift of time together is priceless. iPads and video games provide a distraction and won’t be something they will look back and treasure although they will look back on this weekend for years to come! 😊🎉
Beautiful!! Sounds like a lovely way to spend time together as a family!
Back to the cabin life with one of my favourite people nostr:npub1h2ha54hr30ycq3mmd4d6hkf02e2uhvnvgtyxnxr0w0prd9k0khls7myfqm !! What could be better than dropping a line on a relaxing afternoon?!
GN 🌙
The Little Dipper sure is nice to see on a bright clear night!
After hand picking 24 litres of fresh strawberries, I sliced up12 litres to be freeze dried for snacks and long term food storage, some made their way to become fresh snacks and the rest was made into strawberry freezer jam last night!!
I went on a quest to find pectin that didn’t contain sugar. I discovered Pomona’s Universal Pectin which is imported from Italy and contains no sugar. The process was a tad different than what I’m used to. The pectin was caught under the blade during the blending process which lead to me mixing by hand and then straining the pectin through a mesh strainer. It was late and I needed to problem solve as quickly as possible.
The end result is a delightful jam made with a totally sugar free pectin and sugar was substituted with monk fruit which only requires a third of the amount.
I’d love to hear your go to jam recipes and any tips and tricks you may have to share! 😊
lol love this one especially the middle line!
This is so coincidental! We have an adoptive dog we named “Whitey.” He travels 3km away from his home to the property and sometimes spends hours with us and once overnight too! He definitely beats to his own drum as he does what he wants, where he wants, when he wants! 🤣
GM ☀️
I hope your day is as great as this brisket is going to be!!
Side note:
Totally proud of myself for handling this with my BARE hands!! I trimmed the fat and sectioned this into 8 roasts. The picture doesn’t show the size of this thing. I used to need to wear gloves to handle meat like this. 🤣
In today’s lesson of nutrition with Auntie:
This morning my niece was excited to tell me about these new electrolyte drinks. She said “auntie, you can have these! They don’t have any sugar or carbs.” I told her while they may advertise that there is no sugar that might not be actually the case. I shared that sugar is also hidden in the ingredient list being labelled as sucralose, fructose, glucose, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, etc. Sure enough the drink contains sucralose. I explained that where you find that ingredient in the list is how high that content is and if it’s one of the first few ingredients listed, it’s a definite no to avoid. While on the topic of reading ingredient labels, I told her that any item that she can’t pronounce or doesn’t know she shouldn’t be consuming. She quickly went to the cupboard of snacks looking up the sugar content and reading the ingredients. She couldn’t believe it. We then moved on to juice boxes. We played a game of “guess how much sugar this juice box has.” We came to one that she thought for sure would be the best juice box out of all of them and I asked why. I asked if it was because the juice box advertises that it’s a source of vitamin C right on the front. It turns out that juice box was not only the smallest size but also contained the most sugar coming in at whopping 10g of sugar more than the others.
Today she decided against grabbing extra “snacks” and skipped the juice box too.
My hope is that she shares this information with her friends and carries it forward in her life. These little teaching moments can have a profound effect and make a difference!
Exactly!! Missed opportunities, misguided and missed nutrition.
Good Morning!! ☀️
We have our first pepper!!! 🎉🎉
Checking out the garden feels like Christmas morning!! You just never know what you’re going to see or get!!
Amazing and you’ll be able to enjoy your vacation that much more!! I find whenever I deviate a tad from carnivore with a “treat” that my body is quick to show me I’m not treating it well! Stay the course! 😎
