Tomcat Edibles

Summers winding down, Bruce and I have almost finished harvesting the garden. Next we will be looking at the fall planting, GARLIC is our main planting crop than it's the bulbs for our landscape gardens which are many. This year I am going to add alliums into my tall grasses to give some colour and texture during the summer season.  I have ordered a few dozen gigantic trio-coloured alliums which should be arriving soon with a few more dozen tulips and daffodils. We have a season here in Quesnel called the "brown season" it's the equivalent of living in a composter for about a month, it's when the snow goes and all the winters garbage, sanding gravel and mud appears, along with the road kill that has been buried in the snow banks for the pass 5 months.  So in Spring I love to have a explosion of colour...to make up for the a month of BLAH!!! 

Bruce has come out with his own label of edibles called Tomcat Edibles, he will be featuring a line of salsas made with green and purple tomatillos and a variety of red and green tomatoes.  His first salsa called "You can't grow tomatillos here...Roasted Salsa Verde"  hit the garden stand today. He is working on a green and red tomato salsa inspired by the duct tape duo of The Red and Green Show.  It's exciting to have a male canner in the Petty Catwater Kitchen.  I myself am working on a few exciting garlic products for the garden stand, Phantom Fog, Roasted Garlic Pate and Sweet Roasted Persian Garlic Crème Brulee...they will be hitting the stand when I can get Bruce out of MY kitchen!!! 

In winter Bruce and I head out to his wood working shop and fire up the wood stove for heat and build things for our cottage & gardens.  Last year I built our new garden stand, a few obelisk's and all the new window boxes and the sandwich board at the end of the road and Bruce built the island for our kitchen/living room.  This year we are still making a list of needs and wants...

 

Grow, Harvest, Cook, Eat and Build

 

Jenn