Witch Hazel is among my fave plants. It’s started blooming in High Park, and will keep blooming right to the end of the year!
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Witch Hazel
5 Card Stud
We’ve just published a new bonus mini-episode of The Agency, called 5 Card Stud. It came about as a follow-up to some discussion in Graceland Payback. Our plan was to make this a quick 10 minute episode, but both Candy and I talk a lot and the discussion was a lot of fun, so it ended up at around 25 minutes. You can grab it at iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Google Play, TuneIn or Podbean (as soon as their bots grab the feed) – or listen to it right here. Enjoy.
Attack to Build
Graceland Payback
Episode 5 of The Agency Podcast is now available.
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I’m having so much fun co-hosting this podcast. Each episode is an improvisational adventure. We both come to the session with a head full of ideas but each time the episode takes off into unexpected waters.
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This week’s discussion ranges from coping with green tomatoes to Hank Snow.
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Down in the Bottom
Wolf.
Razvrastanata
Razvrastanata, played by Matthias Loibner.
The Nocatee Shuffle Drag
I’d like to feature a song by a fellow I’ve somehow or another made friends with over the interwebs, named David Hampton Sawyer. David is a fabulous songwriter! Please check out his channel and show David some love by clicking the subscribe and like buttons.
Great stories from an American Master
This short video is more than wonderful.
Coming Soon!
Fans of Squeeze Box Man have been asking me, where’s Issue #3?
Fear not gentle readers, our 3rd issue will be ready to go to print soon. Here’s a taste!
27th Street Hot Sauce
I’ve been picking a steady stream of chilies from the garden for some time. I think the season is about done though, so today I picked a big bowl of chilies, all the ones remaining on the various plants we have in containers out front. Time to make some hot sauce.
I started by roasting the chilies, along with a cut-up Spanish onion and some green (as in not yet ripe) tomatoes. After roasting, I put all this into a pot to which I added malt vinegar, salt, and tomato paste, along with some honey and a little water. I brought this concoction up to a simmer and let it cook slowly for half an hour.
With an induction blender, I pureed these ingredients right in the pot, then let it simmer away for a while longer while I prepared a few jars. Given the amount of vinegar in my sauce, I figured water bath canning should work well, so that’s what I did. I wound up with 5 jars of hot sauce – 4 canned and one for the fridge for more immediate use.
By roasting the chilies and onions some to start, and including some green tomatoes, the idea was to create a more complex set of flavours in the sauce to go along with the heat. The result was a very tasty sauce which also has a good kick to it. I tested it by using some as a condiment on an omelet this evening. Very Yummy.
27th Street 