~Framboise Manor~: Thanksgiving 2017!

Monday, October 9, 2017

Thanksgiving 2017!

Thanksgiving is our favourite holiday! or as jambaloney likes to call it "9 hours of cooking, dirtying every pan and pot in the house, so 2 people can sit and enjoy 15 different things on their plate" - bahahahah! he's a barrel of sunshine, that guy!!!

but i looooove a full spread of thanksgiving turkey dinner and jambaloney can attest to the fact that i can eat platefulls of turkey and gravy and stuffing and mashed and carrot and turnip for several days in a row - then i bust out the jams and start eating hot turkey sandwiches, cold turkey sandwiches, turkey poutine (it's at this point that i have to make more gravy from scratch as i like all of my servings of turkey to come in a soup bowl...as soup!). i can eat turkey everyday from canadian thanksgiving, to american thanksgiving (which we celebrate in november) and right up to xmas dinner. for 3 entire months of the year i can live off turkey and fixings!

it was an incredibly beautiful day......very warm.

cats were checked regularly for signs of being alive. and fed.

this one is just passing out,

we did a morning harvest:

and turned it into this:

the day called for a traditional thanksgiving dinner (lunch):

thai spicy noodles with peanut butter, coconut milk, a bunch of hot spices - regular thanksgiving fare.

ahh! but the beach called,too.

and we decided to have a thanksgiving menu that we either grew, foraged or fished.

the beach was amazing as usual.

i know i will cry for turkey and fixins' tomorrow, but for tonight this was our thanksgiving dinner.

the last 2 beautiful trout that jambaloney caught at the end of the season, and we froze, for this very reason!

a tomatoe and cucumber salad from our garden (minus the lemon and oil) and mussels that jambaloney picked for me today.

one of the best things about harvesting is saving seeds...we love saving our own seeds year after year.

and then there is this experience keeping us interested - collecting nasturtium seeds. some to be saved as seed and some to be turned into "poor man's capers".

i'll let you know how they turn out!

happy canadian thanksgiving day to all!

9 comments:

DawnOctober 10, 2017 at 4:24 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, that looks like a salsa you were having that is on the list for this week in my kitchen
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SusanOctober 10, 2017 at 12:39 PM
Oooh, Poor Man's Capers! I can't wait to hear how they turn out. I always plant lots of nasturtiums and save the seeds. I am with you on turkey. I almost like it leftover than I like it on the main day. I sure hope that our weather is more like fall by the time our thanksgiving arrives. xoxo
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KellyOctober 10, 2017 at 12:56 PM
I'm intrigued with your "capers". I've never grown nasturtiums and now I want to!
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Rain October 10, 2017 at 1:57 PM
Kymber, your first paragraph described our day yesterday lol...funny. Happy Thanksgiving! :) My eyes perked up at "turkey poutine" VERY good idea. I made a 10 pound bird and my gosh we have so many leftovers. We had rain all weekend, but it's nice and autumny here now! Your fish looks great! And what a nice beach day. I'm pretty thankful to live in Canada. All the furry family is getting along and our routines are slowly getting back to normal, I'm thankful for that too! :)
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Mike YukonOctober 10, 2017 at 3:22 PM
You're living the good life, keep it up, you're our inspiration. :-)
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Toirdhealbheach BeucailOctober 10, 2017 at 9:17 PM
Happiest of Thanksgivings, Jam and Kymber!
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Sandy LivesayOctober 10, 2017 at 11:45 PM
Kymber and Jambaloney,

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We hear you girlie, turkey can be served for day's beyond the actual holiday :-)
I see what you've done with the remaining trout, saved them for an amazing feast later on. Did you smoke the fish?
Do you feed your cat's a bit of turkey for a special treat? Always after eating turkey it makes you want to take a nice relaxing nap.....maybe the cat's are doing the same...Bahahahahaha!!!

Miss y'all, sending hugs and love your way.
Sandy
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Harry FlashmanOctober 11, 2017 at 7:07 PM
Looks like a good time will be had by all, four legged or two legged. I like the idea of using your own provisions, that really is what Thanksgiving was about, at least down here.

Glad all is well with you two in the paradise by the sea. I always get jealous when I see that beach.
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SolOctober 18, 2017 at 6:37 PM
I just wanted to say, I think you have the best, most human Prime Minister. Everyone could learn from him about actually giving a sh!t.

I hope you are both well.
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kymber here and talking about jambaloney.

i've always called him my angel. my rock. my best half. the best part of what i have always wanted to become.

he has a soul as big as the biggest mountain, he is strong, he is in incredible physical condition, he is 51 and yet most people think he is under 40. he is humble and modest, charming, gorgeous and will help anyone with anything at anytime. he never grumbles and only every now and again complains or is a tiny bit cranky (nothing that a hug can't fix!). he can cut both sides out of 70 tires in minutes, build raised beds from scrap wood that he drags out of the forest, weedwhack 800ft of our road down to the river, and haul more wheelbarrows of dirt, mulch, rocks and seaweed than is probably medically-advised. he's learned how to braid, make bread and no one makes better rice - not even the chinese. he supports my every, crazy endevour. he went 44 years without a driver's license and got his license after being trained by my crazily-wonderful french canadian friend in 2 weeks. she never stopped talking the whole time. in french.

he has biked everywhere his entire life, at one job he biked 24km EACH WAY. that's to and from! 24km to work AND 24km from work! oh and just accidentally has an honours degree in philosophy.

i believe that he is Our Lord's most beautiful and perfect creation. but i might be biased. he can very accurately shoot a ben pearson cougar re-curve from both the left and right. and his aim is dead on.

he is bow-legged and only 5'7", but has the most incredible eyes. and a tiny mole on his upper lip. he writes the most romantic "insta-poems". he tells me he loves me several times a day. he calls me "babe" and "honey". and he means it.
he loves hot sauce and spicey things like cayenne and banana peppers, he buys (or now picks) me flowers, he left a lucrative, high-paying IT job and his family to follow me here to this remote little island. he builds me shelves and washes all of our laundry with me by hand.

oh and he was baptized Anglican. and was an alter boy. sheesh. somehow, through my intervention, i am turning him into a pagan-christian-fundamentalist-confuscian. look, even i can't figure that out!

the name jambaloney is a nickname that i gave him over 10 years ago. he still uses it. he can be reached at "jambaloney@gmail.com". he loves comments or emails. and he loves me.

if i were given the opportunity to wish one thing for the world - i would wish that every woman on the planet had a jambaloney. i know that i could save the world this way. i have friends who have asked me to clone him. i am trying. believe me, i am trying. one day i will perfect the science involved, and when that happens, i promise all of you a jambaloney.

i love him more than...breathing, lobster, boiled dinner, fresh bread out of the oven, bugging out, singing back up for Madonna (ok...i made that one up!), fresh sheets on the bed, a glass of red wine after a long day, sunflower seeds, lavender, growing my own potatoes, T.S. Eliot, dancing, my babies (who are really just cranky old cats!) and the Bible.

i love him more than i love Framboise Manor. and i really love Framboise Manor.

About kymber

(this pic might seem odd. trust me, it's not. 20 yrs ago kymber went shopping with a girlfriend from the military and bought this dress. then she hooked up with that girlfriend recently. they caught up through email and one day kymberz friend mentioned that specific dress. kymber said she still had it (kymber still has her prom gown for crying out loud!). the friend did not believe it. so we had to take a pic of kymber wearing the 20yr old dress for her friend. kymber always likes to add accessories...and well, we had the bunny ears laying around. ya know, cuz everyone always has pink bunny ears laying around. ok, that's it...i am out of here! jambaloney)

what can i say about kymber?? A LOT!! most of it will have to wait for blog entries ‘cuz i just don’t have enough space here to do her justice…

so i’ll have to do my best… first and foremost, kymber is my partner and i will love her forever. she is the best partner anyone could ever have, i am one lucky guy!! she is 46, she is sweet as can be, smart as a whip, super cute, exceptionally feminine, strong as an ox, honest, kind, empathetic, wise, an amazing dancer, a master wit in speaking and writing….i could go on..i will!

at 5’ 1’’ she packs a wallop – a true force of nature - she is a master gardener and chef and spent 10 years in the Canadian Military – she has done 2 tours of Alert (the north bloody-cold pole). she is a UN-certified Korean linguist and spoils our 2 cats rotten. she also spent 12yrs working in the federal government, as a communications analyst at SolGen (now PSEPC) and Fintrac. she loves nature in the true sense of the phrase..the wildflowers, insects and birds here at framboise manor keep her entranced and captivated for hours.

anyone who is her friend knows that she will stop at nothing to help and heal, dedication and loyalty are an integral part of who she is and she is dead serious about anything she puts her mind to. yet she maintains the most delicate touch and a smile on her face always, never afraid to live and love no matter where and when.

she is the most genuine human being i have ever met! and she has encouraged me to embark on the most crazy and exciting adventure i could imagine… thank you babe - i sooo love you!!!

(and she can be reached at kymberzmail@gmail.com)