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Household Journal

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First 16 weeks of lockdown

Canada joined the world in instructing everyone to stay home, and maintain a ‘social separation.’ We recorded our life, and our dinner, during our stay-at-home period in Mississauga starting in mid-March of 2020. We thought it would be interesting to record our thoughts and observations as the world grappled with the COVID-19 virus in 2020. To date, we have recorded some four months of our thoughts as the COVID-19 situation has progressed locally, in Canada and around the world.

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Autumn-15

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A farewell to summer

While Bob followed the Toronto Blue Jays journey into the baseball post-season, and I tried to learn the cricket-like game, autumn was also a time to bid farewell to the things we treasure most about our home: our divine garden and the ability to have our ‘outdoor rooms’ during the good weather.

We enjoyed a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast this October. Thanksgiving weekend was a balmy throwback to summer, with daytime highs in the mid-20s. Bob wanted scalloped potatoes to go with the turkey dinner, and set out to make it with me. We were both surprised at how relatively simple it was to do, and how good it tasted.

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Kitchen Garden 2013

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New theme and kitchen garden

This summer, as with most years in our home, our dinner guests will dine on ingredients grown steps from the dinner table, and often harvested and prepared just for that one meal. Today, I harvested my first lot of garlic, shown in the picture opposite. I will have to let them dry out a bit, and then we are ready to cook with our very own garlic. This is a species of locally-grown and harvested garlic. It will take a few weeks for the garlic to cure, however.

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