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Mr Beast Feastables vs Jersey Milk ( milk chocolate bar personal taste test)

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 Well, the Mr. Beast Feastable Bars have hit New Brunswick. Some bars assortment I have seen, is dark, milk chocolate, peanut butter, and crispy. I have not tried the crispy yet. But, Mr. Beast, the Youtube Phenom, has, indeed, brought a commanding chocolate bar to the market. It is a competing bar to the already existing brands out there. Now, I tried, the Jersey Milk ( Neilson) which is my preferred Milk Chocolate Bar, since I was a kid. I personally found ( this is my taste buds and yours may tell a different story), that the Jersey Milk was better than the Beast Bar Feastables Chocolate bar ( both bars nearly have the same ingredients, so if you read the back wrapper). But, Jersey Milk has perfected it, for a long, long time. But, The Feastable Beast Milk Chololate bar is close in flavor to it. But, once again, that is only my taste buds talking to myself. Yours may say something different. Jersey Milk is hard to beat, because, they got a tried tested formula. But, from one takeawa
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Barbue Sale is an old Acadian Recipe

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 Barbue Sale (Brill fish). Potatoes, Salted fish, carrots / turnips, and thick bacon. Then, you can have chow chow or pickles with it on the side.  You can soak the fish for several hours, boil it, then drain, retop up with water, to get most of the salt out of the fish. But, some people, like it more salty and others, not as much so you have to get it to where you want it...  A picture of a 2nd plate down below... Of course Cod is often used, but, Cod is easy to dissolve over time so you cannot boil it too long. But, soak it maybe longer to get the salt out of it... Salted herring is well loved also... But many bones in the herring, but, I prefer herring fried with a coating of flour on both sides in butter...
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Snow in Belle Baie, New Brunswick, Canada

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 The snow came down, today, in Belle Baie, NB, Canada. Here is a picture of the snow falling down, near the wilderness in Belle Baie! It was close to plus 1 Celsius today... 
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Porc Hock Stew

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 Well, the other day, I made some Porc Hock stew. Porc Hocks, the pig legs, are very tender if you cook it in a slow cooker for a few hours at a low temperature.  Myself, I just put 6 porc hocks in a pot, and fried them up in olive oil. Once browned, I added water, carrots, potatoes, turnips, onions, a bit of thyme ( not much) and 3 bay leaves on top. Salt and pepper, a half a tsp each to a tsp. Of course, the water level should be enough just so that everything is just covered. The cabbage, you can put in later, because it will dissolve in the stew. I added onion powder, a tsp as well. It cooked on the stovetop for an hour on medium to low boil, so that the flavors mend in. Also, the cabbage, should be added near the last 10 minutes or so. My onions did dissolve, in the broth... If you rather it does not,  add the onions later on as well. Here are some pictures of the chopping and the pot being placed on boil...  As I said earlier,  a slow cooker is the way to go... But, the porc hock
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The Dog begs for a little Christmas Turkey, and, why not...

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 And, the dog begs for some turkey for Christmas! Sure, he can have a few pieces! Cooked the turkey yesterday, from 10 am to 4 30 pm at 355 degrees ( it was thawed out overnight). A cup of water in the bottom of the pan before placing in the oven, stuffing the turkey as well. Then, I put the bacon on top, around 2 30 pm as to not get the bacon too over cooked. Many people, put, bacon all over the turkey on top, criss crossing it, and in many different ways. I just put two slices on top. Some, put it in between the skin and the meat on top, and, that is good also. The Stuffing, was Stove Top brand, as done per recipe directions, and I added bacon bits and cut up mushrooms in the stuffing. The stuffing was delicious. The gravy, I put in a few heaping teaspoons of cornstarch (with a little cold water,  mixing before adding) in the bottom of the pan, whisked it around, put it back to warm in the oven for 5 to 10 minutes, and the gravy formed itself in the bottom of the pan. Potatoes, carro
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Christmas 2023 and a New Year 2024! What is in store?

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 I see the amount of clicks on my blog, and say, cannot leave it at that... Without wishing all a prosperous, and merry, 2024!  And a Merry Christmas to all!  And it does not matter what religion you are. If you read the text of Christ, you will know, all he wanted to do was to help people in need. He did not weld a sword in his hand. Peace was his mantra. His cloak.  So, to all who have visited here, when times were down for me over the last 8 yrs or so, thank you. Big one. Part 5, could have been produced, long ago. I may, look at the files again, to see how everything is. Maybe, in the next few weeks, it could be produced. I have had a little better good luck, in the past little while... Things have cooled down, so to speak. I realize, how starving artists, have a hard time to get their productions out into the open. We live in a money driven society. Money, drives, everything, and, we do not like to see ourselves go short either for major things in the homestead. Things that may br
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Canada has a carbon tax. Something that will never work.

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Carbon tax. At first, the Canadian Federal Government, under the Liberals, unrolled a tax where 90 % of it was exposed to go back to the payers of the program.  Now, just that sentence alone. Think about it. 10 % going to schools, hospitals... I guess... And 90 % going back to the pocket that spent it... But, not your direct pocket. Not saying all of the provinces would have done it in the same way. At the first roll out, New Brunswick, the province in which I lived, just reduced the tax on gasoline to make up for the carbon tax increase. The feds said, no no, that is not right.. That is not what it is intended to be with this carbon tax.. So eventually, we may have gotten back one carbon tax check one year, and I truly forget. Now, far as I know, I never received a carbon tax cheque back to my pocket...  But I do know, of programs, that went to buy heatpumps for people under a certain income... To make them energy efficient to a degree in the winter, but to comfortably cool their home
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