. Her holubtsi were perfectly rolled and bite sized, eh?
Potato/cheddar. Boiled and then fried for crispy goodness, with sides of fried onions, and mixed vegetables.
This makes me appreciate the efforts of my late grandmothers. They both made varennyky, lots of them, and while the two styles were slightly different, both were delicious. My paternal grandmother also made mouth-watering cabbage rolls.
Yumi cooked the Halloween pumpkin but it was pretty soggy and tasteless. I’ve never liked pumpkin pie, but I love banana bread, so . . .
Found a pumpkin bread recipe and it’s delish! Threw in half a cup of oatmeal and several tablespoons of roasted pumkin seeds.
Oh, yeah, I also used a couple of cups of the cooked pumpkin in a scalloped potato dish, and that’s good, too.
We took in the Mini Matsuri (festival) at Nikkei Place in Burnaby, BC, today. It was scaled down due to Covid, but it was still a lot of fun. Great food, displays, and entertainment.
Let’s move on to the food!
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Today I harvested the potatoes I had planted in a half barrel by our garage, and in two reusable grow bags on our balcony.
Strangely the barrel produced little, but the small balcony bags were great. I’ll have to figure out why this happened.
I’d used fresh planting soil in the balcony bags, but had reused the soil in the half barrel, so there may have been a nutrient difference.
What are you having for lunch, Daddy? Oh, leftover Gardein Meatless Ground pasta casserole?
What’s that? I’m supposed to be a carnivore? Bwa-ha-ha. . . 
I take after my late Mom. She liked to take recipes and “health them up.”
Yum, these turned out really well. Used the basic recipe off a Rogers Wheat Bran package for bran muffins, cut the sugar in half, added 1/3 cup oatmeal, about 1/2 cup of mashed pumpkin (yes, dating back to Halloween!), about 1/2 cup of blueberries, a dash of roasted pumpkin seeds, and some sesame seeds.
UPDATE (Dec. 21): Damn those were good :-). All gone four days later. Still some mashed pumpkin from Halloween in the fridge, so another batch on the way. . .
Cold, rainy day activities: baking and advanced theoretical physics.
Sora is a highly intelligent cat. While Daddy is interested in baking bran muffins, she’s more into string theory. . . 
Blueberry, sesame, oatmeal bran muffins. Oh, yeah, half a banana in there too. . .
On the way home from getting a few groceries in south Burnaby, BC, I spotted a patch of Himalayan Blackberries. I found a place to park, and checked them out. Seeing that about half were ripe and juicy, I emptied a water bottle so I could pick some to take home.
While considered an invasive species here, they are pervasive, next to impossible to get rid of. . . and taste delicious :-).
Fill ‘er up!
UPDATE: Later the same day.
When Yumi finished work, we headed back down the slope to the flats and picked nearly two gallons of berries in about half an hour :-).
