I met James Littlehorse when he was selling and playing his music on the docks in Prince Rupert. His songs about travel in Northern BC and the Yukon hit home for me, as well as the most fabulous west coast fishing song, Devil and the Fisherman, written when he was living around Denny Island and Shearwater.
Going the Distance is the album I have and play from regularly on the Homegrown show
Kate Reid is a musician from Vancouver, her songs are amusing and heartwarming, as well as thought provoking and deep at the same time. Doin’ it for the Chicks is an album I play from quite a bit on the Homegrown Show. It includes such hits as Captian Cupcake, and Ain’t no Drama Queen.
Here are some links to her other albums if you would like to hear more of her music than what gets played on the Homegrown Show.
In every tale of myth and magic, when magic happens it is conjured into being by saying the magic words, a poem or a rhyme of some discript that causes the magic to happen. I am a poet, and I can write such a poem for you, as well as show you a technique to use that poem to create the changes you wish to see in your life. The method I use is a techniqe called EFT which works on the body mind connection. (link available soon) Its free to learn the basics, and on the EFT website, you can learn in depth uses of this technique.
I am a poet and an adventurer on the roads of life, with one hand in the dirt and one hand in the clouds. If you want a scientificly prooven method along with an element of maigc, I may be your choice of a helper.
I am a person who has found myself able to overcome dozens of problems using this technique, and gaining emotional freedom has helped me gain control over my own life and destiny.
EFT is a word based therapy. As a poet, I can help write out your story of the problem you wish to overcome, and find powerful evocitive phrases to help you get free of your problems.
I was on the way to becoming a practitioner under the original EFT method, which has since been changed. I have attended EFT workshops, watched the training videos and helped 100 people.
This service is being offered by donation.
I encourage you to donate twice, once upon contact, having me write the poem for you and guide you in its use, and once again when you see results in your life from being free of the problem.
And I thank you if you give me the opportunity to help bring healing to your life with this service, and with this use of my gift of words.
Hi. I have been searching for radiation free nori sheets to make home made sushi ever since I heard about radation leaking from the disabled melted down nuclear power plant at Fukashima Japan into the Pacific ocean.
The first thing I did after this disaster happened was buy a huge package of both nori and wasabi, which would have been made and exported before it happened. It is now 2014 and I have run out. I have been searching for a Canadian made source of nori sheets, but have not found any. I used to buy nori that was made in Richmond, years ago at the Chinese grocery store in Courteny BC, but since the historic Chinese grocery store closed down, I have not been able to find it. For a while, we made rice balls with sushi rice and fish inside them and rolled them in some locally harvested nori flakes, but it was never quite as good as sushi made with nori wraps.
So I asked at grocery stores and health food stores, at specialty stores and big box stores, if any one knew if the nori they sold contained radiation from the Fukashima nuclear disaster, and if anyone was trying to find a source of nori that was not radio active. Most could not answer.
As a commercial fisher, I realized that our fish and seafood was not being tested for radiation to my knowledge, by buyers or the goverment or anyone. This made me very uneasy. Nori is a seaweed grown off the coast of Japan and China, directly in close proximity to the worst ongoing nuclear disaster the world has ever known. And nowhere is there evidence of the main commercial crops of nori being tested for radiation. No storekeeper that I have encountered, even those who sell “organic” nori sheets can tell me if its been tested for radiation. So I finally found a source that tests thier product daily. Its not a source in BC like I am still hoping to find for some genuine homegrown nori sheets, but at least its tested, both on site and in north America. Here’s a link to the site that sells it.
and here is some information about the product, from their site. I searched for a Canadian, or North American supplier, but did not find one that shipped to Canada. Wonder if the Nori Sheets made in Richmond are still available anywhere? I have searched for them for years, but can not remember the brand name. At least these people are having theirs tested.
Product information
“About our Nori – Organic, Kosher, Radiation FREE Welcome to RawNori.com! Our Raw Organic Nori is:
Certified Organic USDA & EcoCert
Certified Kosher By Orthodox Union
RAW – UN-Toasted UnCooked, our nori is dried at under 85 degrees F.
Sealed in packages of 50 sheets for Freshness
Package has a Zipper Lock Seal to reseal and retain Freshness
100% Radiation and contaminant Free – tested in the USA every batch!
Our product is USDA / Ecocert Certified Organic, as well as Kosher Certified. In addition we also test at a independent Laboratory here in the U.S. for more then 450 potential contaminants including pesticide residues and heavy metals, as well as many different Isotopes of Radiation. Out Nori has come out 100 percent “Non Detectable” in every single category.
We use only 1 species (Porphyra Yezoensis) in ALL of our Nori production. This species is in the Red/Purple Algae family and considered the Highest in Nutrition. ALL of our Nori Sheets, Flakes, and Powder are all made from Porphyra Yezoensis and only the top 15 to 20 percent of Harvest makes are grade for item production. The sheets, powder, and flakes are all USDA Certified Organic, Ecocert Certified Organic and Kosher Certified
Our Nori is available in Flakes, Powder and Full size sushi Nori sheets. The sheets come sealed in a package of 50 sheets.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING NORI & THE JAPAN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER:
The Tsunami disaster occurred off the northern coast of Japan on the Pacific Ocean side. Our Nori growing site is in a 4000 acre Certified Organic growing area located below the southern tip of Japan in the Sea of Japan near the China coast. To be classified as Internationally Certified Organic growing waters, the area is weekly tested and must have an minimum of 3 year continuous “Clean” results to make this classification. The “Ecocert” program based in France, is much stricter then the USDA Organic program.
The prevailing winds and currents near Japan, travel from south to north, eventually circling around and head from north to south down the western coast of the United States. Even though there was virtually no threat to our geographic location, our factory conducted Daily Radiation Testing early on with continued testing still on going. All tests have shown 100 % non detectable results.
In addition, we send samples to an independent Lab located here in the U.S. (New Jersey) We test for all known isotopes of Radiation from earthquake disaster and have been found 100 % non detectable in all categories.
Please be assured that our Raw Organic Nori is safe and unaffected. We will continue to constantly monitor our supply to ensure the safety of our customers.”
So although it is grown in Japan, it is tested both in Japan and the USA. Most of the commercially available nori is not even tested. I know, I looked into this because I love sushi and I want to do my best to avoid radiation from the fallout of Fukashima. How can we continue to enjoy the seafood we love?
Not reckless abandon, but not needless paranoia either. The answer is to find a trusted and tested source.
Small Wood Stove for under 50$
A guy named Ricky who lived at the Res dock in Campbell River showed me how to make this tiny wood stove out of a stock pot. It was the handiest thing. It cost less than 50$ and ended up being the main source of heat I had for the first winter on my ferro cement sail boat.
During the first winter I lived on Cheng Shi, there was a terrible hurricane force storm in early November, that tipped over the float with the fuel dock on it.
Unfortunately I was heating with my diesel stove that winter… Suddenly there was no diesel available. The dock however, was being replanked and there were dry wood scraps all over the place. The stock pot stove proved itself to be more than capable of heating a 34 foot cement hull boat. If the right fuel was carefully chosen, the fire could be coaxed into burning all night.
Here are some important things to consider when building the stock pot stove:
You use the lid for the bottom. You need to fill it up with 2 inches of gravel and sand, scooped from a beach or wherever. This stops the fire from burning into your table or shelf where you install it.
You need to bolt it down with U bolts through the stock pot handles. The thin stainless steel can get red hot and pop and shudder. This will be dangerous unless the stove is bolted down.
It is best to mount it on metal or cement board for added protection, though Ricky just had his set up on a table in the galley.
You need a bigger piece of sheet metal for the door. It needs to overlap the hole. You make the handle and notches out of the piece you cut out for the door, cut in half. This is essentially your damper which controls the air to your fire.
If you use 3 “ drier vent for the stove pipe, you must burn it outdoors first, because the galvinized coating is poisonous, but it burns off in one or two hot fires.
You need to get a 3” fitting with an all around flange and fasten it over the hole with stove cement. You may need to get this made for you by someone who welds. This needs to be sealed completely or the stove may smoke. You can use high temp silicone or stove cement, even muffler tape to accomplish this.
You need to tape over the edges with silver, metal tape. Everything will be deathly sharp. You also need to tape over any places where the pipes join.
The stainless steel will heat up quickly and heat your space quickly, however it will not hold the heat. It will go cold the second the fire is out. A good idea is to surround the stove with bricks, rocks, cast iron, whatever you can that will hold the heat.
Although the surface area is tiny, this is a good wood stove to cook on due to its ability to heat up fast.
A stovetop fan will improve its heating ability greatly by circulating the hot air.
woodstove made from stainless steel stock pot
Who would ever think that chocolate and beets would go together? Its such a surprise to find that they do, quite well, in red velvet cake. A cake featured in the movie Steel Magnolias, in the shape of an armadillo. Of course, many modern day Red velvet cake recipies call for copious quantities of Red food coloring, but this is not something I would voluntarily include in any cake I make.
I learned how to make red velvet cake on one of my work trips to the west coast, where I had to buy groceries as I was on my way to the helicopter, and accidently got charged 13$ for 4 beets through a mistake at Thrifties. Always remember to check your reciepts folks, even if your on your way to a flight. So there I was with my horribly expensive beets, trying to think of something real special I could make with them that would make it all worth it. Which is how I came to learn how to make red velvet cake.
At this time, the sun was just begining to shine regularly, and it was time to get out the solar cooker. Or make a new one, since I didn’t pack my own with me. So I made solar baked red velvet cake. A cake baked in a solar cooker will take twice as long as a conventional oven, and may not rise as much. It will also be moist, more like a steamed cake, because solar baking requires glass ontop of the cake, a sealed in environment. You may have to turn the cooker so that it is getting maximum sunlight on all surfaces.
I used to not have an oven when I lived on my sailboat. So I made cakes and bread either in the solar cooker if it was sunny or on the Cobb BBQ. As an alternitive, I could also bake cake in my pressure canner. But nothing pleased me like baking it in the sunshine.
Here is the recipie
Solar baked Red velvet Cake
ingredients
¾ cup pureed beets
1/3 cup oil
¾ cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract or ½ tsp vanilla powder
1 ½ tbls cocoa powder
1 ¼ flour
½ tsp salt
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tbsp flax meal (optional)
3/4 cup liquids, either milk or yougart with a beaten egg in it
puree beets and oil together, adding sugar and vanilla. Seperatly combine dry ingredients, add to batter alternating between flour mixture and yougart mixture.
Pour into a flat, round cake pan or pie plate. To cook properly in the solar cooker, the dish must be black and have a clear glass pyrex plate overtop of it. Or the cake pan is set inside a larger black cast iron pan that will absorb and store the heat. Place this in the reflector once the thermometer indicated 100 o C or close to it. Solar cooking is not so much of an exact science. It will likely take 1 ½ hours, possibly more, depending on the intensity of the sunlight.
and if you would like, here’s a link to plans of how to build the solar cooker I am using to bake this cake. I made it on the scene from Tuk Tape, a mylar emergancy blanket and coroplast.
Here’s Rena Patrick, west coast poet, poetry set to music. Here’s where you can get her album, Saying the Magic words, which includes such hits as Ostrich Generation, the Bug Catcher, and Becoming Aware.
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They played the Mayday dance on Quadra Island last spring, with their unique and original style of country music from the islands. They have a place on the Homegrown show for sure.
A girl bluegrass style band from Victoria who played a great dance at the HBI in the winter. I am so glad to have their music on the Homegrown Show.
this is the main album I play. Here are some of their others
Here’s a link to his album, Making Waves, which I often play on the Homegrown Show
Great BC musician, I discovered his music at the Cortez radio studio during the early days. I especially like the poem Sea Fever, set to muisc and sung by him. His most famous song is Women of Labrador.
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