Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳

Planting edibles for home cooking. Garden & food photography. lnvesting. Family:@EarlaRiopel @NYCARE_Wellness @Albert_Riopel @ERwellnessPosts @BLSBC #ANRtechs

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

It's start of the weekend! It means, I have to cook extra! As usual, we'll be at our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 property this weekend. I'll be doing yardwork, mostly gardening 👩‍🌾 related activities. As for my husband @albert_riopel, likely he'll be doing some cabin building 👷‍♂️ and related hobby activities.

Anyway, here's what I cooked tonight, and likely our food for the weekend for the three (3) of us: me (@EarlaRiopel), my husband, (@Albert_Riopel), and my 78 years old mom.

My mom has a strict diet due to health issues (high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis & Alzheimer), so I have to watch what I give her. I usually cooked food that she likes and avoid negative health complications. So far, it has been over two years, and she never caught any flu or common colds. She eats well; double or sometimes triple of the portions of my own food consumption.

Anyway, before this writing gets too long, here's what I cooked tonight and for the rest of the weekend.

Main Menu:
*Seafood Medley on Coconut with Mixed Vegetables
* Fried Marinated Fish
* Fried Prawns
* Baked Chicken (see prior post)
* Tortellini Beef Pasta (see prior post)

Side Dish:
*Rice

Ingredients:
- Seafood Medley
- Mixed Vegetables
- Fish
- Prawns
- Coconut Milk
- Herbs 🌿 & Spices
- Rice

Cooking Instructions:

- First, fry Seafood Medley on an olive oil until 75% to fully-cooked.
- Then, add herbs 🌿 & spices (parsley, oregano, salt, pepper, garlic, and onions); fresh or powdered are both fine.
- Add few drops of soya sauce and oyster sauce (optional).
- Add the mixed vegetables.
- Then, add a can of coconut milk, and stir.
- Taste it. If it's too salty, add a small amount of milk. If it's too bland, add soya sauce or salt.

- On a separate pan, fry the fish (marinated on salt, pepper, garlic, parsley & onions). Once fried, put in a serving platter.

- Also, on a separate pan, fry the prawns and put them in a serving platter.

- If possible, cook the 🍚 rice, while cooking the above main dishes.

Finally, serve all the food at the same time.

Enjoy! 🙂

Fun Facts:
- Some of the mixed veggies were from our gardens in our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 properties.
- The zucchinis were from my eldest daughter.

I'll post a few photos 📸.

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

I didn't do much of preparation for tonight's dinner. My husband, @albert_riopel prefers grilled chicken in a conventional oven, with just a sprinkle of pepper.

Main Dish:
Baked Chicken Breast

Side Dishes:
Mixed Vegetables
Basmati Rice

Ingredients:
- Chicken Breast
- Pepper
- Mixed Vegetables

Instructions:
- Sprinkle chicken breast with pepper.
- Place the marinated chicken breast in the conventional oven for 30 minutes, at 400 Fahrenheit.
- Make sure to turn both sides to evenly cook the chicken.
- Once it's fully-cooked, serve it with mixed veggies and steamed rice.

Fun Fact:
The fresh green beans veggies were from gardens at our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 properties.

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

I didn't do much of preparation for tonight's dinner. My husband, @albert_riopel prefers grilled chicken in a conventional oven, with just a sprinkle of pepper.

Main Dish:
Baked Chicken Breast

Side Dishes:
Mixed Vegetables
Basmati Rice

Ingredients:
- Chicken Breast
- Pepper
- Mixed Vegetables

Instructions:
- Sprinkle chicken breast with pepper.
- Place the marinated chicken breast in the conventional oven for 30 minutes, at 400 Fahrenheit.
- Make sure to turn both sides to evenly cook the chicken.
- Once it's fully-cooked, serve it with mixed veggies and steamed rice.

Fun Fact:
The fresh green beans veggies were from gardens at our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 properties.

[Albert Riopel VE7JW 🇨🇦🇺🇲 @albert_riopel]

It's Delta's Annual #ComFest Swap Meet soon!

Date: Sunday, October 4, 2026

Time: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Venue: South Delta Recreation Center, 1720 56th Street, Tsawwassen, Delta (just off Highway 17)

As usual, we'll be there representing 🇨🇦 #ICOM @CAN_ICOM's #Marketing #Advertising #Sales Team!

For details, see Delta Amateur Radio Society (DARS) website: https://t.co/trZ2RQikVK

#DARS #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #HamR

See you there!
^ ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)

Images Sources: Google AI, Delta Amateur Radio Society (DARS), Et al.

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

I didn't do much of preparation for tonight's dinner. My husband, @albert_riopel prefers grilled chicken in a conventional oven, with just a sprinkle of pepper.

Main Dish:
Baked Chicken Breast

Side Dishes:
Mixed Vegetables
Basmati Rice

Ingredients:
- Chicken Breast
- Pepper
- Mixed Vegetables

Instructions:
- Sprinkle chicken breast with pepper.
- Place the marinated chicken breast in the conventional oven for 30 minutes, at 400 Fahrenheit.
- Make sure to turn both sides to evenly cook the chicken.
- Once it's fully-cooked, serve it with mixed veggies and steamed rice.

Fun Fact:
The fresh green beans veggies were from gardens at our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Lantzville 🇨🇦 properties.

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

My husband, @albert_riopel just loves pasta! So, I made another Tortellini Pasta dish tonight.

Main Menu:
*Tortellini Beef Pasta on Alfredo Sauce

Dessert:
*Cheesecake with Fruits on Top (store-bought)

Main Menu Ingredients:

- Tortellini Pasta
- Beef Hamburger Meat
- Alfredo Sauce
- Herbs 🌿 & Spices (garlic, onions, pepper, salt & oregano)
- Soya Sauce & Oyster Sauce (optional)
- Mushroom soup
- Cream or milk

Cooking Instructions:

For Pasta,

- Put the Tortellini Pasta in a boiling water until its 75% fully-cooked, and before adding to the Pasta Sauce. Drain water and put it aside.

For Beef Hamburger Pasta on Alfredo Sauce,

- Fry the beef hamburger meat until 75% fully-cooked.

- Add herbs & spices (fresh or powdered)

- Add the Tortellini Pasta, and mix it with the beef hamburger pasta sauce.

- Then, add the mushroom soup and stir.

- Right after, add the Alfredo sauce and stir.

- Once its fully-cooked, add the right amount of soya sauce & oyster sauce.

- If you notice that the pasta dish is a bit salty or thick, add a cup of milk.

-If it's the other way around, maybe a bit bland, add small drops of soya sauce or sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.

Finally, serves the Tortellini Beef Pasta on Alfredo Sauce with garlic bread, and bowl of salad 🥗.

Fun Fact:
Some of the herbs, spices, and salad came from our gardens in Lantzville 🇨🇦 property & Point Roberts 🇺🇸 property.

Enjoy!

[NYCARE (RiopelFamilyInvests) @NYCARE_Wellness]

My husband (@albert_riopel) & I (@EarlaRiopel) started investing almost 15 yrs ago.

We tried earlier, but having three children who were underaged then, a single-income household was toughed on a family of five.

In addition, my mom became a widow in March 2012. When my dad died, he was a Canadian 🇨🇦. So, we ended up taking care of my mom, especially now that she has a few medical issues, including Alzheimer disease. Also, she cannot walk far because of her diabetes and arthritis diseases.

Anyway, year 2012 was a new beginning for all of us. Lots of great opportunities. My husband had accumulated around $200,000 of RRSP Contribution Limit.

Since, I needed cash to buy spousal RRSPs, the only capital I had was an 'unused BMO credit card' with $10,000 limit, and had an 8% interest rate.

Since then, my husband and I have been using someone else money to make money 💰, and bought assets that appreciate, like real estates and marketable securities.

So far, we bought five (5) real estates properties since 2015. We sold our first one in mid-April 2024, after 8.5yrs of ownership. We still have four (4) real estates properties right now.

We don't have much marketable securities left, maybe just $65,000 combined between me and my husband, as of today. We mostly used up our Individual and Spousal RRSPs for those 5 real estate properties.

Going back to Canadian 🇨🇦 school in my 50s wasn't so bad (on-and-off US CPA exam candidate as well). I must have received around $160,000 with zero (0%) interest, between 2018-2025; it helps a lot. By the way, about $25,000 of student aids were considered grants (free money 💰). Thus, it pays 75% of my tuition fees and other related school fees. So, it just really my time as my opportunity cost.

Anyway, the take away on this long writing ✍️ is, if you think you can take a few calculated risks. In addition, you have access to fundings, so when opportunities 'knock at your door 🚪, you're ready to capitalize on those opportunities.

Use your cash first to invest. If you don't have any, use your good credit standing. You can use low interest credit cards (at 8%), credit lines (at 7%) or RRSP loans (at 4.5%) and buy RRSPs to save taxes (as tax refunds) on individual income, buy a home 🏡 as a first-time homebuyer(s).

"Leveraging can be a investment strategy, just make sure you can manage the risks."

Note: Depending on your financial background, the above scenario might not work for you, so make sure you ask the right people or do more research. Thanks. 🙂

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[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

My husband, @albert_riopel just loves pasta! So, I made another Tortellini Pasta dish tonight.

Main Menu:
*Tortellini Beef Pasta on Alfredo Sauce

Dessert:
*Cheesecake with Fruits on Top (store-bought)

Main Menu Ingredients:

- Tortellini Pasta
- Beef Hamburger Meat
- Alfredo Sauce
- Herbs 🌿 & Spices (garlic, onions, pepper, salt & oregano)
- Soya Sauce & Oyster Sauce (optional)
- Mushroom soup
- Cream or milk

Cooking Instructions:

For Pasta,

- Put the Tortellini Pasta in a boiling water until its 75% fully-cooked, and before adding to the Pasta Sauce. Drain water and put it aside.

For Beef Hamburger Pasta on Alfredo Sauce,

- Fry the beef hamburger meat until 75% fully-cooked.

- Add herbs & spices (fresh or powdered)

- Add the Tortellini Pasta, and mix it with the beef hamburger pasta sauce.

- Then, add the mushroom soup and stir.

- Right after, add the Alfredo sauce and stir.

- Once its fully-cooked, add the right amount of soya sauce & oyster sauce.

- If you notice that the pasta dish is a bit salty or thick, add a cup of milk.

-If it's the other way around, maybe a bit bland, add small drops of soya sauce or sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.

Finally, serves the Tortellini Beef Pasta on Alfredo Sauce with garlic bread, and bowl of salad 🥗.

Fun Fact:
Some of the herbs, spices, and salad came from our gardens in Lantzville 🇨🇦 property & Point Roberts 🇺🇸 property.

Enjoy!

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

Start of the week, meaning I have to check my inventory of food ingredients that I have accumulated in the past few days.

Usually, if I cannot cook some fresh ingredients like meat and veggies right away, I put them in the freezer.

Like for example, this weekend we were at our cabin in Point Roberts, WA 🇺🇸 (right at Roosevelt Way, Border of USA 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦). We usually, just buy ⛽️ gas, but this time we stopped by at our favourite supermarket (Point Roberts 🇺🇲International Market) bought a few ingredients for a Sunday BBQ dinner.

But we're so tired of doing yardwork, so we decided to postponed the BBQ for next week.

It's mostly gardening for me (@EarlaRiopel) and finishing the roof shingles for my husband, @albert_riopel, this last weekend at Point Roberts.

We're back now at our New Westminster place. Tonight, I cooked a very simple dinner.

This is what I cooked:
(1) Stir-fry Pork & Mixed Veggies
(2) Steamed Basmati Rice

Instructions:
- Crushed a few cloves of fresh garlic.
- Slice a fresh onion.
- Fry the pork with garlic & onion.
- Add few dashes of herbs 🌿 & spices, such as salt, pepper and parsley.
- Add a few drops of soya sauce.
- Once the pork is at least 65% fully-cooked, add all the cut-up veggies in the pan.
-Mix all the ingredients and taste it once it's 100% fully-cooked.
- Add extra salt or pepper, or soya sauce, only if needed.
- Finally, serve it with steamed rice.

Fun Fact:
- Some of the veggies came from our gardens in Point Roberts 🇺🇸, Lantzville 🇨🇦 & New Westminster 🇨🇦 (herbs only).
- Zucchinis (from my eldest daughter).
- Broccoli 🥦 & Carrots 🥕 ( store-bough).

[NYCARE (RiopelFamilyInvests) @NYCARE_Wellness]

I have been buying a few $SPCX.TO lately. It's a good strategy to shorten the gap from the IPO price & current market price.

So far, even after selling $SPCX.TO of over $6,000 (used for emergency expenses related to newly bought vacant land development), I still have investment of around $14,700 in $SPCX.TO.

It's still down around 15%-17%. Thus, when it gets closer to under 5%, I usually takes it out; hedges the funds and diversified my portfolio. I find it a good portfolio risk management 📊.

It's a win-win situation or at least minimized losses. At the end, everybody wins through diversification & hedging, a portfolio risk management strategy better than gambling your 💰money, with no investing & trading system in place. ^ ER ✍️ (@earlariopel)

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At Planet Harvest, we know that food is medicine. I’m proud to partner with @EliLillyandCo and @thrive to deliver 13,500 fresh food boxes—more than 200,000 pounds of nutritious fruits and vegetables—alongside brain health resources across 10 U.S. cities.

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[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

Start of the week, meaning I have to check my inventory of food ingredients that I have accumulated in the past few days.

Usually, if I cannot cook some fresh ingredients like meat and veggies right away, I put them in the freezer.

Like for example, this weekend we were at our cabin in Point Roberts, WA 🇺🇸 (right at Roosevelt Way, Border of USA 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦). We usually, just buy ⛽️ gas, but this time we stopped by at our favourite supermarket (Point Roberts 🇺🇲International Market) bought a few ingredients for a Sunday BBQ dinner.

But we're so tired of doing yardwork, so we decided to postponed the BBQ for next week.

It's mostly gardening for me (@EarlaRiopel) and finishing the roof shingles for my husband, @albert_riopel, this last weekend at Point Roberts.

We're back now at our New Westminster place. Tonight, I cooked a very simple dinner.

This is what I cooked:
(1) Stir-fry Pork & Mixed Veggies
(2) Steamed Basmati Rice

Instructions:
- Crushed a few cloves of fresh garlic.
- Slice a fresh onion.
- Fry the pork with garlic & onion.
- Add few dashes of herbs 🌿 & spices, such as salt, pepper and parsley.
- Add a few drops of soya sauce.
- Once the pork is at least 65% fully-cooked, add all the cut-up veggies in the pan.
-Mix all the ingredients and taste it once it's 100% fully-cooked.
- Add extra salt or pepper, or soya sauce, only if needed.
- Finally, serve it with steamed rice.

Fun Fact:
- Some of the veggies came from our gardens in Point Roberts 🇺🇸, Lantzville 🇨🇦 & New Westminster 🇨🇦 (herbs only).
- Zucchinis (from my eldest daughter).
- Broccoli 🥦 & Carrots 🥕 ( store-bough).

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

We just did our last harvest at Point Roberts 🇺🇸 this weekend. So, time to do more planting this coming weekend.

So, I got a least 30 small packs of 20 variety of seeds.

Also, I bought another 6 packs of 2lbs of snow 🫛 peas to plant as well.

Most of these seeds will be planted in our Lantzville 🇨🇦property. Lot size: .51 Acre.

Not so much planting in Point Roberts 🇺🇲 property. We don't have the land, space, irrigation & proper soil to grow there. Lot size: 7,498 Sq. Ft.

It might work in our Skagit Valley 🇺🇲 property (near Milltown Boat Launch). Since the soil, and the Skagit River is just right in front of our property. Lot size: 3.5 Acres.

I know most of these seeds will grow on these three (3) land properties: Lantzville 🇨🇦, Point Roberts 🇺🇸 & Skagit Valley 🇺🇸.

Not so much in our New Westminster 🇨🇦 condo place; maybe a few containers 🌱, just for seedings or seedlings in the balcony, which likely we'll be shipped to Lantzville 🇨🇦 property every second weekend of each month, and plant there permanently.

By the way, we'll be at Lantzville 🇨🇦 property next Tuesday, the 29th of September.

Likely, we'll be back on October 3rd, evening for @albert_riopel's work, (@CAN_ICOM) #ICOMCanada 🇨🇦 #ICOM participation at the Delta #ComFest Amateur Radio #SwapMeet 📻, Sunday Morning, October 4, 2026. He's representing the #ICOM #ICOMcanada #Marketing Team.

Of course, I'll be there as well, as Albert's #ComFest helper/volunteer at the #ICOMcanada's table(s).

Anyway, we might drop by at our Point Roberts 🇺🇸 (Delta, BC 🇨🇦) right after the Delta #ComFest. Our Point Roberts place is just the other side of the USA 🇺🇸/Canada 🇨🇦 Border. Likely, we'll water the plants and do more gardening👩‍🌾 & little cabin/cottage🏡 development 👷‍♂️ for Albert. 🙂

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

Recent harvest from our properties in Point Roberts, WA USA 🇺🇸 & Lantzville, BC Canada 🇨🇦.

For a small garden in Point Roberts, USA 🇺🇸, we have a few veggies🫛🫘🥔🥕🫑🌶🥬🥗 to munch.

As for our Lantzville, BC 🇨🇦 property, it's our first planting. They are mostly in pots and other containers this year. It was too hot this summer, most of my peas 🫛 dried up even before flowering.

However, recently, we have a newly installed water💧well, and is fully usable. Thus, we have 'endless of water' (sort of) at our Lantzville 🇨🇦 property! So, 🫛snowpeas planting continues all-year round.

Finally, as for our Skagit Valley 🇺🇸 land property and New Westminster condo property, not much planting this year, due to time and location; probably next summer.

Anyway, I took a few photos 📸 of our small harvest 🫛🫘🌶🫑🥔🥬 🥗both sides of the Canadian 🇨🇦 & USA 🇺🇸 Border.

Bye 👋 for now. ^ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)🙂

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

Start of the week, meaning I have to check my inventory of food ingredients that I have accumulated in the past few days.

Usually, if I cannot cook some fresh ingredients like meat and veggies right away, I put them in the freezer.

Like for example, this weekend we were at our cabin in Point Roberts, WA 🇺🇸 (right at Roosevelt Way, Border of USA 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦). We usually, just buy ⛽️ gas, but this time we stopped by at our favourite supermarket (Point Roberts 🇺🇲International Market) bought a few ingredients for a Sunday BBQ dinner.

But we're so tired of doing yardwork, so we decided to postponed the BBQ for next week.

It's mostly gardening for me (@EarlaRiopel) and finishing the roof shingles for my husband, @albert_riopel, this last weekend at Point Roberts.

We're back now at our New Westminster place. Tonight, I cooked a very simple dinner.

This is what I cooked:
(1) Stir-fry Pork & Mixed Veggies
(2) Steamed Basmati Rice

Instructions:
- Crushed a few cloves of fresh garlic.
- Slice a fresh onion.
- Fry the pork with garlic & onion.
- Add few dashes of herbs 🌿 & spices, such as salt, pepper and parsley.
- Add a few drops of soya sauce.
- Once the pork is at least 65% fully-cooked, add all the cut-up veggies in the pan.
-Mix all the ingredients and taste it once it's 100% fully-cooked.
- Add extra salt or pepper, or soya sauce, only if needed.
- Finally, serve it with steamed rice.

Fun Fact:
- Some of the veggies came from our gardens in Point Roberts 🇺🇸, Lantzville ��🇦 & New Westminster 🇨🇦 (herbs only).
- Zucchinis (from my eldest daughter).
- Broccoli 🥦 & Carrots 🥕 ( store-bough).

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

It's weekend! So, I have to cook extra since, Albert (@albert_riopel) & I (@EarlaRiopel) will be at our Point Roberts, WA USA 🇺🇸 for the weekend doing yardwork, including gardening for me & shed/workshop for Albert.

I think he's going to finish the roof shingles this time, and put more shelves for his Amateur Radio 📻 hobby!

Anyway, here's what I cooked tonight:

1) 🍲Porkchops🥩 with mushroom soup & veggies, & rice 🍚as side dish.

2) 🍛Cod fish 🐟 with mushroom soup & veggies, & rice as side dish.

Instructions:

1) For Porkchops 🥩.

- Fry porkchops in an olive oil, until it's 80% fully-cooked.

- Then, add other herbs 🌿 & spices (parsley, oregano, black, salt, pepper, onion & garlic powdered).

- Add few spoons of soya sauce to taste.

- Then add cut-up mixed veggies.

- Then, pour a tin of mushroom soup. Mix it with the rest of the ingredients.

- Taste it, add salt or pepper or both, if needed.

- Serve the Porkchops & mixed veggies with rice or pasta or mashed potatoes as side dish.

2) For Cod Fish 🐟.

-Fry Cod Fish with olive oil until it's 80% fully-cooked. Then, put aside the fish on a platter or plate.

- Then, cut some fresh garlic, onions, peper, and other fresh herbs 🌿 like parsley.
Or
- Add sprinkles of oregano, black pepper, salt, garlic & onion powdered.

- A few drops of soya sauce to taste.

- Cut some mixed veggies. You can use any fresh & frozen veggies you like.

- Pour a tin of mushroom soup or coconut milk.

- Once the veggies are 80% fully-cooked, add the cod fish on top of the veggies.

- Try not to stir the cod fish with the veggies, it can get mashed if you're not careful.

- Better to put the cod on top of the mixed veggies, cook it for another 15 minutes; let the cod simmer. Make sure to turn it over, so both sides are equally cooked.

- Taste it, add salt or soya sauce or pepper or both, if needed.

Serve Cod with Mixed Veggies with rice 🍚, mashed potatoes, or boiled pasta.

Enjoy!

Fun fact:

I used some fresh veggies harvested from our gardens in Lantzville 🇨🇦property & frozen ones, harvested from our Point Roberts 🇺🇲 property.

Also, my eldest daughter brought home some zucchinis last night from her boyfriend's place; grown by his mom, so I added that too. Thanks.🙂

I have a few photos 📸 for you.

Until next cooking.

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

Happy birthday @kimbal 🎂🎉🎉 Thank you for 54 years of joy. Love you so much.🥰🥰🥰

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

It's weekend! So, I have to cook extra since, Albert (@albert_riopel) & I (@EarlaRiopel) will be at our Point Roberts, WA USA 🇺🇸 for the weekend doing yardwork, including gardening for me & shed/workshop for Albert.

I think he's going to finish the roof shingles this time, and put more shelves for his Amateur Radio 📻 hobby!

Anyway, here's what I cooked tonight:

1) 🍲Porkchops🥩 with mushroom soup & veggies, & rice 🍚as side dish.

2) 🍛Cod fish 🐟 with mushroom soup & veggies, & rice as side dish.

Instructions:

1) For Porkchops 🥩.

- Fry porkchops in an olive oil, until it's 80% fully-cooked.

- Then, add other herbs 🌿 & spices (parsley, oregano, black, salt, pepper, onion & garlic powdered).

- Add few spoons of soya sauce to taste.

- Then add cut-up mixed veggies.

- Then, pour a tin of mushroom soup. Mix it with the rest of the ingredients.

- Taste it, add salt or pepper or both, if needed.

- Serve the Porkchops & mixed veggies with rice or pasta or mashed potatoes as side dish.

2) For Cod Fish 🐟.

-Fry Cod Fish with olive oil until it's 80% fully-cooked. Then, put aside the fish on a platter or plate.

- Then, cut some fresh garlic, onions, peper, and other fresh herbs 🌿 like parsley.
Or
- Add sprinkles of oregano, black pepper, salt, garlic & onion powdered.

- A few drops of soya sauce to taste.

- Cut some mixed veggies. You can use any fresh & frozen veggies you like.

- Pour a tin of mushroom soup or coconut milk.

- Once the veggies are 80% fully-cooked, add the cod fish on top of the veggies.

- Try not to stir the cod fish with the veggies, it can get mashed if you're not careful.

- Better to put the cod on top of the mixed veggies, cook it for another 15 minutes; let the cod simmer. Make sure to turn it over, so both sides are equally cooked.

- Taste it, add salt or soya sauce or pepper or both, if needed.

Serve Cod with Mixed Veggies with rice 🍚, mashed potatoes, or boiled pasta.

Enjoy!

Fun fact:

I used some fresh veggies harvested from our gardens in Lantzville 🇨🇦property & frozen ones, harvested from our Point Roberts 🇺🇲 property.

Also, my eldest daughter brought home some zucchinis last night from her boyfriend's place; grown by his mom, so I added that too. Thanks.🙂

I have a few photos 📸 for you.

Until next cooking.

[Earla "Home Gardener Chef"👩‍🌾 👩‍🍳 @ERGardenerChef]

It's Pasta Night!

Well, my husband, @albert_riopel has been requesting a Pasta dish!

So, here it is! It's quite an easy fast meal to cook.

"Tortellini on Pasta Tomato Sauce with Beef Hamburger"

Cooking Instructions:

*Put Tortellini Pasta on a boiling water until 80% full-cooked.

*As for the Pasta Tomato Sauce with Beef Hamburger,
- Fry the hamburger
- Add some herbs 🌿 & spices such as oregano, parsley, black pepper, garlic and onion (fresh or powdered)
- Add dice of fresh tomatoes 🍅 & fresh peppers 🌶 🫑 & leaves 🍃 (use some harvested from our Lantzville, BC 🇨🇦 property).
- Add a jar of Prego Sauce
- Add a tin of mushrooms (fresh mushrooms is fine).
- Add cubes of cheddar cheese 🧀

* Mix the boiled Tortellini Pasta to the Pasta Tomato Sauce with Beef Hamburger. Simmer for at least 15 minutes.

*Make sure to taste it, if needs extra salt 🧂 or pepper or both.

*Finally, serve the Tortellini Pasta Dish with Baked Pizza 🍕 Bread or garlic 🧄 🍞 Bread. Enjoy!

By the way, my husband, Albert loves it! He said, "It tasted good, just the right mixed of ingredients for Tortellini Beef Pasta! ☺️

[Albert Riopel VE7JW 🇨🇦🇺🇲 @albert_riopel]

Probably, do more set-up with the new 'Amateur Radio Shacks!

Likely, we'll add the 2nd shed 🏗🏡next spring, year 2027 at Point Roberts, WA, USA 🇺🇸.

As for the Lantzville, BC 🇨🇦 property, we might need to build the other 2nd shed right away. We need more workshop space in our Lantzville 🇨🇦 property, especially heading to the wintertime ❄️.

Overall, we need extra space for gardening tools, small building tools & machineries 👩‍🌾👨‍🔧 for both properties, and likely with the 3rd property in Mount Vernon 🇺🇸 (Skagit Valley-near Milltown Boat Launch).

Anyway, we'll post the two(2) Amateur Radio 📻 Shacks current status here.
^ ER ✍️ (@EarlaRiopel)

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Trillionaires…they’re just like us!

Welcome to the club, Elon!

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

My closet is turning into a micro data center. I will soon need watercooling and power generators. Not sure how I ended up here, but it made sense at that time.