Ness' Outpost

Sunday we went down to a little restaurant called the stockyards and had brunch, apparently they haven’t done brunch very often but are starting it up on the weekends.

I had a smoked green chili burger with cheese. It was really good.
I need to try smoking some chilies this year in my smoker for use on my own burgers and in my chili recipe. I recently watched a Bobby Flay green chili cheeseburger throwdown which gave me some ideas. Apparently refrying the green chili mixture on a griddle is a must.

Then we were off to the Wychwood seed exchange to try and find some heirloom tomatoes to sprout into seedlings and then transplant into the garden in late May. The place was packed! Probably because they made the Posted Toronto’s things to do this weekend list. There were all kinds of “crunchy” and “granola” types and then us. Grant and Chantelle would be proud! ;)

I found a nice little booth run by the people of Urban Harvest that had 4 seed packages for $10 so I picked the types I was interested in and we got out of there!

• Kellogg’s Beefsteak Tomato
• Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato
• A yellow tomaoto, which I can’t find on their site
• Genovese Basil

It’s probably not too late to pick up some seeds – I saw an ad in the local Mississauga paper for a seed saturday. You can also order these direct by mail.

I figure I should put the tomato seeds in pots around March 5th — 80 day seedlings — but the basil only takes 40 days.
A little python helps those too lazy to pull out a calendar and count days.

>>> import datetime
>>> end = datetime.datetime(2010, 05, 24)
>>> print end
2010-05-24 00:00:00
>>> seedling = datetime.timedelta(80)
>>> print end - seedling
2010-03-05 00:00:00

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