Jenny Bashutski – Bashutski Harvesting Ltd
We are going to try some canola today! After 15 days of rain, snow, and little sunshine, the sun is shining brightly today and there is a little breeze. Consequently, we are going to take a test this afternoon. It’s been a long month with very little field action, so I’m a little giddy about this prospect.
Monday is Thanksgiving here in Canada. Part of me is thinking, why couldn’t this nice weather have come last week, and it be cruddy on Thanksgiving day so we can spend the day with family. But in agriculture, it doesn’t matter if it’s a holiday or not. Mother Nature doesn’t care what day it is either! You do what you can when the weather is cooperating, not by what day of the week it is or what holiday it may be.
I spent many years hauling a typical Thanksgiving meal out to the soybean field in North Dakota and those are some of my favorite memories. Nonetheless, we are very thankful for the sunshine and the nice weather forecasted for the next three to four days. I truly think after the holiday, the weather will change and give everyone the chance they are so desperate for, to get their crops off and in the bin. We just need to be patient. It’s hard, I know! We are all counting on this crop to survive until next year. So, we continue on a wing and a prayer.
Today, I had pork stir-fry on my menu, and I needed to use the meat and the veggies up before they went to hell in a handbasket. Since there is talk of being in the field today, I went ahead and made it this morning and put it into the Crock-Pot to keep warm so we will have a meal ready when I get in, and I don’t have to think about it anymore today. Crock-pots don’t have to be used just for cooking something; they’re good for keeping already prepared meals warm. I often do this. The meal may not be as lovely as it would be if you cooked it and served it immediately, but it’s kind of like warming up leftovers – just as good! It also gives me a chance to clean up the kitchen so I don’t have to clean up as much at the end of the day when I’m exhausted. It’s a win-win! Here’s hoping we can get started in the field again. If not, I’ve got supper ready anyway!
Here is the recipe. I use whatever veggies I feel like or have on hand. You can use any kind of meat, as well. I serve it with either Minute Rice or steamed noodles, both take a matter of ten minutes to prepare, so it makes it a fairly quick meal when it’s already in the crock-pot😉
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Jenny Bashutski
Save RecipeIngredients
- 1 lb pork cut into strips
- 1 Tbsp corn starch
- 1 Tbsp spy sauce
- Mix all together and let sit while you prepare vegetables.
- 1 C. Shredded cabbage
- ½ C chopped celery
- 1 carrot, shredded
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 green onion, chopped.
- 2 Tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt (omit if not using low sodium soy sauce)
- 1/3 C vegetable soup stock
- 1 tsp. Cornstarch
Instructions
- Mix together well.
- Heat 4 Tbsp oil in pan over high heat and stir fry meat until cooked. Add all vegetables and stir fry until tender. Add seasoning sauce and mix well until sauce thickens. Serve over hot rice or Chinese noodles.
1. Be ready to go at the drop of a hat...sometimes without a lunchbox.
2. Has removed the word impossible from her vocabulary!
3. Can hold a baby, take care of a toddler and drive a tractor or combine all at the same time.
4. Must be able to cook for a crew - large or small.
5. Must be able to read minds.
6. Must be able to banter with a parts man until he realizes you DO know what you're talking about.
7. Must be the entertainment director for those rainy days.
8. Be a wife, mom, friend, helper, cook, problem solver, taxi driver or extra crew hand at all times.
9. Can handle the call that makes you react, "You need what? When?" Dropping everything you're doing to make it happen.
10. At the end of the day say, "I really do love this life".
