Angela's Grade 12 Graduation - June 23, 2014

Bobby's Grade 12 Graduation - June 17, 2019

Dale’s Baked Beans Recipe

• 4 cups white navy beans
• ½ pound salt pork – rinse in cold water – then cut into 1-inch cubes (or use Bacon, but don't rinse).
• 1 onion – finely cut.
• ½ cup fancy molasses
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• ½ teaspoon dry mustard
• 1 cup ketchup
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• Sort and rinse beans.

1. SOAK BEANS OVERNIGHT in cold water. Drain.
2. Add 10 cups cold water, cover, heat to boiling, then simmer 30 minutes or until nearly tender.
3. Drain – reserve the water.
4. Add ingredients (except pork/bacon) in with the beans, stirring gently to combine
5. Pour entire mixture into the bean pot.
6. Add enough reserved water to cover mixture
7. Place pork/bacon on top – push down into mixture.
8. Cover with lid and bake in oven at 250°F for 7 hours.
9. Add reserved water as needed to keep beans covered. One hour before serving, remove cover to darken up the beans. 

Homemade Baked Beans are happening soon

My Dad used to make homemade baked beans. I was not a big fan then. Times change and now I like them.

Portuguese Sea Salt

If I'm going to buy salt, it makes good sense to buy it from someplace that knows about salt! Coarse Organic Unrefined TRADITIONAL SEA SALT Portuguese Premium Grade 1KG

$10.42 on ebay.

Bought my own name

Yesterday I acquired the Internet Domain name: www.dalepoulin.com - it re-directs to: www.lottomars.com

Eleven Baby Meatloaf

My usual meatloaf recipe, except I used a ground-up prime rib roast and added eleven Babybel cheese in the middle.

Ellie checking out tonight's dinner

Steveston - March 16, 2019.

With the Girls in Steveston on a cold Winter's day>

The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

With a documentary on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns coming out soon on PBS, I'm thinking about this even more:

In the winter of 1968, I travelled with my Family from Nelson, BC Canada to Spokane, Washington USA to do some Christmas shopping. I was 16 years old (soon to be 17) and my Brother Tony was 18, at that time. We stayed overnight in a nice hotel that had an indoor pool.

In the early evening, Tony and I went down to the pool for a swim. While swimming, we met two young guys about the same age as us. The only thing different about them that I can remember was that their hair was cut very short. We got to talking with them; where you from? Are you staying long? Stuff like that.

Then they told us they were leaving for Vietnam the next day. They may have told us which branch of the US military they were in but I don’t remember. Neither Tony, nor I had anything to say about this. The four of us just continued swimming around, jumping in, yelling and splashing; just having fun.

I’ve thought about these two young men that went to the Vietnam War many times over the years. I wonder what happened to them; were they killed or wounded or did they make it back home safely? We had that War every night on the news for many years. I did not learn very much, except body counts. Later on it was Anti-War protests on the news mostly.

When I was older, in my 50’s, I learned more about Vietnam from WW2 onward and how terrible that War was. If I was born 50 more miles south, it could have been me going to War there in 1969 or 1970. Just like those two young Americans my Brother and I met so many years ago.

Dale Poulin, Surrey, B.C. August 2017