NOVA SCOTIA'S Provincial Berry - Blueberries

Wild blueberries are the rage.

Wild blueberries are a nutritious treat that is a good source of Vitamin C and dietary fiber. There is no fat, sodium or cholesterol and only 80 calories per cup of berries. As well, recent studies have shown that the pigments that give the wild blueberries their unique color provide many health benefits. 

http://www.nswildblueberries.com

Wild Blueberry Recipes

Wild Blueberry Smoothie
1 ¼ c wild blueberries
1 c. orange juice, chilled
2 c. fat-free yogurt
¼ c. fat-free or 1% milk
Combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth. Pour into two large glasses.

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Wild Blueberry Sauce
1/3 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 ½ c. wild blueberries
¼ c. water
1 tsp. lemon juice
Mix sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan. Add wild blueberries and water. Cook and stir over medium heat until slightly thickened. Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice. Great with pancakes and waffles.

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Wild Blueberry Grunt
Sauce:
4 c. wild blueberries
½ tsp. nutmeg
½ tsp. cinnamon
¾ c. sugar
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
½ c water
Dumplings:
2 c. flour
4 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. butter or shortening
Milk
Heat berries, spices, sugar, lemon juice & water in a skillet; boil gently until well blended & slightly cooked down. Sift flour, baking powder, salt & sugar into a bowl. Cut in butter and add enough milk to make a soft biscuit dough. Drop by spoonfuls into hot berry sauce. Cover tightly with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes (no peeking!). The dumplings should be puffed and well cooked through. Transfer cooked dumplings to serving dishes. Ladle sauce over top; serve with whipped cream or ice cream. Yield: 6-8 servings.

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Wild Blueberry Lemon Loaf
1 c. white sugar
½ c. margarine
2 eggs
grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
½ tsp. salt
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
1 ½ c. flour
½ c. milk
1 ½ c. floured wild blueberries
Cream sugar & margarine. Beat in eggs and lemon rind. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk. Fold in wild blueberries dusted with flour. Bake at 350°F for 50-60 minutes. While still warm, pour mixture of ¼ c. sugar & juice of 1 lemon over loaf. Allow to cool. Makes 1 loaf.

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Wild Blueberry Crisp
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Grease an 8x8 inch square baking dish.
Cream together:
1/3 c. butter or margarine
1 ¼ c. lightly packed brown sugar
Stir in until crumbly a mixture of:
1/3 c. all purpose flour
2/3 c. rolled oats
¼ tsp. cinnamon
Arrange in prepared dish:
3-4 c. wild blueberries (fresh or frozen)
Sprinkle with crumbs.
Bake in preheated 375°F oven for 40 minutes or until topping is golden brown. Makes 6 servings.

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Low Fat Wild Blueberry Muffins
3 ½ c. flour
1 Tbsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
2 eggs, beaten
½ c. vegetable oil
½ c. brown sugar
1 ¾ c. unsweetened applesauce
¾ c. wild blueberries
½ c. cranberries, chopped (optional)
¼ c. brown sugar (2nd amount)
Preheat oven to 375°F. Sift flour baking powder, soda and salt into a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, oil, brown sugar and applesauce; add to dry ingredients and mix until just blended. Fold berries into the batter and pour into prepared muffin tins, filling two-thirds full. Sprinkle tops with brown sugar (2nd amount) and bake for 20-25 minutes, until they are lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean. Yields 18 large or 24 medium muffins.

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Blueberry Crusted Salmon
25 ounces salmon fillet
Blueberry Crust:
7 ½ ounces fresh bread crumbs
12 ½ ounces fresh wild blueberries
½ tsp. pesto
Seasoning to taste.
Accompaniment:
4 c. cooked basmati rice
20 ounces fresh vegetables blanched and tossed in butter.
Make crust by mixing all ingredients for crust together. Sear salmon and top with crust. Place it on greased tray and bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes. Serve with rice and vegetables.

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Wild Blueberry Jam
4 ½ c. fresh wild blueberries
1/3 c. lime juice
½ c. water
1 Tbsp. grated lime rind - optional
1 pkg. powdered fruit pectin
4 c. sugar
In a large pan, combine the blueberries, lime juice, water, pectin and lime rind. Bring to a rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Stir in the sugar and while constantly stirring, bring to rolling boil again. Keep at a hard boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and skim foam from top if needed. Quickly spoon into clean jars and seal.

Harvesting of blueberries begins in August and runs into September.

Another taste of Nova Scotia

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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT The Rossignol Centre

Wednesday 22rd August 2012
EVENING AT ROSSIGNOL
6:30pm Refreshments
Program to open with Master of Ceremonies - Bobby Curtola
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Program includes: Fashion Show with Janette Georges on piano in the English Room, Jack Wynters reciting poetry in the Art Gallery & Judi Cleveland greeting in song in the Rossignol Hall.
Entrance fee - $20.00pp (cash only) Advance tickets available

Wednesday 29th August 2012
SONG & STORY HOUR
Children's story & song by Judi Cleveland
Two sittings: 3pm and 4pm
Children ages 4 to ages 8 - adults welcome
Entrance fee - $8.00 per child, accompanying adults no charge

Need a place to celebrate your:

• birthday
• anniversary
• wedding
• reunion or
• hold a meeting

book the English Room by contacting

Linda Jackson

902 354 3067 or 902 683 2048

Follow http://rossignolculturalcentre.blogspot.ca 

to keep up to date with new events

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Rossignol Cultural Centre - Liverpool's best kept secret

WEBSITE:

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The Rossignol Cultural Centre is located in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and is a charming museum hidden behind a wall of chain link fence. But don't let that dissuade you from visiting as there is a treasure trove of history inside what was once the public school of Liverpool. The Rossignol is a 24,000 sq. ft. newly renovated, multi-faceted cultural centre, featuring a variety of Museums, Art Galleries, Libraries and Wildlife. Since the Rossignol Cultural Centre opened July 20, 2002 it is one of the top 10 tourist destinations on the Lighthouse Route.

THE ENGLISH ROOM

NOW A CHARMING BANQUET ROOM

ready to cater birthday parties, anniversaries, meeting, confrences, reunions and/or any event that you require; even small weddings. And it is all arranged inside the walls and charm of a traditional English setting.

                                                   THE  WILDLIFE ART GALLERY

Plan your vist so that you can relax and enjoy Afternoon Tea that is served each Tuesday, Wednesday and Tursday at 3:00pm.

Come and stay for a day, or a week, or for a   ---- and escape from the usual. LIVE LIVERPOOL

Finding Your Way Around Town

Liverpool is small, quaint and friendly and there are never any worries about getting lost while wandering the town in search of the numerous museums and a taste of what life was like in the early days of Liverpool and surrounding region.

• The Hank Snow Museum is housed in the old rail station and is open year around filling the air with Hank Snow's songs and shelves lined with his life and history.
• Sherman Hines Museum of Photography takes the visitor on a walk through the eyes of those before us.
• Fort Point Lighthouse, circa 1855,  is surrounded by a park which is a great place for a picnic before stepping inside the lighthouse to blast the foghorn.
• Perkins Museum is inside the original residence of our infamous Simeon Perkins, circa 1766.
• Queens County Museum provides a look at

              - privateering exhibits
              - the Mi'Kmaq Exhibit   
              - the historical documents of the Bank of Liverpool (1871-1879)
              - and much, much more.

• And lastly but not least isteresting is the beautiful Rossignol Cultureal Centre where you can take a few steps back in time before sitting in an elegantly adorned coffee shop for a relaxing coffee or tea.

Then escape the heat of the day with a few hours at the beach. Follow the White Point Rd westerly to Hunts Point Beach, Summerville Beach, Port Joli and/or Port Muton's seaside; all are but minutes from Liverpool's main street. If you have room in your trunk for a set of golf clubs be sure to take in a game "Pebbles Beach Style' at White Point Golf. Or set off on a drive east of Liverpool for  a day on the sand at Beach Meadows Beach.

Inland adventures are a short drive on highway #8 to the Lake Rossignol Wilderness area:

 http://www.gov.ns.ca/nse/protectedareas/wa_lakerossignol.asp 

Collect a free GPS unit from the Region of Queens office and spend the day on a geocaching adventure; don't forget to check out the cache in the location across the old rail bridge.

If by chance you should lose your way  just ask our friendly residents the way and they will eagerly point you in the right direction.

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Home Based Business

In today's age of technology Liverpool is the perfect place to set up one's home based business. Below is a list of the top 10 successful home based businesses.

1. Affiliate Marketing / Ebay Seller

One of the lowest cost home based businesses to start is an affiliate marketing business, especially if you want your home based business to be Internet-based. It could be as simple as setting up a blog and reviewing products in certain niche markets, or alternatively you could learn how to sell items on Ebay for friends around the neighborhood and take a commission for doing so. The possibilities are endless.

2. Freelance Writer (Ghost Writing) / Article Writing

Many make a decent living out of freelance writing; with either ghost written pieces, topic related articles, short stories, or even technical specification documents.

3. Dog Walking / Pet Minding or Sitting

This industry is one of the fastest growing industries to date, with new products and services coming out every few months. Since more and more people are becoming time-poor, they are now looking for people to walk their dogs, or mind their pets while they are away on business trips or simply at work.

4. Business Mentor / Business Coaching

Being a business coach or mentor is probably one of the most profitable home based businesses a person could start. It’s best to start with local businesses then, expand from there. Many small-medium (SME) type businesses may not be able to afford a full-time expert or specialist, so they look for an alternative.

5. Personal Trainer

If you are fitness-minded, you could start your own personal training business, you could start with training people in their own homes, or even produce some short videos that you could sell online, since the cost of doing something like that is quite affordable now (Take a look at some of the fitness channels on YouTube).

6. Blogging

There are countless people on the internet who have started a home based business by blogging and are making as much as six-figures per year from it. There are a number of ways you could make money blogging, such as; displaying ads like Google Adsense throughout your site, offering unbiased reviews of affiliate products / services that you are promoting, providing helpful articles about a particular topic and then lead them to buying a product or service (eg. a coaching program for the topic you’re writing about),  tips or tricks about a certain product or service that help the reader get more out of it, or simply sell advertising space.

7. Photography

Are you a keen photographer and have your own camera? Then, you could look at photographing either people in their own home, scenery, or objects (eg. for stock photos), or if you have the room at home you could set up there, and get started for a few hundred dollars. You can also look at selling those photos online to stock image library sites like iStockPhoto, Fotolia and the like (make sure you get a signed release from the person/ people you’re photographing).

8. Technical Support

If you’re a wizz at helping people solve technical issues, then this may be the avenue for you. By starting a home based business offering technical support to your local area, you could then expand out from there, or you could even produce your own screen-capture videos that show people step-by-step how to solve their common technical problems that they could purchase right from your website.

9. Bookkeeping

By offering your services to local business owners one could build a nice client base without the overhead of an office, work according to your schedule and as much or as little as you require. 

10. Tutoring

You could start you own home based business tutoring students in their own home. Talk to the local schools within your district to determine if your services can meet their needs. If your talent is in acting and you could give acting lessons, or music lessons. There are many options.

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Atlantic Halibut

Atlantic halibut are distinguished by their flat shape and strange appearance due to the position of both their eyes located on the right side. Very little is known about the exact Atlantic halibut spawning sites on the Canadian east coast. Atlantic halibut migrations are of two types: vertical and horizontal. At sunset, halibut swim up the water column in pursuit of their prey that also migrate vertically towards the surface, and then return to the bottom at dawn. Although halibut can migrate long distances, they prefer to remain in the area where they were born. 

In 2008 approximately 500 metric tones of Atlantic halibut were landed with a value of more than $3.5 million; harvested in the Gulf by Quebec and the four Atlantic provinces. Various management measures are currently in effect for commercial halibut fishing on Canada's east coast, including the 1997 requirement that any halibut less than 81 cm long must be returned to the water.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada:

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/publications/uww-msm/articles/atlantichalibut-fletanatlantique-eng.html

Halibut dinner - You tube: http://youtu.be/OX25WuQ4jwQ