The Food Corner

by Paul Cormier, Salamanders of Kemptville

The origin of the Hamburger has been in dispute for quite some time. However, the name itself is probably an indication of its true origin. In the 19th century, minced beef and onion patties were served on a plate rather than bread, took their name from beef raised in the countryside around Hamburg and became Hamburger Steaks. Since they were often served with bread or as a sandwich, one can infer that placing the patty inside a bun was a natural evolution, particularly in the US. Meanwhile, of course, the Hamburger has become a staple dish all over the world. Now, you can surely get a ¼ inch by 4 inch piece of something that is called a Hamburger but tastes a lot like cardboard at certain fast food joints; or, you can have a real, honest to goodness HAMBURGER. This recipe is how our family treats the Classic Hamburger. Classic Hamburg

Ingredients

2 pounds of medium ground beef (up to 25% fat) at room temperature

2 pounds of ground pork (it comes in at about 15% fat) at room temperature

½ cup of sweet onions, finely chopped

½ cup of steel ground oatmeal

2 eggs

¼ cup of your favourite sauce, e.g. Catsup, BBQ sauce, Korean BBQ marinade

3 tablespoons of crushed garlic

A couple of dashes each of Worcestershire and Tabasco Sauce ing electricity, they use the environment as their source of heat. There are different models of heat pumps, including air source, ground source, and water source heat pumps. “This isn’t just straight electricity,” added Rick. “Air source heat pumps – yes they’re running with electricity, but they’re creating their own heat.”

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·Spray a cookie sheet with Canola oil

·Thoroughly hand mix all of the ingredients in a large bowl

·Hand fashion thick patties of ¼ pound of the mixture and place on the cookie sheet

·Place your cookie sheet in the freezer, let freeze, remove the patties and store in a freezer bag

·When ready to cook, take out however many patties you need and defrost

·You can then either: broil or bake them in the oven, fry them or BBQ them

Serving

Now comes the fun part. "Dressing a Hamburg" is a work of art. First you need a good bun, such as Grahame's. Some people like to toast the bun; my preference is to leave it alone or warm it slightly in the microwave. You place your cooked patty on the bun. Then, you can dress with a slice of onion or tomato, slather with Bacon Jam (recipe of 13 September 2021), homemade or green relish, mustard (I prefer a grainy one from Mrs. McGarrigle's) or anything else that suits your taste buds. Some folks have to have Catsup on their Burg, others not. The Classic Hamburger allows for a lot of tastes. At Salamanders, we even serve a Hamburger Soup from time to time!

The Hamburger isn't just a summer treat, it's great family fare all year round. We can only manage to eat one per person at our table; big appetites will require two. So enjoy and please provide me with your take on the Classic Hamburg at pcormier@ranaprocess.com.

At the Ottawa Heart Institute on Tuesday March 7, 2023, age 78. He is survived by his beloved and cherished wife of 52 years, Bonnie (Bonita); sister Nora (Ken Vince), brothers Jim and Angus (Sami Dent), Sister-in-law Pat (Fern Marques), brother-in-law Peter (Kathy) Proulx and numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews and cousins. Predeceased by his parents Flora and John Livingstone (Ancaster, Ontario). Also pre-deceased by brother-in-law Paul Proulx (lovingly remembered by Carol and Mary Lou). Greatly missed by cousin (and life-long partner in various escapades) Lawrie Livingstone; dear friends Cy and Julie McKenna and Irene Murphy. He was a proud Mason and former Master of Temple Lodge 665, Ottawa and member of the Scottish Rite, Valley of Ottawa. Peter was happiest when he was working on his home, which he built and which he never considered finished; riding his mower to ensure the grass and shrubs met his standards; teasing his friends and neighbours and reading through his 900+ cookbooks to plan meals and gatherings for his family and friends. He leaves behind a legacy of humour, joy and respect for his honesty, caring, generosity and kindness. The family is particularly grateful to the doctors of the Ottawa Heart Institute for their kindness and compassion: particularly Dr. Robert Chen, Dr.Hadi Toeg, Dr. Michael Froeschi and Dr. Chidam Yagappan and to the wonderful nurses in the unit who cared for Peter tirelessly and also comforted and supported Bonnie. Particular gratitude also to Greer and Shelly Knox and Robert Mead for their unceasing concern, care and support; to Magdalena and Tad Adams and to Owen Severn. A Memorial Service for Peter will be held at the Kars Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes, 1610 Roger Stevens Drive, Kars, Ontario, on Wednesday, May 17th at 1:00 p.m. followed by a reception.

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The Weather with Connor

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another week of The Weather with Connor. Last column, I talked about my top 3 favourite storm chases I’ve ever been on. This week, I thought I’d talk about the story of my worst storm chase.

Disclaimer: I know this storm was a huge deal for many, many people and turned their lives upside down. I am not diminishing that, just talking about my chase day when it happened.

The date is Saturday, May 21, 2022. It was a warm late spring day, and thunderstorms were forecast across a wide area from the Eastern Ontario region, all the way to the Quebec City region. The thunderstorms in the Eastern Ontario region were supposed to fire up in the early afternoon, and generally be non-severe in nature. Parameters were not all that impressive around here. Southeastern Quebec, however, was supposed to have a big day. A tornado outbreak was actually possible that day, and a tornado watch was issued in the early afternoon as storms started to fire in the middle of the afternoon.

The Quebec event was pretty hyped up in the weather community. For multiple days in advance, weather models were consistently showing an environment capable of producing tornadoes in isolated supercells. On Saturday morning, I took one final look at the models, and headed out to my target area: Trois-Rivières, Quebec. This was the furthest east I’d ever chased, but I knew the terrain was good from previous times scouting the area on Google Maps.

I packed my car with my chasing essentials. Cameras, dashcam, snacks, and an overnight bag for a hotel in case I chased into the night. I left at about 8:30 am that morning and began my 4 hour drive to my target. So far, so good, nothing has gone wrong with my day.

About 2.5 hours into my drive, I stop one final time to look at the models and current radar. At this point I’m well past Montreal, so there’s no turning back. During this stop, I begin seeing tweets and reports about a terrible storm tearing through Southern Ontario. Models hadn’t picked up on this storm until the morning it was happening, so it was unexpected by me and others in the chasing community. Anyway, I continue my drive towards TroisRivieres, thinking there’s no way that strong of a storm will make it all the way to the Ottawa area.

At about 12:30 pm, I get to Trois-Rivières, and begin the toughest game there is: sitting and waiting. Storms are expected to fire in the next 2-3 hours, so I head down to the St. Lawrence River right in town to get a good viewing area for each direction.

Around 1pm, I start looking at the Ontario storm again. It strengthened even more and was just going through Peterborough at the time. At this point, I sounded the alarm that something bad was coming. I remember word for word what I typed on Facebook that afternoon, “A destructive Derecho is heading straight for the Ottawa Region. Winds of 120km/h+ are likely”.

I was 4 hours away from home waiting for storms, while the storm of the decade was heading straight for my stomping grounds of Eastern Ontario. It was a terrible feeling knowing something terrible was going to happen, and I wasn’t there to see it, chase it, or report on it. Before I even saw a storm in Quebec, my day was already kind of a bummer.

Anyway, let’s get back to Quebec. Storms indeed fired around 2:30 pm in the hot and muggy 32 degree weather. I crossed over the St. Lawrence River to get on the northern side of it, and headed towards my target storm about 20 minutes west of Trois-Rivières. That storm, along with pretty much every single other one around there, wasn’t able to get its act together. Storms were high based (meaning the clouds weren’t low to the ground), and honestly not all that pretty.

At the time when I started to leave the Trois-Rivières region, I started to really figure out what happened at home in Ottawa and around the area. That Derecho really tore places apart, from completely destroying forests and powerlines, to in some cases, homes. I was disgusted with my decision to chase 4 hours away from home at this point, and it made for a really long drive home.

On my way home, I actually intercepted the Derecho in Quebec, as it had made its way further east out of Ontario. I was just west of Sorel-Tracy at 5:30 pm when I got into it, and I ended up recording a 74km/h wind gust on my Kestrel Meter with my hand hanging out the window on the side of the road to do so. The winds took down many trees along HWY 40 in Quebec, and took out power.

After that interception of the Derecho while it was weakening, I decided to end the chase, get gas, and go home. I was disappointed the entire drive that I wasn’t home to chase that storm, and Quebec’s storms being a bust didn’t make that feeling any better. I had just missed a once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime, storm that was only 30 minutes north of my house in Winchester. Without a doubt my worst chase ever.

I don’t think we’ll see a storm like that again for a long, long time.

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Sex, gender identity and pronouns

referring to themselves or others, depending on their gender identity.

by Zara Zrudlo

Sex, gender identity and pronouns have recently been a very commonly discussed topic, but why are we talking about them so much, and why do they matter? And what can we do to be more supportive?

In this ,I’ve put together a compilation of some basic information. Some definitions to start off:

- Sex is what people are assigned at birth based on their external genitalia: male, female or intersex— people whose sex organs don’t fit into either of the binary genders.

- Gender Identity is how people really feel on the inside, regardless of their sex.

- Pronouns—he/him, she/her, they/them, ey/eir— are what people use when

People often think of gender as one or the other, male or female. In reality, it is a spectrum! In that spectrum, there is a huge space between male and female, with many gender identities in that gap. Some examples include non-binary, where a person does not identify with being a man or a woman, and gender fluid, where a person’s gender identity fluctuates through the spectrum of male, female and the wide space between.

The variety in gender identities are supported by a research study done by Cambridge University. They studied the brains of 10,000 people and found that 25% of brains were more typically female, 25% were male and 50% showed characteristics from different parts of the spectrum, some completely in the middle, some to either side. This may contribute to the multitude of gender identities, but not everyone who’s brain isn’t extremely male or extremely female identifies as nonbinary.

Sometimes people’s gender inside is different from the gender they were assigned at birth—people like that are called trans or transgender. There is actual science showing that this isn’t just a mental construct, it is actually in our DNA and brains. For example, the brain of a person who was assigned male at birth but identifies as a female will exhibit more female characteristics than someone who was assigned male at birth and identifies as male inside as well—cis-gender.

For hundreds of years, people’s pronouns—he/ him, she/her, they/them, ey/ eir— and sex have been determined by their genitalia. However, as I’ve described above, it’s a lot more complicated than that, and has been for as long as humans have existed.

A common question is ‘Why would we even use pronouns other than she and he in the first place?’ Calling people by their pronouns is a matter of respect. It’s similar to remembering someone’s name, and calling them that, not just a name you think would fit them. It fosters