It’s almost that time of the year where children go back to school and we slowly see a change in colour as we pull out the sweater weather attire. Everyday operations continue to pivot towards the “new normal”. The world of real estate will see a consistent rise in demand for homes of a more […]
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Quarantine times taught us all the importance of making the most of our homes and outdoor space. Join Sarah Logue, RE/MAX Escarpment Team Logue Realty and Jason Anderson, Carved in Stone as they walk you through the various elements involved in Landscape Design. From gardens to 3D renderings to installing a pool or building a strucuture for outdoor entertaining, Carved in Stone can do it all.
Welcome. Sarah Logue here with Team Logue.
I just wanted to welcome everybody as we join Jason from Carved In Stone, our landscaper who’s going to take us through some of the projects he’s been working on. Jason this is a pretty cool time to be a landscaper. One you can work outside in the freedom away from people and two it seems like all of our clients are requesting amazing backyards knowing they can’t get on a plane and vacation outside of their backyard. I feel like everyone’s asking me for pool referrals amazing landscaping referrals are you finding the same in your business?
We’ve noticed I think is that people are spending a lot more time at home and they’re kind of realizing that their backyards aren’t really up to snuff, their property isn’t really up to snuff and they’re really looking at doing stuff now knowing that they’re gonna be spending a lot more time at home.
It’s so true now we’ve had varying levels of requests from people I just wanted to make sure people understood what your company entails like there’s landscapers that just do a patio, or a deck or a little garden and then there’s landscapers that can build you a full outdoor structure with barbecue space and entertainment space. Can you handle all those levels of backyard entertaining?
For sure I mean our specialty definitely is the whole design-build process whether you’re looking for a pool, landscape lighting, stonework, concrete work, outdoor structures, outdoor fireplaces we’ve pretty much covered all of our bases we’ve got some great trades that help us with our framing and our electrical and all that but aside from that we pretty much handle everything in house.
That’s amazing so you guys can give us the whole design right. So if I look at a plain backyard like this you can transform it into my dream oasis?
Yeah for sure we work with a couple designers locally and everybody’s trying to stay on top of trends. We’re also trying to set new trends so we don’t want to be just your cookie cutter landscape project, we want to be able to give you something that nobody else has, something that when somebody comes into your backyard they’re gonna ask you, “who did the work?”
I have seen a lot of your work and I would say one of the unique things about your company is although your style is throughout all those projects you do trend set to the depending on the client and the house, I’ve seen traditional work by you, I’ve seen modern work by you, I’ve seen in-between so you do meld a little bit to the clients wishes and it’s not like this is what’s gonna work and you’re stuck to this one style, so that’s impressive.
Every every customers kind of has their own style they have their own inspiration of what they’re looking for and with the diversity of the products that we’re using now we really have the ability to cater to any style and really bring it to or customize it for the homeowner.
So anyone looking to drop in a pool an outdoor entertainment space an outdoor barbecuing space or just a simple deck and patio they can reach out to you and get a design done for that.
Exactly yeah they can reach out to us. We’ll get back to them in a in a timely manner, we’ll set them up and we’ll be able to provide them with 2d rendering 3d renderings and basically take it from there.
Amazing. Thank you. So cool can’t wait to see your next project.
Thank you.
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hi I’m Lee-Ann Santos i’m Team Logue’s in-house designer and home stylist and tonight I’m gonna be making a butternut squash soup with a rosemary crueton.
So to start I always chop up a full big onion a little bit of carrot and celery diced and I throw that into hot olive oil to get it translucent and to get it softened up before I move on to adding the parsley and cilantro which I will actually throw that in a little bit later. I’ve just got it chopped and ready to go I use a box of vegetable stock but one of the things that I like to add in are these little bullion cubes and I buy the McCormick’s were vegetarian but these are a chicken taste but they’re actually vegetable based and they have brought my soup game to the next level. The spices that I’m gonna add into this soup today and you can add in whatever you like or whatever you have but I’m using ground coriander, some tumeric, garlic powder, a little bit of salt I’ll add pepper in as well there’s some fresh ginger and some fresh garlic and I will throw the spices into the celery onion and carrot mixture once that gets going before I add to stock.
So I’ve got some olive oil into the pot that I get nice and hot I’ve already prepped my squash and carrots. I do about one and a half carats here that I add in to boil later on when when I add in stock some water my bullion cubes and all that. So for now we’ll add in the celery and the carrots I will just stir this around until it’s nice and translucent and softened down so our vegetables are cooking really nicely here so I like to add all of my spices in so that they the heat brings the flavor out of them. So mix in there and then I’ll cook it first couple of seconds you can start to smell it you’ll know that it’s heating up they taste great as a combination and I will now add in all of my squash and carrots so that they can cook for a quick moment with spices as well before I add in any of these liquids. So I’m going to just break up the bullion it’ll break naturally but I just tend to break it up as i put it into the mixture add some pepper give that a little stir around the tumeric give everything a really nice color as well. I always add some tumeric and it’s very good for you.
Okay and now I will add in some stock and today I’m using a president choice organic vegetable broth but you can use whatever you have on hand so you can add in one full broth box or you can make your own just say yes I do like to add in some water as well I never just use the store-bought stock I do like it but I always add some water in two cups of water so while I’m waiting for the stock to come to a boil I’m gonna get my croutons ready for the oven I’ve turned it on to 400 so give it kind of hot I may end up boiling them a little bit near the end but for now we’ll just sprinkle olive oil all over it so yummy I’m gonna add some dried rosemary if I had fresh I would use fresh absolutely but I just have dried for today so that’s fine living my best quarantine life.
I’m gonna use a little bit of dried parsley as well just because I like it and some garlic powder as I tend to put garlic powder on everything. Just mix it around I think I might need a little bit more olive oil actually but you can do it through your own likeness whatever works for you know just try to get all the spices incorporated in there. Let’s see there might be enough so you just sort of mix it all around get it sort of into one level on the pan so everything can bake off nicely and we’ll flip it in about five minutes six minutes and see how it’s toasting. So I’ve got the croutons in the oven I’ve got the stock starting to come to a boil and I’m also going to add as a topping to the soup some pan-roasted pumpkin seeds. Alright so I just do it in a dry pan and just you know whatever just sprinkle a bit every one in there and then I’m just going to do them with a dry pan over high heat until you start to smell them and then once you do I just take them off and pop them into a bowl so that you can sprinkle them on the soup. Okay so I blended everything until the vegetables were soft which they are now with a fork I’ve added in the cilantro and the parsley and I’m just going to use this blender to immersion blender to to grind everything together. You can be sloppy in your own kitchen. Let me just wipe this up.
We’re going to garnish it with our croutons which toasted up really nicely I didn’t even have to boil them they just got nice and browned in a 400 degree oven and that’s just a 70% rye bread I had left over from cobs yesterday and I didn’t want it to go to waste so that’s how why I decided to make croutons for it.
Enjoy.
Joshua from Team Logue here gear just doing our kitchen series roasted lamb with roasted vegetable, carrots, green onion, sweet potato. 3.5lb lamb, roasted vegetables cooked for hour and 45 minutes at 350 degrees left under foil 15 minutes ready to cut and eat. Enjoy.
Hi this is Kristen from Team Louge and I’m going to be your host for tonight’s dinner.
Tonight we’re gonna make one of my family’s favorite, chicken enchiladas. So let’s get started!
So the first thing we’re gonna do here is make enchilada sauce. So basically there we go, I’m gonna pour 1/4 cup of vegetable oil into the pot, I’m gonna do that I’m going to add equal parts so 1/4 cup of flour and effectively we’re making like a roux just to thicken our sauce just to give it a little bit more oomf and to stick to our enchiladas as we go.
So just as this heats up I’m going to stir it together let it get all combined so that’s all consistent. Okay so to that I’m gonna add some strain crushed tomatoes I like these I think they’re called Posada they seem to be nice and smooth so they work out well. So we’re gonna add that now I’m gonna go ahead spice this up a little bit.
So I pre measured out some of my ingredients, I’m gonna add about three tablespoons of chili powder to give it that nice Mexican flavor and then we’re looking at a teaspoon of cumin I have one teaspoon each of garlic powder and onion powder and then about one and a half teaspoons of oregano just so that the tomatoes are not super tart we’re gonna put in about a tablespoon of brown sugar and of course that’s sort of all our spices are in there stir it up it’s sort of that nice dark rich brownie or color because of the chili powder.
So I’m just gonna turn that down to sort of medium-low pop the lid on it. Okay we’re back and it’s time to start assembling our enchiladas so our sauce has cooked down a little bit and come together and is a little bit thicker. Earlier today I just cooked up some boneless skinless chicken breasts just put them in the oven with a little bit of chicken broth and some garlic and salt and pepper and cook those at 400 degrees for about 30 minutes.
You can buy a grocery store chicken and just shred that out if you’re pressed for time and use that or even those packages of like chicken that already comes to cook to prepare you can do that as well. I think this was like four chicken breasts and I’ll feed my family of six.
So what I’m gonna do is I’m going to take about half of the sauce that we made and I’m going to add this into the chicken and I’m gonna save the rest is gonna be our topping maybe even more like two thirds.
Now this is the basic you know filling along with cheese what I will do is I’ll make a couple like this and then I’m gonna add a little bit of spice because we have people in our family and they like a little bit spicier and some that are super sensitive to spice and sort out a little bit so make a few and then and we’re just gonna get that mixed into the meat. That’s mixed up now what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna start assembling so we just have your basic tortilla shell there was a little trick to this that I’ve learned over the years when I first started making these I would actually have a really hot pan of oil on the stove and I would blast the tortillas really quickly so that they would get a little soaked into them but not too much and that way they don’t dry out when they’re in the oven because obviously bread in a hot oven will get really crispy and we don’t want crispy we want nice and sort of soft and chewy.
I’ve learned to cheat over the years with cooking spray. So all I do is I give it a little blast both sides softens it up a bit then I’m gonna take my meat, I’m gonna kind of eyeball it as I said I think I did four chicken breasts it’s gonna end up making eight to ten we have our good old shredded Mexican cheese I’m gonna put mine on spicy ones into a pan I got a little spray my pan so I’ll probably do three or four for the kids that don’t like spice and then what I’m gonna do after that is I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to add some crushed red pepper flakes probably about one to two teaspoons depending on how spicy you want it and then I also have some cut-up jalapeno peppers I’ll put it in there add that and then I’ll keep assembling and I’ll show you the next step when that’s all done.
Okay here we are so we’ve rolled up all our enchiladas and now we’re going to put the finishing touches on them before they go into the oven.so we’re simply going to smother some of this sauce on the top these are my non-spicy babies for the spicy children let’s throw a little bit more cheese okay then these beauties are gonna go into an oven that was preheated to 350 degrees just for about 30 minutes. Really everything’s cooked in it the chicken was precooked so we just want to warm that up melt all the cheese make it gooey goodness and then we’ll come back into serve dinner.
Okay so here we are it is dinnertime at the house, we really need to like have a better name for our family or something but anyways here we are we have our chicken enchiladas spicy and not spicy we’ve paired it with some Spanish rice a little bit of the salad some fresh avocado and then cucumbers and carrots and stuff for the people that are maybe a little bit picky. Some of these people in the background anyways thank you very much for watching this, I hope everyone is keeping safe and healthy and stay home stay safe.
Bye bye.