The combination of sandy soil and full sun means that we are able to grow really nice root vegetables in our front yard here in Toronto. When we’re not growing for seed, we just grow all the different types and colours mixed up so what you pick is a surprise; A striped beet or a […]
Make Your Own Organic Cranberry Sauce {Enough for both Canadian Thanksgiving and Christmas}
I had a lovely evening out last week with my friend Shana. We went out on the town to a canning class put on by Bernardin in a local church kitchen. Although we’re both becoming rather seasoned canners it’s nice: 1. To have a nice community event to go to. 2. We kind of like hanging […]
Wordless Wednesday: Zucchini Chocolate Cupcakes
I cannot believe how delicious these Zucchini chocolate cupcakes are. Rebecca and I made this loaf recipe but as cupcakes baked for 25 minutes. Absolutely mind blowing with a cup of coffee for breakfast this morning.
Canning Tomatoes for the First Time: Some Lessons Learned
Although we’ve now been canning, mostly successfully, for a few years, this year we’ve been taking on bigger projects. First those pesky peaches and now 3 bushels of blasted tomatoes. We shot this great time lapse video of our twelve hour day that certainly demonstrates the busy-ness but there’s much it is not showing. Here […]
Twelve Hours of Tomatoes in Two Minutes
This video is meant to be part of a much larger post about our adventures in canning tomatoes but that will just have to come later in the week as Ryan and I are just too excited to share this. Here is a time lapse that Ryan and […]