Great Canadian Food Experience: My Cherished Canadian Recipe for East Coast Fish Chowder I’ve written about fish chowder before but as it really is my cherished Canadian recipe I’m revisiting it as this month’s contribution to the Great Canadian Food Experience Project. One of the hardest things about having to drastically change your diet is […]
Easy Preserving; Grind and Freeze Zucchini to Eat all Winter
I’ve never been very good a growing zucchini, until this year where I stopped fussing over it and totally neglected it. Seems zucchini likes neglect. The only issue now is that we keep accidentally letting these summer sqush grow to be as big as the baby. We had one that weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces. […]
A Birthday and our Favourite Book: First Tomato by Rosemary Wells
Rebecca and I would like to share a little of one of our favourite books with you. It’s her birthday and she’s 4 years old today so we are celebrating at the farm by picking tomatoes and reading our favourite books. A well loved copy of First Tomato, part of a charming trilogy of books […]
Roasted Chicken with Apples and Cider: Meet Southern Ontario Canadian Food Heroes Heather and Steve
Great Canadian Food Experience: Southern Ontario Canadian Food Heroes Heather and Steve I’d like to introduce you to Heather Coffey and Stephen Laing of Fiddlehead farms. Along with their farm manager Jess and a handful of interns and wwoofers they organically grow a CSA worth of vegetables in their market gardens, raise pigs with names like […]
garlic scapes and shrimp
Garlic scapes with shrimp is really more of an idea than a recipe. It’s important to cut the scapes off your garlic plants so they can focus on producing a nice bulb, and because they are delicious. We’re coming to end of the season’s 100s of garlic scapes and branched out from using them in much […]