It’s officially cold out side. It’s also raining and the roof is leaking. So if you need me I’ll be in the kitchen making curry and taking photographs of cauliflower. Join me in the kitchen. You will need a bunch of seasonal vegetables and a whole bowl of spice; 1 cauliflower 1 large sweet potato […]
Great Canadian Food Experience; Preserving Heirloom Tomato Sauce
Great Canadian Food Experience; Preserving Our Canadian Food Tradition by Canning Heirloom Tomato Sauce This time of year I’m still neck deep in tomatoes. We grow them all summer, then as we pick them I make notes, take photographs, and try to stay organized before ripping them open to start fermenting the seeds. By the time […]
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. […]
How to Tell when your Green Tomatoes are Ripe and Ready to Eat
One of the most common questions I get in August is “how can I tell when I should pick and eat these green tomatoes?”. Lime Salad, Green Grape, Green Zebra, they’re all green and all a little confusing when you’re used to waiting for your tomatoes to turn red (or blue) before enjoying. It’s actually […]
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 […]