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Category: In the Kitchen
Relishing the summer
You know I just had to get right on top of the canning once I got back to the city this week. I noted as part of my grocery restocking when we got back from Wabakimi that we were out of relish. I was about to add it to my shopping list when I thought,…
We be jammin’
Yesterday was the first of my two-day G20 holiday, and all week the weather report for Thursday has been up and down. One minute it was calling for rain, the next for sun. My plans vacillated between gardening (of which there is always work to be done) and making jam. I wasn’t going to bother…
Natural dyes for Easter eggs
Many years ago I tried dying Easter eggs with dyes made from natural foods. It was a little time consuming but a lot of fun seeing what colours I could get from ordinary food items. I suppose you could also use these dyes for things like cloth, yarn, paper, etc. Probably not your hair though….
Diamond in the rough: the humble potato
I don’t know about you but I adore potatoes. I love them fried, mashed, baked, perogied, gnoccied, boiled, scalloped, chipped… it’s virtually impossible to screw up a potato. There couldn’t be an easier food to cook in the whole world. That said, I’ve never been able to keep which ones are waxy and which ones…
Big weekend at the cottage
Chris and I took Friday off so that we could do up a big Family Day / Valentine’s Day weekend at the cottage. It’s the first time we’ve been able to get there this winter, and of course this time we had the added challenge of taking Luna on her first big weekend road trip….
Custom canning labels
I meant to post about these back in November, when my colleague at work, graphic designer Matt Webb designed them for me. I paid him in pickles. He used my own photography as the background and I had him make two sizes, one to fit the standard-sized jars and the other to fit the wide…
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
I’ve had this lovely squash sitting in my fruit bowl on my counter for at least a month (I love how long squashes keep!) and I finally got around to doing something with it this week. I wanted to share this recipe because it’s so ridiculously simple and luxurious. And it’s been ages since I…
Cookie day with Alice
Alice and I busted our butts baking today (say that five times really fast). We made my standard gingerbread cookie recipe, which is really more of a gingersnap recipe, but one that is fabulous because the only sweetener in it is the molasses, which is great because the icing adds lots of sweetness. We made…
Foraged from my front lawn
For months now I’ve been courting the idea of making quince jam or quince jelly from “the bush” on my front lawn. First, I have to explain “the bush”. As I think I’ve mentioned before, we’re living in the house that Chris’s great aunt once lived in, and along with her badly neglected flower beds,…