So since the Ecoholic TV video started broadcasting there’s been some clamoring for a recipe for making salsa, along with step-by-step canning details. I pretty much approach every batch of salsa differently by including whatever ingredients I happen to feel like at the moment and I encourage you to experiment…but for those die-hard instruction followers,…
Me = guest star on Ecoholic TV!
This just in – fresh picked video on how to can your own salsa at home, starring yours truly…ME! NOW magazine doesn’t allow me to embed the video (grrrr!!!) so have a visit to the NOW Ecoholic TV cast page and watch! Enjoy!!
Eat this Heinz!
I was watching an episode of Jamie at Home the other day and was totally inspired to make my own ketchup as a way to use up a big bag of frozen cherry and yellow pear tomatoes I had from my garden. It’s getting to be the end of the season, for real, with real…
Fresh picked from the pumpkin patch
Our friend Cass says that someday when he buys a house, he wants to have a pumpkin patch. No amount of cajoling from Chris and I can convince him that you kinda need a field to have a pumpkin patch, that every reasonable gardener knows that you don’t just get “a” pumpkin from a patch….
City a-glow-glow
So the critics are having a hay-day as usual with this past weekend’s Nuit Blanche offerings, and I have to admit, I found it a little lacklustre, myself, with a few exceptions. First of all, there’s something magical about everyone being out exploring the city. There were people in every nook and cranny, every alleyway,…
Spreading the good green clean word
Friends of ours recently bought a house, and their parents threw them a send off party where everyone was invited to bring their favourite cleaning products to give the new home owner. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to spread the good green word, I got a bucket and filled it with a jug of…
Going straight to my hips
The sixth season of Rick Bayless’s cooking show Mexico, One Plate at a Time was airing on PBS this summer and one of the episodes featured several different kinds of ice cream. One of the recipes was for Mexican Chocolate Chile Ice Cream (Helado de Chocolate y Chile Pasilla) and I was smitten. It looked…
As the Cookie Crumbles…
Looking for a little afternoon distraction? Perhaps its time for a tea and a Peek Freans Lifestyle Selections Blueberry Brown Sugar cookie, and your weekly episode of As the Cookie Crumbles, the brainchild campaign of a friend of mine and his marketing team, created for Kraft Canada. As the Cookie Crumbles – Episode 1 –…
For the love of tomatillos
It’s a rainy day in the neighbourhood and I’ve been up to some serious cooking. I made what may be my final batch of salsa for the year, although there are still a large number of tomatoes out on the vine trying to ripen so I may have to put those guys to use in…
For your noggin’
I’ve managed to whip up a few little FO’s over the last few weeks which I’ve finally gifted so I can post about. One is Calorimetry (how on Earth are you supposed to pronounce that?) from Knitty for my friend Alice. This colourway was just right for her and her amazingly curly reddish hair, which…