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Trying to find seasonal and local ingredients for the plante'S and your health.
In case you are still on the look out for a CSA farm, here are few more links for you to look into:Amarosia in Shediac, N.B. Eagle Creek Farms near Calgary and Red Deer, ABACORN (Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network) list organic farms in Nova (read full article)
Can one have too many peaches? While I may claim to be more veggie than fruit the rest of the year, I definitely can survive on fruit alone during the summer months. What with the glut of berries, tomatoes, and stone fruits, who needs veggies? (Okay, (read full article)
I love eggplants. For as far as I can remember, I've always eaten these vegetable-fruits, they were part of my family's culinary landscape. Both my parents have their eggplant repertoire: stuffed and fried; sliced in a fan and roasted; pickled; in sa (read full article)
What can be easier, or more pleasant, than making a quick mixed salad with whatever you have at hand? The French call mixed salads une salade composée -isn't that sweet? As if the salad were a musical composition, all the flavours melding into visua (read full article)
Just in case you didn't feel up to making the corn chowder I just posted, here is a recipe for corn pancakes. It's a super quick and tasty recipe, and it would make a great stand-in for corn bread with some chili. Actually, if you're really hankering (read full article)
Aahh corn! It is, for me, the quintessential summer food. More so than any other fruit or vegetable that abound at this time of the year. Even... gasp... tomatoes -don't get me wrong: I love tomatoes; but I grow my own from seed so I basically (read full article)
If July is about the horn of plenty filling up, then August is all about the horn spilling over! All across Canada and the Northern Hemisphere, gardeners and farmers alike are being overwhelmed by the abundance of their crops... for the most part. So (read full article)
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?Originally uploaded by Domain BarnyardOh dear! After a few months of silence, the floodgates have been opened wide! First things first: Calgarians had their chance, and they blew it! The June referendum was a b (read full article)
The other day I mentioned vegetable marrow. At the time, I didn't have one hanging about to photograph... I finally got one in my CSA basket, but I was so excited (and hungry) that I proceeded to cut it up before it occurred to me that I should (read full article)
This summer is absolutely glorious! The hot, sunny days give way to good and proper rainy days, and the garden is just flourishing!The first pumpkin is beginning to colour.The tomatoes are cropping up everywhere! It looks like I'm going to have anoth (read full article)
I have a CD of Raj Patel's Seattle conference to give away. It is unfortunately not the entire book Stuffed and Starved on CD, but merely a 50 minute lecture. It is, however, a very enlightening and entertaining lecture on the importance of being con (read full article)
It's sooo hooot!I know, I know, it's nowhere near as hot and humid as it was last week, but I still leave work all sticky and quite grumpy from having spent the entire day fighting with clothes that insist on clinging to every inch of my body. As soo (read full article)
I've already shared quite a few pea recipes (fresh pea soup; rice with peas; risotto and pasta with peas implied; and so much more...), still I could not resist another pea inspiration! Peas are my ultimate seasonal treat, far beyond asparagus (and I (read full article)
It's been a while since I wrote about my musings on the CBC... I reiterate: I love the CBC! And they've got two new radio shows this summer that are particularly interesting. The Bottom Line is David Suzuki's new radio show on, what else?, environmen (read full article)
I was at the market yesterday, and guess what I found... PEAS!!!! Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know how much I love peas, and how I can wax lyrical about them. I love fresh peas.As soon as I see the first peas from Ca (read full article)
The East Coast is just barely getting over the first heat wave of the summer, that meteorologists are already announcing a second, albeit milder, less humid one. Last week's heat and humidity was brutal: I don't know about you, but I was subsisting o (read full article)
Well, it's a mystery no more: the squash that popped out of my compost is a miniature pumpkin. With a little luck not only will I have my fill of squash blossoms to eat, but I will also have my Hallowe'en display and pie filling for free!As you can s (read full article)
Squash blossoms are ephemeral beauties: like the morning glory, they open with the morning light and fade by sundown. By the following day, they are shrivelled up yellow wads, barely recognizable as what was once a pretty flower. Yet they are a prize (read full article)
It's the time for new garlic...What could possibly be so special about new garlic? Garlic is garlic... So you might think, but new garlic is like no other garlic you've ever tasted: it is sweet and mild, and its bite is nowhere near as bad as its bar (read full article)
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