Beautiful morning to sit in the gentle breeze and birdsong of the garden, wearing gloves and plucking nettle leaves from their stems… and hardly ever saying any bad words (because…
Strolling about the garden during this break from being 700 below and what do I find but a few kale stragglers, flash frozen, now thawing and staring at me…
“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light…
The buds of nasturtium flowers… needing only to be cleaned and pickled and introduce to slivers of onion and slices of smoked salmon….
So there we are in Leamington, tomato capital of Canada, where the fruit is so bountiful and the trucks so full of the bountiful fruit that every now and then…
Calendula. Borage. Lavendar. And… *Kamouraska rose hips. **There’s a story to follow.
Some mornings I have goat yoghurt with dried grapeskins and flax and chia powder; pumpkin seed butter on eziekiel bread and locally made apple cider and a bowl of not…
My mother made wonderful teas. Tisanes, I suppose, technically. Fall was harvest season for the ingredients. Calendula from the garden. Rose hips from the wild bushes near the beach. Linden…
My Nettle Soup: Sautee onions until well browned — quantity depends on how much soup you’re making and how much you like onions Add nettles (leaves only) (I give the…
Or drink. Not at this time of year. Not if you have a garden with weeds. Especilally the Queen of weeds, Madame Dent-de-Lyon. Also known as Pissenlit. But the less…
One of my pleasures is to eat as locally and seasonally as possible. It actually thrills me to be able to do this rather than just buy whatever I fancy.…
The other day at the market it was all about the scapes. I didn’t buy any because I have a whole garden full of them presently. But that doesn’t preclude…
Newsflash: pesto can be made with almost anything green!! What’s that… everyone else already knew?? Ah well. Imagine my unbridled cave-living joy on finding out… This year’s divine ‘anythings’ have…
1. Get some peaches. 2. Follow this recipe. 3. Dig in. Easy as pie. Only it’s, well, you know… I omitted the ginger because one of us in this house…
As in tea. And garnishes for salad. And bee food.
EAT THEM WITH THE BIGGEST SPOON YOU CAN FIND. ♥
The whole reason I got a dehydrator was to do apricots. The season just isn’t long enough to eat as many as I’d like in their off-the-tree form. Though I…
Same recipe as basil pesto. Just substitute the most regal of weeds. 2 cups dandelion leaves, chopped 4 or 5 cloves garlic, chopped Mince the lot in a food processor…
Peanut butter cookie(s). This handsome divil was made by A Better Bite and purchased at the oh-so-wondrous Peterborough Farmers’ Market. [To the sage tea, add a dash of stevia or a…
1. Pretend to be French and eat them naked with a smear of butter or [if you’d rather be Canadian] find some of those giant ones and bite into them…
I was once told that “rhubarb” is what extras in a crowd scene on a movie set are asked to repeat. It seems the word has all the right sounds,…
Avocado from sunny MEH-hee-ko; the first radishes of the season, courtesy Fisher Farms in Janetville (JA-net-vill) via North Oshawa Farmers’ Market, and greens from my own rained-upon garden (sorrel, arugula,…
Porridge for everyone! **Homemade dried cherries and cat optional.
The point is we’re down to the last of last year’s. We’ve being getting ours all winter from the brilliant potato guy at Peterborough Farmers’ Market (the one whose delightful…
With chopped egg, dulse flakes, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice and a pffft of cayenne. This became a pretty divine lunch. Note: Am SO thrilled that after coddling my few…
Recently read a post by Darcie Friesen Hossack wherein she refers to Hobbit Day, an annual celebration invented by her and her chefhusband, during which they not only watch a series of hobbity movies but…
So you have a yard full of dandelions? Consider yourself lucky. Pick them. Pick some cucumbers while you’re at it. Wash and dry the lot. (Save the cukes for a dinner…
I’ve long wanted a food dehydrator to make the most of fresh produce. But secretly I wondered how well it would work or how practical it would be. Well, I…
Chop purslane. Grate raw beet and zucchini. Add garlic. Sprinkle with sea salt. Toss with olive oil lemon juice. Have an onion sandwich on the side if you like. Eat…
You can’t really tell, but this is a GIANT bowl of GIANT basil. Why the leaves got so enormous, I haven’t a clue. I don’t fertilize though I do dig…
With lemon thyme. Sweetened with stevia.
Take one large plate And one slice flax bread (see recipe below) Spread goat cheese (garlic flavour) over bread and don’t be stingy Dot with sun-dried tomatoes And olive oil And…
Once a year, just before the fruit season begins at home [and despite the guilt I feel coming from Niagara] we treat ourselves to bunches of Chilean grapes in memory…
See these organic micro greens…? Used to be called radishes growing. Tastes the same.
Just when we thought there was not much. Devillish eggs Smoked Hungarian sausage (csabai) Homemade pickled string beans Prosciutto Cheese One avocado (drizzled with oil and lemon juice, and sprinkled…
And you do want to eat them as they’re wild and free and abundant and full of nutrition. (Note: avoid the road-side ones and have a look around your backyard instead…)…
At eleven o’clock I decide to walk to the grocery store and buy sardines. Because I can and because I’m suddenly overcome with a yen for a sardine salad and we’ve been…
Flax Bread…! (fast and simple to make) Eaten this morning with a fried egg, shaved parmesan, dandelion buds, fresh oregano, garlic chives and tarragon. After the picture was taken I…
Yessirree, Bob, it’s that time of year again, when I can step right outside my own back door and wrestle lunch to the ground, i.e. cut some dandelions and other…
Every year it’s a race to snip a handful of sorrel shoots before the local rabbit gets wind of them. That and shredded carrot, chopped garlic, dram of olive oil, splash of…
What… garlic for breakfast?? Yes. Oh yes. Finally made it up to the egg monger on a foggy morning and stocked up with two dozen. The chickens were feeling quite…
A rumour has been flying around that we’re out of potatoes and apples and may therefore have to make a run up to Peterborough where the best of such things…
—Gather round, kids. Here’s something from the olden days, before the invention of chicken wings, when everything was uphill and five miles away. Before the invention of kilometres even, and…
I use gluten-free flour for this, and any fruit will do. I’ve used cherries (pitted and halved), apricots halved, pears (peeled) and apples (also peeled), as well as raspberries. All…
I don’t want to have buy eggs this week, so despite feeling lazy this morning and leaning towards mindlessly scrambling a couple, I decide to root about in the fridge…
I don’t use margarine. (Although I recently came across a recipe in Mairlyn Smith’s book for chewy chocolate chip cookies using margarine that both intrigues me and has me wondering…
Last night we had a bit of leftover the-best-steak-ever-BBQ’d from the night before so we sliced it and tossed it with spinach (from a local hydroponic grower—available at Sobey’s), shallots…
Here is how things happen. The other day there’s a bit of salt on the range hood. I wipe it off, open the cupboard door above it, wipe inside where there’s…
Eat sardines. With homemade croutons and sliced shallots. Good oil. Chopped kale if you’ve got it. Add a sprinkle of dulse. Cayenne. (This version also includes sliced avocado, spinach and hard boiled…
Purchased from a hydroponic/greenhouse grower at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market who also does white radish, black radish, tender leeks, multi-coloured baby carrots, greens, and a few things I’m forgetting. And…
This olive oil was a gift (so much better than perfume). It looks like wine and comes with a cork. Thank you, dear gift giver. Am dabbing a little behind…
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