Most of the time we eat vegetarian.
We had some plans…. And now we have new plans! Speaking of plans, you might recall that I used to always share my meal plans on this blog. Well, after falling on to some bad habits with meal planning in the past year(s) I decided to make an accountability partner of sorts by using chalkboard […]
I’m going to keep it pretty simple here and just share what the meal plan is for the week (see the picture below). Things can change of course, but starting off with a meal plan for what will likely be a somewhat busy week feels like a good beginning! And we’re going to take a […]
As the new year approaches I’ve been giving some thought to things I might like to do better. I’ve never been one for setting any serious goals for the new year, but I do like at least reflecting a bit on how the year has gone and what I could improve on the next time […]
I made this on a whim with kohlrabi we got in our first installment of this year’s CSA. A trick of mine for making nice uniform julienned style slices for the carrots and kohlrabi is to cut them into 2 inch pieces and then stack them in the top of the food processor with the […]
Chutneys were for a long time a bit of a mystery to me. That is until I was given some by a friend and realized to my delight that just like ketchup, it goes well on top of pretty much everything. I feel like in some ways a chutney is a hybrid between ketchup and jam—it […]
While I’m not a fan of endlessly adding kitchen gadgets to our extremely small kitchen, there are the occasional ones that seem worth it. The spiralizer is one of those. After a friend lent us hers to help us dispatch with a few too many zucchinis we were hooked. I picked one up at Vincenzo’s […]
“Whatever highly honorable motives they may have—to save money or to enjoy themselves, for example—the greatest motivation for homebrewers is the opportunity to experiment and to produce beer in all the glorious varieties in which it manifests itself.” -Michael Jackson (this MJ, not the other) in the preface to The Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian […]
Every September we stockpile salsa. We can all of it with the goal of having enough jars for an average of 5-6 per month until we can make fresh salsa again. Thus we canned just over 50 jars. Fresh salsa is always the preferred option, assuming it’s made with delicious local ingredients. Based on that […]
Fall is here. Summer is over. But can we eat well once summer is gone? Yes, that is a resounding yes! And a great way to keep eating well once the harvest has ended is by preserving the harvest now. The last sweet corn of the season will soon be harvested, but it can be […]
(This post has been updated a few times since 2014, including the past seceral summers with info about prices found at St. Jacob’s Market in Ontario). Our final batch of salsa that we canned for the year, Chunky Peach Salsa, was definitely our best. And maybe that is because after canning 3 other batches we learned a […]