Winter is over but spring is only barely here. In this in-between time, what local foods can we still focus on? Below are some of the types of meals we have been enjoying lately. To find local foods this time of year we head down to our Kitchener Farmer’s Market or use Bailey’s Local Foods […]
I’m currently reading The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon. Can you already guess where I’m going with this little post? Well, it was not intentional on my part that I began the book just before the gift-giving season began, but when you put a hold on a book you don’t know when […]
Custards are one of my favourite desserts. This time of year we have a very good supply of eggs from our chickens and so for Cinco de Mayo we decided to make Flan. It’s actually not too much work, and possibly less work than other custards because there is no careful heating part to the […]
We’ve been taking more walks lately. For us this is a new endeavor, and were not nightly walkers by any means yet. But I grew up in a family where the after dinner walk was the norm so it does feel familiar. I don’t remember complaining about these walks the way my own children do, […]
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 […]
Now that we’re back in school mode I’ve been meal-planning again. In the summer I pretty much stop doing this and just see what happens in a day (for better or for worse!). The meals listed here are what we ate, intended to eat, or hope to eat this coming week. It turns out that […]
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 […]
Last winter I entered a local homebrew competition put on by Short Finger Brewing. I decided I’d enter by brewing a style I’d never heard of, Wheat Wine, which I chose because I had quite a bit of wheat malt extract I wanted to use up and I figured I’d maybe win a prize since […]