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The Local Kitchener

Cooking, preserving, brewing, and eating real food from the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Seasonal recipes from a kitchen that cooks what it grows and preserves what it can.

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Flan

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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 wor…

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Local Coffee

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 f…

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Plan to Cook

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 plannin…

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First Week of January Meals

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 b…

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This new year…

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 bi…

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Back to School Meals

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 w…