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May 1, 2022

Local Meals in Non-Local Season

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 […]

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December 21, 2021

Homemade Christmas

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 […]

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May 5, 2021

Flan

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 […]

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April 30, 2021

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 feel familiar. I don’t remember complaining about these walks the way my own children do, […]

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March 16, 2020

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 planning in the past year(s) I decided to make an accountability partner of sorts by using chalkboard […]

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January 7, 2019

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 be a somewhat busy week feels like a good beginning! And we’re going to take a […]

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December 16, 2018

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 bit on how the year has gone and what I could improve on the next time […]

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September 17, 2018

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 what we ate, intended to eat, or hope to eat this coming week.  It turns out that […]

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July 3, 2017

Kohlrabi Sesame Slaw

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 […]

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March 19, 2017

Scaling Up – Brewing at Real Brewery

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 […]

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I'm Jon, and with my family's help I share all about our locavore lifestyle!  You'll find recipes and meal plans, preserving and fermenting ideas, gardening tips, and homebrewing goodness!  All those things make me a "Kitchener" - are you a Kitchener too?  Read more...

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Are you a Kitchener?

kitchen - er; noun; 1. A person who spends many parts of the day in the kitchen 2. A person who cannot quite be considered a cook but who nonetheless loves to cook and finds the kitchen the happiest place in the house. 3. A city in Ontario, Canada (and coincidentally where Kitchen’r Jon resides).

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