The end of winter is a beautiful thing. Wait, no it’s actually not very beautiful. Spring is beautiful, but this end of winter seems to drag on a few too many weeks. While it’s dragging on there is no hope yet of new produce. There is no asparagus or rhubarb. The trees are still lacking […]
My wife and I have both loved gardening for a long time. As kids both of our families had huge gardens, and our parents preserved much of their own food. When we got married and moved into a small basement apartment in Atlanta one of the first things we did was ask our landlady upstairs […]
(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 […]
Alright, a few days ago I got a bit romantic about our love of preserving. Now, however, we’re in crunch mode so I’m feeling slightly less amorous about the whole thing. For one thing we have a huge bag of tomatoes on the floor, another full of peppers, and peaches are covering our hutch. Luckily eventually […]
“How do you guys find the time?” At least one friend has asked us that. Now that I think about it, we sometimes ask ourselves the question. We don’t really have a good answer. We often mumble something like “Well we make time for it.” But that doesn’t really seem like a good answer. So […]
“It’s never optional.” Cooking, that is, and so Michael Smith begins his latest book, Family Meals (available now locally and on Amazon and Amazon.ca). I completely agree with him. Feeding my family is one of my main responsibilities as a parent and the food that I give them should always be the best possible. How […]
Several months ago I was given a book recommendation by the farmer who runs the CSA that we joined this year, Fertile Ground Farm. Shortly after talking with her about Farmacology I put a hold on it at the library. Although Farmacology came out in 2013 it has remained popular at our local library so when I finally got […]
This pizza is my tribute to a great musician. At the same time it’s also my tribute to an awesome vegetable that I was happily just introduced to. One thing I always loved about The Band, of which Robbie Robertson was an integral—and Canadian—part, was the way they took traditional sounds, styles, and instruments and […]
Greens week has been a huge success and I owe it mostly to my garden! It has been pumping out the leafy veggies prolifically! However, that abundant production has not gone unnoticed in my local ecological community. Cabbage moths have happily found themselves a nice place to lay their eggs—the kale, which is technically a […]
On Sunday afternoon I went down to Port Stanley on Lake Erie with my several of Madame’s siblings. Before leaving I hastily threw together a salad with some of my garden Mesclun and kale then topped the salad with a few of the strawberries from last week and some fresh serviceberries from the street in […]