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.
This is it, our first 100% local ice cream.� Sweetened with maple syrup and honey, it features local cream, milk, butter, and eggs (quite a few eggs it turns out).� The walnuts are farm-…
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Meal-planning is an important part of our week. It allows us to be more prepared and relaxed with regards to our nightly meals and reduces stress. It also makes eating locally much easier because we t…
After returning to town we didn’t have time to hit up all of our favorite sources for fresh local foods, but we did find Ontario peaches and plums at the grocery store (they seemed to be from the Ni…
Meal-planning is an important part of our week. �It allows us to be more prepared and reduces stress with regards to our nightly meals. �It also makes eating locally much easier because …
As I’ve already stated, I’m pretty much obsessed with pizza . Maybe my favorite thing about pizza is the freedom to put whatever you want on a piece of dough and still be able to call it pizza. The di…
Pizza is my favorite food. It’s my favorite food to make from scratch. It’s my favorite to go out for. Frozen pizza is even my favorite store-bought food (and one of the only ones I’m willing to eat)!…
�You could make zucchini bread.�� Those were Madame�s parting words the other day as she left for work.� I looked at the large zucchini sitting on the counter. I smi…
Same picture, just looking more closely. Gardening is a huge part of my life. Gardening is also a source of tension in my life. It brings me great joy yet often brings great sadness too. I suppose it …
We just returned from a week at my mom’s family’s cottage on Lake Michigan. I have always felt that it is the Greatest Lake, but that may be because I have spent so much time there over the years. Whe…
Ok, so I know I’m stretching things with my Wednesday variation s but anyways… here’s another song about plants. It’s called “If I Leave You Too Long You Might Rot.” I think the title pretty much sums…
