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.
Like most seasons, strawberry season happens once a year. (Thank you, , for pointing out the obvious). Because of that around our house we feel the need to really cram the strawberries in. We have …
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If you read this blog with some regularity you may have noticed that there was no meal plan posted last week.� Some weeks life just gets too busy to plan.� It�s not quite true tha…
Some years ago, when I had a bit more time on my hands… I wrote an album’s worth of songs about plants. I titled the album “Plants.” Hmm, very original, eh? I guess the point is that I like plants, es…
This took me a while. Sarah from Flour and Spice very graciously named me as one of her 11 Liebster blogs about two weeks ago and I kind of sat on it for a while. But now I will keep the Liebster love…
While we were visiting my assistants’ Granny and Boppa we found this spider lurking between the leaves of a lettuce plant in their huge garden. In the video my young assistant is more interested in fi…
For several years I was a vegetarian*. Because those years were very formative years for me as a cook I have continued to prepare mostly vegetarian meals since my return to occasionally eating meat. I…
�Just the smell of summer can make me fall in love.�� (Thank you Modest Mouse ).� Well, Summer is today!� And I�m happy to report that here in Southern Ontari…
Well, I realize this would sort of be the antithesis of Wordless Wednesday, but at least it still keeps it simple. Â Here is a short and mostly useless video about how good vegetables are when eaten f…
Sandra Spee is the Kitchener’s mom, his Young Assistants’ Oma, and a great cook! She has cooked real food for as long as the Kitchener can remember and always makes use of whatever is growing in the h…
The Falls: Niagara Falls was incredibly awe-inspiring and beautiful. We had so much fun seeing the falls and exploring the region while Madame was at a conference (and if you’re wondering about my ass…
