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.
(Alternate Title:Â What to do with all the dandelions that you’ve been weeding! ) Before this year I had never really accepted dandelions as an edible plant. Â Okay, so I knew that they were edible bu…
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May 13-19 Â This week’s planning was different (which is why if you follow this blog you may have seen a mistake post this morning!) mainly because we got our produce on Thursday and Friday instead of…
Madame and I have always loved Eggplant Parmesan. Our first experience making it was with the recipe from The New Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen, which is a great vegetarian resource! The way I r…
A guest spot, awesome! I have always considered myself to be an adequate cook–not great, not awful. Observing my three now grown children, I am both surprised and pleased to discover that they have be…
I know that last week’s seedling update was not good. It was also somewhat dramatic. I’ll keep today’s update simple; as stated in the title, “All is Well.” And even though we had nothing to do with p…
This post looks at Bailey’s Local Foods , a local online farmer’s market serving the Waterloo Region (which includes Kitchener!). I had the chance to sit down with the founder, Nina, a few weeks ago a…
May 6-12 Spring is beginning to arrive at the market and that is good. It also is beginning to arrive in my backyard where I’ve been able to harvest small amounts of leaves from various young plant…
Chatelaine Magazine has a new weekly contest called “Cooking Club” in which they post a recipe and people make it and then share their pics of the finished product. I am very glad I participated this …
Before anything bad happened… Thursday started off normal. Well, it started off normal but a little bit windy. My Assistants and I rode (aka I rode and they sat in their chariot behind me) to the Earl…
My contribution this week for 100 Mile Monday is a fairly light meal—salad and rolls! But the salad is not such a light salad, as it has lentils, beets, cabbage, blue and cheddar cheese, and… bac…
