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Local Menu Plan – Southern Ontario (Trying to Trust Spring)
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Local Menu Plan – Southern Ontario (Trying to Trust Spring)

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 29 de Abril- 5 de Mayo Spring?  Maybe it has arrived.  We feel it a little bit more each day.  In terms of planning our menu for the week  Cinco de Mayo should be an obvious meal choice (if it 

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Veg out and watch the vid – A year in the garden

Totally amazing video of One Year in the Garden. This video definitely conveys what we know is happening and can feel but are unable to actually see with our own eyes! Share: Tweet Email

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Planning to Eat Locally – Guest Post for Local Dish

This week I wrote a post for Foodlink , Waterloo Region, in their Local Dish . Foodlink as a really cool local non-profit organization that works to promote local food in the Waterloo Region. They wor…

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100 Mile Monday – Interview at Homegrown.org

Well, in lieu of posting a new 100 Mile recipe today I had a great conversation with Jennifer from HOMEGROWN.org .  You can check out the chat we had here  (it reads from the bottom-up because it is…

Beets. Gnocchi. Ever.
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Beets. Gnocchi. Ever.

I will start by saying that gnocchi is so so so awesome! Furthermore, beets are so so so awesome. So it follows that Beet Gnocchi is so so so so so so awesome! Well, that’s ridiculous, but what I mean…

Local Menu Plan
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Local Menu Plan

April 15-21 Here’s the upcoming week’s menu. Â Thematically I’ve decided that Monday is a good pasta day. Â I don’t intend to follow this as a rule, but more of a casual guideline. Â Monday is often w…

Cabbage and Apple, Rösti, and a Salad
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Cabbage and Apple, Rösti, and a Salad

At the beginning of the week I was planning on making the Formosan Fried Cabbage from More with Less but decided I wanted a little bit more “going on” with the recipe. My search for “cabbage and sausa…