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Local Menu Plan
April 8, 2013

Local Menu Plan

 April 8-14 There are a couple items on this menu that were from last week that we didn’t get to so we’re having them this week.  Tuesday should be fun since that is dinner and a movie at the YMCA Early Years Centre (EYC) of Waterloo.  The event is a fundraiser for their summer programs. […]

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April 5, 2013

Chicken-Noodle Soup, Biscuits, and Salad

Last month after our big chicken meal (in which we cooked a whole chicken and actually ate very little of it) the chicken was broken down into its respective parts and has since made its way into several more meals.  (Following that original chicken dinner the bony parts spent the night in the slow-cooker with […]

Local Menu Plan
April 3, 2013

Local Menu Plan

We were out of town on Monday and Tuesday and I completely forgot that I was going to try to post my weekly menu… on a weekly basis!  Anyways, we didn’t forget to make a menu plan for this week, I just didn’t share it. Every week we tend to focus on one cookbook, this […]

Winter Pasta
April 2, 2013

Winter Pasta

In the winter I tend to have a hard time coming up with pasta ideas that are meatless.  I find that when I make pasta sauce using only canned vegetables or winter vegetables I really crave meat.  However, as a family we limit our meat-based meals to an average of one per week.  Well, thanks […]

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April 1, 2013

Easter Foods

We celebrated our real Easter meal with family Saturday evening and it was a big production featuring Mediterranean foods.  It was a feast – and much of the afternoon was spent in the kitchen and around the grill.  It featured hummus, Tzatziki, walnut dip, tabouleh, Greek salad, chickpea-cucumber salad, whole wheat pita bread, feta, grapes, […]

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March 28, 2013

Cabbage Paneer, Radish Parathas, Daal, Cucumbers and Yogurt

I always feel a bit embarrassed referring to a meal as “Indian Night” because I know I am unqualified to cook it.  I brought over a few of my parathas to my neighbors to try and felt like I needed to put air quotes around “Indian” when I told them that’s what we were having.  […]

A Halfway Home for Seedlings… Cold Frame Hoop House!
March 26, 2013

A Halfway Home for Seedlings… Cold Frame Hoop House!

I spent Sunday afternoon building a “cold frame hoop house.”  The weather was mild (around freezing) and the work was mostly easy.  I’m happy with the results and hopefully my seedlings will be too when they head outside in a few weeks.  I’m hoping that the structure will help warm the soil upon which it […]

[Local] Menu Plan Monday
March 25, 2013

[Local] Menu Plan Monday

My wife and I have been menu planning ever since we had our first child which was just over three years ago!  We started keeping track of the plans last summer.  This winter after our move North I had time to make the plans a bit more detailed which is what prompted me to start […]

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March 22, 2013

The Most Local Food (Update)

I planted my seeds on March 13.  By the weekend some of the lettuce had sprouted and now pretty much everything has sprouted.  I’m just waiting on the peppers.

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March 20, 2013

Fusion – Greek Tacos!

This is my first attempt at fusion.  It mostly happened because I felt like I wanted to have tacos with some of the leftover chicken but also wanted a cucumber salad for a side (Ontario has great greenhouse cukes through the winter).  Thus the cucumber became Tzatziki and the black beans became Black Bean Hummus. […]

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I'm Jon, and with my family's help I share all about our locavore lifestyle!  You'll find recipes and meal plans, preserving and fermenting ideas, gardening tips, and homebrewing goodness!  All those things make me a "Kitchener" - are you a Kitchener too?  Read more...

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kitchen - er; noun; 1. A person who spends many parts of the day in the kitchen 2. A person who cannot quite be considered a cook but who nonetheless loves to cook and finds the kitchen the happiest place in the house. 3. A city in Ontario, Canada (and coincidentally where Kitchen’r Jon resides).

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