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 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 green…
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Well, the theme for winter cooking has been beets. And it’s a good theme since I think that beets are wonderful! But I know that I many people have a hard time eating beets and I think it’s good for m…
I referenced a few days ag o that I had made ciabatta with some of my pizza dough. I like to make my dough 1-3 days in advance to enhance the flavor*. Lately I’ve been using dough that is more or less…
…Our Garden! Last night I planted the first round of seeds for this upcoming growing season. I was accompanied and assisted by a new friend from Transition KW and briefly by my son (before he had to g…
So, before you think I cooked all this in one day you should know that the roasted veggies were leftovers. But they were still great, in fact, they were maybe even better because they weren’t quite so…
The inspiration for the frittata came from Fertile Ground CSA’s website. Theirs was simply a leek frittata , but for some reason we wanted to add Ontario mushrooms… so we did. We had to combine a few …
I came across the Kusherie recipe in the More With Less cookbook back in January. I tried it and my family loved it! It is a straight-forward recipe that brings together a number of wonderful flavours…
Why am I a Kitchener? Because I can’t call myself a cook and yet much of my favorite times in the day are spent in the kitchen. It is there that I can find some peace and time to think and also where …
I’ve been enjoying my hot fermented carrots for a couple weeks now and will soon be making another batch. Well, actually the next batch will be different, as I’m going to try different fla…
April 22-28 We have several new recipes to try this week and once again most of them come from the Food & Wine cookbooks. Because my Young Assistant has swim lessons on Monday nights at 6pm he and…
