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.
I made this on a whim with kohlrabi we got in our first installment of this year’s CSA. A trick of mine for making nice uniform julienned style slices for the carrots and kohlrabi is to cut them into …
Read this recipeLast winter I entered a local homebrew competition put on by Short Finger Brewing . I decided I’d enter by brewing a style I’d never heard of, Wheat Wine , which I chose because I had quite a bit…
First of all, let me say “Happy Thanksgiving” to my American family and friends! I hope the day is wonderful! It has been a long time since I posted, basically a year! In that year I have been working…
The next two weeks we will be cooking almost entirely from one cookbook. We received the cookbook from our good friend who works in publishing (and yes, it is very nice to have friends like that!).…
Ever since I began thinking more about the food I eat—and this includes reading books, watching films, following blogs, and lots of cooking and eating—I’ve been rather hung up on the idea of tra…
Chutneys were for a long time a bit of a mystery to me. That is until I was given some by a friend and realized to my delight that just like ketchup, it goes well on top of pretty much everything. I f…
While I’m not a fan of endlessly adding kitchen gadgets to our extremely small kitchen, there are the occasional ones that seem worth it. The spiralizer is one of those. After a friend lent us hers to…
Recently I found out there was a new coffee roaster in town and I got pretty excited. Not because we didn’t have locally roasted coffee here in Kitchener-Waterloo, we do. Rather it was because I knew …
“Whatever highly honorable motives they may have—to save money or to enjoy themselves, for example—the greatest motivation for homebrewers is the opportunity to experiment and to produce beer in a…
¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!   On this May 5th I find myself reminiscing a bit… I spent almost three years of my life living in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. While living there my absolute favorite food was pu…
