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.
A few months ago I almost cut my finger off. Not the whole finger, just the tip, which is still an important part of my finger in my opinion! Fortunately I didn’t cut it off but it was a decent wo…
Read this recipeIn case you were wondering…. There are a few ways to stay up-to-date with The Local Kitchener. Here they are: One . Just check the site on a regular basis. This is probably not too reliable, but at le…
Occasionally we worry about how we are perceived. Â More specifically, we worry about how our son is perceived at school, and indirectly how that makes us look. Â I should really phrase this in the fi…
The end of winter is a beautiful thing. Wait, no it’s actually not very beautiful. Spring is beautiful, but this end of winter seems to drag on a few too many weeks. While it’s dragging on there…
My wife and I have both loved gardening for a long time. As kids both of our families had huge gardens, and our parents preserved much of their own food. When we got married and moved into a small bas…
Every September we stockpile salsa . We can all of it with the goal of having enough jars for an average of 5-6 per month until we can make fresh salsa again. Thus we canned just over 50 jars. Fresh…
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around California. We returned a couple weeks ago from ten days visiting the state that is more populous than the country we live in. It has been hard to decide wh…
This meal plan is a bit out of our ordinary pattern and it’s mainly because we’re not at home. We’ve been at my parent’s house—aka my childhood home—for the last two weeks, and will be he…
Wow, has it really been two months since I posted??  Okay, so actually I’m not at all in shock about this because I was well aware of how long it had been. Soooooooo. Where was I? Remember that …
Where We Began is not Really Where We Began The classic (North) American meal: a delicious, mouth-watering plate with a big piece of meat, preferably cooked on the grill, a potato or hunk of bread or …
