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.
Fall is here. Summer is over. But can we eat well once summer is gone? Yes, that is a resounding yes! And a great way to keep eating well once the harvest has ended is by preserving the harvest now. T…
Read this recipeCoffee is one food item that I really love and enjoy in spite of the fact that it is not, and never will be local. I recently received a bag of coffee sent by Parachute Coffee to review and I have to …
(This post has been updated a few times since 2014, including the past seceral summers with info about prices found at St. Jacob’s Market in Ontario). Our final batch of salsa that we canned for the y…
Alright, a few days ago I got a bit romantic about our love of preserving . Now, however, we’re in crunch mode so I’m feeling slightly less amorous about the whole thing. For one thing we have a …
“How do you guys find the time?” At least one friend has asked us that. Now that I think about it, we sometimes ask ourselves the question. We don’t really have a good answer. We often mumble somethin…
When it comes to cooking from scratch you can save time, money, and energy by planning ahead. However, you can go one step better than simply planning by actually cooking ahead. Slow cookers (or croc…
Meal-planning is an important part of our week. As locavores, it makes eating locally much easier because we take the time to figure out what seasonal foods are available and how we can use them. If y…
“It’s never optional.” Cooking, that is, and so Michael Smith begins his latest book, Family Meals (available now locally and on Amazon and Amazon.ca ). I completely agree with him. Feeding my family …
This post was originally written for Food Bloggers of Canada . Welcome to The Local Kitchener! If this is your first time here you should check out the book giveaway going on right now. It’s a book ab…
Several months ago I was given a book recommendation by the farmer who runs the CSA that we joined this year, Fertile Ground Farm . Shortly after talking with her about Farmacology  I put a hold on…
