“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 something like “Well we make time for it.” But that doesn’t really seem like a good answer. So […]
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 crock pots) are a great way to prepare a meal in advance and come home and eat right away. Most cookbooks […]
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 you live in a similar climate (we’re in Southern Ontario, which is a pretty classic upper-midwest climate) you should […]
“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 is one of my main responsibilities as a parent and the food that I give them should always be the best possible. How […]
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 about food, farms, and family, and how those things are all intertwined. My family has been meal planning […]
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 it at the library. Although Farmacology came out in 2013 it has remained popular at our local library so when I finally got […]
We’ve been using spelt as our flour of choice since noticing that Oak Manor makes a “light” spelt, which has been sifted to remove some of the large bran particles. This sifting makes it easier to use it as a replacement for white flour. Our family loves waffles, and for me as a sourdough […]
I can’t get over how delicious strawberries are and how much I’ve enjoyed this past month of eating them. I also get a bit sad thinking about how soon they won’t be available (locally-grown at least, which is what counts). Luckily as the first real fruit of summer they are followed by many more […]
This pizza is my tribute to a great musician. At the same time it’s also my tribute to an awesome vegetable that I was happily just introduced to. One thing I always loved about The Band, of which Robbie Robertson was an integral—and Canadian—part, was the way they took traditional sounds, styles, and instruments and […]
Greens week has been a huge success and I owe it mostly to my garden! It has been pumping out the leafy veggies prolifically! However, that abundant production has not gone unnoticed in my local ecological community. Cabbage moths have happily found themselves a nice place to lay their eggs—the kale, which is technically a […]