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August 11, 2014

Locavore Meal Plan – Mid August

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 […]

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August 6, 2014

Michael Smith’s Family Meals Review and Barley Kale Tabbouleh Recipe

“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 […]

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July 28, 2014

Locavore Meal Plan for Mid-Summer

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 […]

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July 24, 2014

5 Plant-Based Changes in My Life and a Book Giveaway

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 […]

100% Spelt Waffles
July 14, 2014

100% Spelt Overnight Waffles

  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 […]

End of Strawberry Season
July 11, 2014

The Bittersweet End of Strawberry Season: Eating, Freezing, Jamming

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 […]

Kohlrabi Robertson: A Kohlrabi and Bok Choy Pizza
July 10, 2014

Kohlrabi Robertson: A Kohlrabi and Bok Choy Pizza

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 […]

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July 4, 2014

Sharing the harvest? Kale and Cabbage Moths

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 […]

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July 2, 2014

Creamy Tangy Dill Dressing

On Sunday afternoon I went down to Port Stanley on Lake Erie with my several of Madame’s siblings.  Before leaving I hastily threw together a salad with some of my garden Mesclun and kale then topped the salad with a few of the strawberries from last week and some fresh serviceberries from the street in […]

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June 30, 2014

Week of Greens

Our garden has been pumping out the greens for the last several weeks.  Our CSA also started a couple weeks ago, which we were very excited about since this is our first time participating.  The main thing from the CSA so far is also greens.  Yes, there have been a few radishes, kohlrabi, herbs, and […]

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I'm Jon, and with my family's help I share all about our locavore lifestyle!  You'll find recipes and meal plans, preserving and fermenting ideas, gardening tips, and homebrewing goodness!  All those things make me a "Kitchener" - are you a Kitchener too?  Read more...

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kitchen - er; noun; 1. A person who spends many parts of the day in the kitchen 2. A person who cannot quite be considered a cook but who nonetheless loves to cook and finds the kitchen the happiest place in the house. 3. A city in Ontario, Canada (and coincidentally where Kitchen’r Jon resides).

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