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.
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 us…
Read this recipeI 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, …
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 Ro…
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 ecolo…
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 t…
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 th…
My goal these days is to eat as much salad as possible. This is in part because our backyard garden is bursting with lettuce, kale, spinach, and more, but also because we joined a CSA and they have lo…
Summer is so close. Â And with all those wonderful warm breezes blowing in the windows of your home it’s a great time to get a sourdough culture started. Â Hopefully it will become inhabited by a few …
I’ve never been a big fan of substitutes. Ironically a couple weeks ago I was a substitute. Well, maybe not ironically, since the position I held for two days at a local school wasn’t a ton of fun, an…
I spent much of this past Lent reading. Madame and I also enjoyed The Hunger Games series as audiobooks, which is definitely one of the best readings I’ve ever heard. Strangely the hunting aspect of T…
