“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 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 […]
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 […]
Flipping through my mom’s copy of The New Moosewood Cookbook several years ago I was instantly drawn to the spanakopita recipe. It was the copious amounts of feta cheese that drew me in. I made the dish with some of my parents’ garden-fresh spinach and was amazed at how the dish just “ate” the spinach. […]
May 13-19 This week’s planning was different (which is why if you follow this blog you may have seen a mistake post this morning!) mainly because we got our produce on Thursday and Friday instead of at the Saturday morning Kitchener Market. Thursday we picked up our “bag” (it was a bin) from Grand River […]
The inspiration for the frittata came from Fertile Ground CSA’s website. Theirs was simply a leek frittata, but for some reason we wanted to add Ontario mushrooms… so we did. We had to combine a few recipes so we based ours on Fertile Ground’s and on Foodland Ontario’s. The results were quite good, and although […]