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There’s something about home-made jam. When we decided to go strawberry picking this year, I already had one thing in mind for the strawberries: jam. But how do you make jam. I had no idea. So… Internet to the rescue!
Bernardin, friend to Canadian home canners everywhere, [...]
My next post is up over at Foodtv.ca. This time I wrote about going strawberry picking.
I am now coming to you from a brand-new desktop/gaming rig… Which also means that all of my photos are trapped on my old hard drive (as well as my photo editing software!) so I can’t post any pictures [...]
Pop quiz, hot shot. You’ve got eight liters of freshly-picked strawberries and a lazy Sunday afternoon. What do you do?
Why, make salmon, of course!
…whut?
No, really! This month’s Foodtv.ca cooking club is making Smoked Salmon with Strawberry Salsa. I knew that we were going strawberry picking, so I decided
this would be a perfect dish to use [...]
Well, we went to see Ratatouille today, and I loved it. The story was a bit predictable in a lot of ways, but I was especially pleased with the parts that were not predictable.
I have a few spoilers, so I’ll hide those behind the jump…
It’s amazing what a simple glance through the paper at lunchtime can teach you.
At lunch today, I happened to see an article in the Winnipeg Free Press about 100 Mile Manitoba, a group of 100+ people who are pledging to follow the 100 mile diet for three months starting in September. I jotted down [...]
My first guest blogger post is up on Foodtv.ca’s Food for Thought blog! Whee! We did a trip to the Red River Ex, and I decided to write about the food we found there. (I’ve encountered a lot of people who have never had “fair” food. This disturbs me! Everyone should be exposed to corn [...]
The incredible summer heat is starting to settle onto Winnipeg, so I’ve been looking for some quick, no-cook recipes that won’t make the house hotter than it already is. (That’s the downside of having a boiler for a furnace: central air is out of the question.)
I found this great recipe from Real Simple, and [...]
