by Solara Goldwynn, Hatchet & Seed Wintertime on Southern Vancouver Island is the time of year when local food is valued the most. If you’ve lived here for a while, you know that you don’t actually need to put your garden to bed for the winter, but can grow food year-round in our climate. With a […]
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by Rosemary Scott, Deep Cove Market – This year, prune plums were definitely in abundance. Hopefully like me, you pitted and froze some for later use, be it for jam, crumbles or cakes. I haven’t made this recipe in years and my sister had a large surplus of these purple beauties and asked me if
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by Solara Goldwynn, Hatchet & Seed – Nothing says autumn like baked squash! This time of year at local farmers markets and farm stands, we’re seeing bright coloured varieties of pumpkins and squash everywhere. Where I work at the North Saanich Farm Market, many of our farmers sell a variety of squash, including some rare
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by Nathalie Chambers – We are so lucky to live in the rainshadow of the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges, a world-renowned marine and biological diversity hotspot. We are in the traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations, who lived on and stewarded these lands for 8,000 years since the beginning of time until
Eco-Cultural Food Growth: Saanich Peninsula Food Security Read More »
You founded EAT Magazine 18 years ago. Give us a glimpse of how you got started in this business and how EAT Magazine came together. I’ve always been a magazine junkie. I would buy every food magazine I could get my hands on, including obscure international ones. Working as a chef and having access to
Can We Talk: Sue Hodgson Talks – and Eats! – with Gary Hynes Read More »
by Jill Van Gyn – We tend to get overwhelmed with food trends. They come fast and furious and are out as fast as they came in. Staying ahead of the game is work: you need to do your research checking in on blogs and websites out of major hot spots such as L.A, New
Yesterday’s Lunch & Tomorrow’s Dinner: What’s In & What’s Out in Victoria’s Food Scene Read More »
by Rebekah Hunter – The new school year brings the return of the dreaded lunch box! You want to fuel your kids from the inside out to be the best learners they can be, and by incorporating their ideas – and even enlisting their cooking skills – you might find that lunches become less of
Common Cents: Filling the Lunch Kit Without Breaking Your Budget! Read More »
An amazing gift from my good friend Sandy Shams, owner of Alexander’s Coffee. Hoping your garden is still producing in early September! Tomatoes are abundant this time of year; whether they come from your own garden or from the market we all love them. Every once in a while though, you get a tasteless batch;
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by Rosamond Ricketts, Rozy’s Jams – Back in the day, canning the harvest bounty was a necessary survival mechanism. An enormous fruit and vegetable garden, combined with a housewife who preserved, could make the critical difference to a family during the long harsh winters. Learning preserving was deemed an essential part of a young girl’s
by Trysh Ashby-Rolls – After only three months in the marketplace, Outlander Kitchen – The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook, is a smash hit. Fans of Diana Gabaldon’s novels and the Starz television series will know how Claire Beauchamp Randall journeyed from post-war Britain back to 18th-century Scotland and France … and that each novel includes
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