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!
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;
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
Grey Matters: Take a Wee Bite Outta This
by Solara Goldwynn, Hatchet & Seed – Summer on the Islands is an amazing and abundant time for local food. As I write this, a staple summer flavour is beginning to ripen: the contentious blackberry. I know there are those of you out there who underappreciate this incredibly successful plant. For myself, most of the
Island Dish: Lavender Infused Blackberry Galette
