Pattypan (or UFO!) squash
Reading Time: < 1 minute The colour and shape of these pattypans are phenomenal. When I purchased them from the Kitchener Market, the vendor had […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The colour and shape of these pattypans are phenomenal. When I purchased them from the Kitchener Market, the vendor had […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute This time of the year, I dive into Concord grapes … but wait! There’s a variety called the Coronation grape […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Via Vine Routes magazine, here’s a cross-county check-up on some interesting and unique craft beers: Barrel Heart Brewing, DundasBicycle Craft […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tourage is the process, a French culinary technique (where else?), for making the delectable puff pastry, the super-flakey pastry that […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fromagerie coopérative St-Albert ships cheese curds as far away as Japan, Barbados and Abu Dhabi. It’s a small village business […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The versatile egg plays an important role in an incredibly wide range of cuisines from around the world. That includes […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes A traditional Genoese preparation, pesto is simply delicious. The word derives from the Italian for “pounding,” and as such is […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you have one of these cluttering up a kitchen drawer, it could be something of an antique, a tool […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s a blend of hot and cold, of smooth and sharp, of rich, creamy butteriness and acidity that is one […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pétillant naturel, or, cutely, “pét-nat,” is naturally sparkling wine, if translated. It’s a sort of au courant wine — and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Because it doesn’t use a bacterial culture or rennet (an enzyme), ricotta cheese is technically a “dairy product,” but it’s […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Drawing on a lot of research and reading – and using sustainable farming-pioneer Joel Salatin as his north star – […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is little else better than slathering good, fresh butter on good, fresh bread. It is its essentiality, its long, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Little-known haskap berries grow on a globe-shaped deciduous bush that can reach about two metres in height. The fruit the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Harissa [hah-REE-suh] I thought we’d take a look at harissa, a spice paste found widely in Middle East cookery. There […]