Recipe originally posted on October 1, 2011. It’s been six years since I’ve shared my Bodacious Beet and Cabbage Soup recipe on this blog. It was a chilly autumn day in…
Recipes
“Maman, I love you and you make the best ice cream ever!” said my daughter, as we sat outside enjoying our delicious home made strawberry ice cream. Seeing my three…
Cherry-apple fruit leather is easy to make. This recipe, if you can call it that, has two ingredients: cherries and unsweetened apple sauce. Apple sauce add sweetness and pectin to…
Today I preserved spinach from my garden. Last fall I planted Tyee spinach and it survived the winter. It was such a successful experiment that I plan on doing it…
Earlier this week our learning circle gathered to make felt lanterns for the winter solstice. It was an exciting and wet activity, next time I will remind everyone to bring an extra change…
A few years ago I ate my first Raincoast Crisp and it was love at first bite. Unfortunately my budget doesn’t allow for purchasing these delicious, albeit expensive, artisan crackers…
The most commonly seen zucchini is dark green, long and cylindrical. This was the zucchini of my childhood; the kind that my maman used to make moist chocolate zucchini cakes. Only recently…
The three most common ways of preserving basil are dehydrating, curing and freezing. It’s worth considering how you plan to use the basil before preserving it or you could experiment…
Homemade pizza is where it’s at around here. It’s the perfect vessel for summer garden vegetables, homemade tomato sauce and plenty of cheese. But delicious pizza toppings cannot stand alone, they need the…
A few days ago I was lamenting the fact that I had to thin the baby beets in my garden. Too attached to compost the baby beets I carefully washed…