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8 Reasons to buy a Food Dehydrator
My bedroom closet houses clothes, shoes, a cat-clawed housecoat, my knitting needle collection and a food dehydrator. Too wide for our narrow pantry, this unit spends most of the year in a corner of...
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Bay-Infused Currant Sour Cherry Jam with Almond
I was very young and very fussy. No. Not so much fussy as “discerning.” I ate a wide range of food with great pleasure. However, when I disliked something, I was inflexible. More than once I sat alone...
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Canadian Food Experience Project – Concord Grape Jam
Growing up, my mom’s homemade grape jam appeared on the table in recycled baby food jars with a paraffin wax seal. While the jam bubbled and the jars boiled, she melted bricks of wax on the stove top...
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Burma: Rivers of Flavour – An interview with Naomi Duguid
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Naomi Duguid about her award-winning book Burma: Rivers of Flavor (Random House ©2012). In April, the book won the IACP award for Culinary Travel, and just...
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Avocado Tomatillo Sauce
It has snowed so much lately my shovel and I are on a first name basis. It sees my boots coming and says, “Hello, Charmian.” I nod, pull my hat down over my ears and grab the chirpy shovel in a choke...
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Tackling Food Waste
This month’s Canadian Food Experience Project focuses on resolutions. I could have used my culinary bucket list as my contribution, but I don’t do proper resolutions and felt this was a bit of a...
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Chocolate Coconut Paleo Crack
These are for my sister. She doesn’t know it yet, but they’ll arrive at her door later today in a box with some pathetic attempt at a heart drawn on the lid. She’s in the middle of the Kitchen Reno...
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Spicy Grilled Broccolini
Developing recipes for unfamiliar culinary tools is a bit like having coffee with someone you met through an online dating site. You’ve memorized their profile, you’ve Googled them to see what others...
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Black Currant Jam
When I was very little, I thought my mother knew everything. Absolutely everything. If I had a question, she had an answer. If I had a problem, she had a solution. She cured my near-fatal bout of the...
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Black Bean, Corn & Barley Salad
So, Eric Idle came to dinner and was seated beside me. We were going to entertain the other guests with a ripping rendition of The Dead Parrot skit. Only I was so busy thinking up clever tweets I...
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Root Vegetable Chips
I’m on CTV News at Noon today helping Nancy Richards make homemade root vegetable chips. On the mess scale they’re more work than stovetop popcorn but less bother than pie. And that’s with making your...
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Whole Bowls with Smoky Corn, Black Bean and Cilantro Jalapeno Pesto
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Judge it by how long it takes to pry from your friends’ hands. Whole Bowls: Complete Gluten-Free and Vegetarian Meals to Power Your Day by Allison Day (Skyhorse...
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Nut & Seed Brittle
I feel this is cheating. Healthy nuts, good-for-you seeds, and a whack load of sugar. This nut and seed brittle recipe was vegetarian chef Nettie Cronish’s compromise with her kids. Nettie is all...
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Lemon, Fig and Lavender Marmalade with Sarah B Hood
Last year my garden burst with lavender. This spring, only a few leggy plants survived. Too little snow. Too much thawing. Too much freezing. Or maybe the plants sensed my neediness and fled. I need...
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Burnt Caramel Nut Brittle
I’ve decided to change the idiom from “watching paint dry” to “waiting for sugar to caramelize”. It doesn’t roll off the tongue, but it’s a fair description of the process. This recipe for Burnt...
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3-Ingredient Nutty Granola Bars
Image by Laura Miller 3-Ingredient Nutty Granola Bars The grocery situation changes almost constantly now. A couple of weeks ago, the local supermarket had no toilet paper and no flour but plenty of...
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Crispy Root Vegetable Chips
Crispy Root Vegetable Chips So far, I haven’t noticed a shortage of root vegetables. The produce section in the local grocery stores has plenty of potatoes, beets, turnips, parsnips, sweet potatoes...
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Apple Chips
Apple CHips Yesterday, I posted about root vegetable chips. Today, the chips are made of fruit. Spring is not the best time of year for apples. While the produce section boasts apples year round, by...
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Easy 5-Ingredient Black Bean Salad
5-Ingredient Black Bean Salad Who says easy needs to be boring? I’ve been making this 5-ingredient black bean salad for years. I’ve taken it to picnics, potlucks, and family reunions (back when we had...
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Black Bean and Roasted Red Pepper Soup
Black bean and Roasted Red Pepper SOup Yesterday, I looked at cooking dried legumes at home. I mentioned that beans could lose their colour if soaked too long. I should add simmering them too long...
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