There are more than 300 recipes on Wellpreserved; we’re thrilled to share our new ingredient recipe which will help you find any of them sorted by ingredient.

We previewed this function to our FaceBook followers last week and asked for their feedback and we consistently heard that there was too much scrolling and people wanted a preview of each post so they could skim for what they wanted to find.  We’ve updated every single recipe post to do just that and we hope you’ll find it useful!

You can find the index here (note that you can also find it in its permanent home in the menu under FIND STUFF – INGREDIENT INDEX in the menu above).

This post is two years in the making.

You would laugh (or cry) to have witnessed the conversations that went into making our new index and menu system.  The conversations were endless and without definitive answers:

• Should a preserving recipe live with a ‘cooking’ recipe?
• Do we list things be ingredient or cooking method?
• Is a cocktail recipe a recipe, a cocktail or just part of something bigger? Read more

We’ve made it through the new index – today is the final day.  We’ll be returning to normal posts and working on some features in the background to surprise you with in short order.

Today’s section is the smallest – it’s about cooking techniques.  There will be more to come on this but for now there’s some fun content (including how to cook a whole roast over a campfire):

• Techniques

• BBQ and Open Fire Cooking
• General Cooking
• Sous Vide
• Tips and Tricks Read more

We’re on the second-last day of our tour and almost back to regular posts (although we’ll still be making a lot of enhancements as we settle in).

Today’s post is all about ingredients.  These posts are about the bare essences of real food.  We discuss cheese, hot peppers and other food we cook with.  If we fall in love with a new type of vinegar, you’re sure to find it here.  You’ll also find awesome tips like how to store asparagus, a lexicon and review of a tonne of different hot peppers, how to break down a chicken, the economics of buying grassfed beef and more.  This is all about the ingredients that go into our food. Read more

We continue the tour of the new hierarchy of WellPreserved today with a tour of our articles on drinking – both alcohol and non-alcohol.  Think of this as our bar – pull up a stool and pour yourself a glass of your choosing.

We have:

• Drinking (alcohol and non-alcohol)

• Beer and Craft Beer
• Beverages (Non-Alcoholic) – these are recipes
• Cocktails – also recipes
• Hard Liqour
• Wine (including a series on how to taste it) Read more

From the moment we launched WellPreserved we wanted this project to bring attention to people, organizations and things that made a difference.  We don’t use the word ‘love’ in mild context for this section – these are projects that we feel deserve attention and support and we hope you’ll enjoy reading about them.

The tour is nearing it’s end – and we’re approaching the reveal of our new approach to navigation which we hope you’ll love.  In the meantime, let us know what you think! Read more

We’re continuing our tour of our new home today – this time we’re sharing the 200+ editorial pieces we’ve run over the last 3 years. These include thoughts on slow food, sustainability, hunting, travel, event reviews and more.

This also includes our “Special Series” section of articles. These are unique in our navigation as they are the only articles that will always appear in two different categories at the same time. These articles were published as sets (for example my diary of moose hunting from 2009 is one of them) and were meant to be read in order at the time. But they also fit into out other categories (for example, the moose diaries are also part of the section on moose hunting). We recently shared a series on buying, cooking, eating and making stock with lobster. If you wanted to read the series from start to finish, you’ll find it below. But if you’re only looking for a lobster recipe, you’ll find just 2 of the 6 articles in that series in our recipe database as the others relate to buying and eating lobster. Read more

We’re continuing our tour of the new WellPreserved this week.  So far we’ve covered our newly indexed recipe page as well as our Preserving Recipe index.  Those two sections contain more than 300 recipes and represent about 15-20% of the content to be found at WellPreserved.  Let’s continue to explore, shall we?

Today we’ll explore our preserving knowledgebase – there are no recipes here but you’ll find everything else here.  Tips, tricks, advice, safety columns and background information on all sorts of things related to preserving.  There are also articles about seasonal preserving, storage and tools we use for preserving. Read more

We started the tour of our new website yesterday with a guided walk-through of our 130+ preserving recipes.  We’re going to move on from that ‘room/ and into another large chamber of WellPreserved – our other recipes.

This section had weeks of debate; we were torn between including preserving recipes with regular cooking or separating them.  We decided to keep them separate but you’ll see how we’ll give you the best of both worlds in coming days!

There are more than 160 recipes in this section (this kind of feels like launching two different cookbooks in two days).  We hope you’ll check them out and let us know what you think.  We’ll show you how you’ll find all this stuff soon but, for now, check it out here: Read more