Well Preserved

This is two pictures of the same thing – roughly 10 liters of stock reduced A LOT: The inspiration came from Val (who has a blog named Kale for the Revolution – check it out) who posted a comment back in December; Joel, have you ever tried doing reduced stocks? I tried it this year [...]

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We’ve just finished our annual tradition of canning deer stock.  We shared a photo with the FaceBook group and there were a lot of questions about making, preserving and canning stock so I thought we’d share a ‘best of’ post today to help you find what you’re looking for as we’ve shared a lot about [...]

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After sharing that we don’t really follow recipes while making soup, I thought I’d share a recipe for one! Because of the general consensus of the community that soup is more of an idea than an exact recipe, we’ll share this recipe in the same spirit (it was, after all, made of the leftovers in [...]

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Have you ever tried to make a soup or stew and found yourself short of stock?  There’s a few alternatives – run out to buy some (if you’re local), make some or improvise. Here’s a few ideas that we use when we’re out and don’t have the traditional ingredients to make some: Use tomato sauce [...]

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We introduced Sosniki Organics to the blog way back in 2009.  Jessie Sosnicki continues to be a highlight experience when we visit the farmers market – she is always optimistic, smiling and has a massive passion for what she does – especially heirloom tomatoes. I really enjoy being able to find ingredients at the market that [...]

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There is nothing better, this time of year, than asparagus soup.  It`s the taste of mid-late Spring and only the freshest stalks will do – this soup just isn`t the same in the middle of winter or later summer.  You can eat it hot or cold and change it`s ingredients at will. It also stores [...]

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One of my favourite things about shopping at Farmer’s Markets (or our Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) Program) is finding ingredients I haven’t cooked with before and figuring out what to do with them. This weekend I bought a lovely bag of Sorrel (about a pound).  The leaves remind me of arugula and the taste is unique [...]

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I`m a fan of having simple recipes that you can kind-of follow in the winter.  Squash soup is a fantastic example of this – we kind of make it up as we go along. Our recent installment of our CSA program saw an influx of squash into our house. We started by chopping it and [...]

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We are entering the heart of the winter.  The days are short (though getting longer), it’s brutally cold outside and people are covered in many padded layers.  And there’s plenty of food that just doesn’t taste like it could in the middle of summer. That’s when we turn to our jars and something like this: [...]

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My Mother is from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  If you can ever make it out that way, you simply must. I was fortunate to spend parts of many (perhaps the better term would be `most`) of my Summer Vacations there as a child.  I have many memories and – me being me – many of [...]

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