I am always excited to receive corn on the cob in our veggie box, so this week I was ecstatic to find 4 corns waiting to be made into something delicious. My Cornbread Muffin recipe is pretty yummy, but with my oven currently out of action I needed to find a really simple recipe that … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: Sweetcorn Fritters
Our friends over at Stewardship Pemberton watch the seasons come and go as closely as we do. We are stoked to share their regular blog posts here, but you can also visit them at their new website, which is their virtual home now that the One Mile Lake Nature Centre is closed for the season. … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: I Can Because I Can Because I Can… (And You Can Too!)
I love Saturdays, Canada Day and Thanksgiving as it means I am definitely having pancakes for breakfast! (Okay, well not every Saturday as that would be a bit much!) And I definitely love making pancakes since I discovered this recipe for basic pancakes - so much better, lighter, more flavourful, less cardboardy (if there is … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: Blueberry Compote
With the collection of the next Ice Cap veggie box looming and a bowl full of ripe Champagne Peaches from Snowy Mountain Organic Farm still to use up (I have the fruit option with my veggies), I embarked on a mission to find a recipe that meant I wouldn't waste this wonderful fruit. Luckily I stumbled … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: Spiced Peach and Carrot Bread
We recently had some friends round for dinner and, being a dessert fiend and Bree Van De Kamp wannabe, I searched for the most impressive looking recipe I could find to finish the meal with! Having made several different variations of Semifreddo in the past, with it having always been well received, and apricots in this weeks … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: Apricot and Amaretti Semifreddo
I am a huge fan of broccoli and really look forward to it's arrival in our veggie box. So I set out to find a recipe that uses this wonderful Brassica, which is high in both vitamin C and dietary fibre. Having always wanted to try and make Broccoli and Stilton Soup (but not being very … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: Creamy Broccoli and White Bean Soup
If you want to know what to feed a farmer, visit Rootdown Organics' blog this week, where they've posted a great recipe for the stew that is sustaining them during this busy period on the farm. It's a freestyling kind of recipe. If you want more, visit them at http://rootdownfarm.net/ or stop by and say hello … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: Rootdown Organics’ MidSummer Vegetable Stew
Last year I picked up a book, "Well Preserved - Small Batch Preserving For The New Cook" by Mary Anne Dragan so that I could learn how best to preserve beets and other veggies from my Ice Cap Veggie Box, as well as give me more ideas for jams and chutneys. My first attempt at … Continue reading Recipe Of The Week: Sweet Spiced Pickled Beets
My snow pea harvest seems to be coming to an end. They've done their bit to add nitrogen to the soil, and provide weeks worth of snacks. I love that the French name for the pea is mangetout, as in "eat all." I didn't even get so far as to look up recipes to use snowpeas. They … Continue reading In the Garden: Snow Peas
So, Ms. Richardson has been asking me to provide her with the recipes of all the things I have been making with the contents of our Ice Cap Organics veggie box, so here is my first, personal, contribution... Due to all the rain, the Ice Cap fruit partners didn't have any fruit in week 3's … Continue reading Recipe of the Week: Zucchini, Feta and Basil Quiche
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