Welcome to our kitchen that truly is the heart of our home! One of life's greatest pleasures is enjoying good food with family and friends. Here you will find recipes, tips for frugal cooking, how-tos for food preservation especially canning and anything else food related. Tea is brewing and warm cookies are fresh from the oven. Please sit a spell and enjoy your stay.
I am a wife, mother and grandma who enjoys the many aspects of homemaking. A variety of interests and hobbies combined with travel keep me active. They reflect the importance of family, friends, home and good food.
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using. --Bobby Flay
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[March 19, 2020] - Effective Mar 17, this blog will no longer accept advertising. The reason is very simple. If I like a product, I will promote it without compensation. If I don't like a product, I will have no problem saying so.
[March 17, 2020] - A return to blogging! Stay tuned for new tips, resources and all things food related.
[February 1, 2016] - An interesting report on why you should always choose organic tea verses non-organic: Toxic Tea (pdf format)
Sticky Post - Warning: 4ever Recap reusable canning lids. The reports are growing daily of these lids losing their seal during storage. Some have lost their entire season's worth of canning to these seal failures! [Update: 4ever Recap appears to be out of business.]
The grocery stores are filled with an abundance of fresh produce year round. A good portion of that produce is not locally grown but rather shipped in from other locations like Yuma, Arizona. The reason being that in northern areas with short growing seasons and cold winters it is virtually impossible to grow certain fruits and vegetables. Large commercial greenhouse operations have been quite popular in Southern Ontario with their numbers growing each year but even those are not enough to meet the demands of consumers. The average food travels 1,500 miles from farmer to your table spanning five or more days in transit. Here is a good video showing how lettuce gets to the grocery store during those cold winter months.
Bon Appétit!
Garden Gnome
1 food lovers commented:
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Since i am a transplanted Canadian living in Yuma Arizona ( since 84) I had to laugh when I saw your lettuce post. On another note i am desperate for some peameal bacon sooo will try making my own from your recipe.
1 food lovers commented:
Since i am a transplanted Canadian living in Yuma Arizona ( since 84) I had to laugh when I saw your lettuce post. On another note i am desperate for some peameal bacon sooo will try making my own from your recipe.
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