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We need photos!

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:44:19 +0000

We need your help! We're looking for photos to use for a free kit of 8 food skills workshop that will be shared across NL! [...]

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4Ps Library- December- Gift ideas!

Sarah — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:31:28 +0000

We're getting creative here coming up with fun gift ideas inspired by the 4 Ps of Local Food: planting, picking, preparing and preserving. Try one of these to light up the faces of the foodies on your gift list! (Cat picture taken prior to receiving awesome gift, seriously) [...]

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Out of the frying pan, into the… jam jar?

Andreae C — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:48:40 +0000

A little while ago, I wrote about my new love of herbed fruit jams. Before that, I told you about the Japanese knotweed jelly I was enjoying. If you hadn’t figured it out, I really love making jellies and jams.

I’ve said before that preserves make me feel rich. All lined up in my pantry, they’re like luminous jewels, ensuring that, no matter what goes wrong in this world, I have something tasty to spread on my toast.

There was a time when I didn’t consider anything less than an 6-pint batch of jam to be [...]

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A new kind of jam

Andreae C — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:25:36 +0000

I managed to get over to my favourite u-pick here in St. John’s last week. I picked and picked and picked and came home with far more strawberries than I could possibly eat. Which was just fine, because these berries were destined for the jam pot. My husband and daughter both love strawberry jam. I, on the other hand, am not entirely crazy about it. Since I had such a huge load of berries, I decided to make some plain jam (to please the family) and some fancy jam (to impress myself, since I’m not sure anyone else really cares [...]

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Livin’ the dream: the one-year challenge

Andreae C — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:18:33 +0000

Chocolate mint for tea

I am delighted to say that we have officially come to that point in the summer when I eat something I have grown or gathered every single day. Every day! Sometimes it’s part of a main dish, like my grilled rapini pizza from a few weeks back, or like the turnip top quiche I made from my very own home-grown greens last week, or like the tasty pasta I whipped up with my first ever garden garlic scapes. Sometimes it’s just a sprinkle of basil and parsley on my [...]

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She Certainly Can… Can-Can!

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:04:29 +0000

Keynote Blogger: Andreae Prozesky, Food Nerd, The Scope

I’m not a rich woman. I probably never will be. I take my feelings of wealth where I can find them. The gleam of apple jelly through the criss-cross pattern of my favourite canning jars is likely as close as I’ll ever get to a real diamonds. My translucent bottles of berries, cherries, plums, and rhubarb are like rubies and amethysts and garnets and topaz to me. Peering into my pantry, I feel as though I’ve just walked into Tiffany’s.

Jewels and stones might [...]

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