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A new kind of jam

Delicious strawberry-rosemary jam

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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Recipes

garden food

Local food recipes galore! Start from the garden, the field, the farmers’ market or your CSA box, and bring it all together for delicious, sustainable, Newfoundland and Labrador inspired local food meals all year-round. Do you have a recipe or link to share? Post them on the Forum page!

Blogs & Websites with many excellent local food recipes

Bernardine

Bidgood’s

Culinate

Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program

FoodManitoba

Get Local BC

Gluten-Free Girl [...]

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You make me wanna sprout!

sprouting jars, photo credit: http://www.localphilosophy.com/blog/index.php/tag/sprouting-jars/

In Newfoundland and Labrador we produce a huge abundance and variety of leafy greens for a lot of the year, but they’re sparse come wintertime. If you’re missing summer salads and need a boost after all the heavy holiday eating, there is a way to get local greens into your life way before spring, and it is so extremely simple. In your own kitchen you can easily grow the powerhouse of plants, the sultan of salads, the emporium of enzymes…sprouts! [...]

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Celebrate the holidays in local food style

Gift in a jar - photo source: http://cosmocricket.typepad.com/cosmo_cricket/2009/04/jam-jar-gift.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtjjQnBxnfw”

This time of year it’s easy to get stressed and to spend money we don’t have as we rush to get ready for dinners, gifts, and visitors. But apply some of these values of the local food movement to your plans, and you’ll find that you can have a more relaxing, creative, joyful, and community-based holiday season this year. [...]

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She Certainly Can… Can-Can!

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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