Canning: A Matter of Life and Death

September 28, 2010 By Christine 2 Comments

Home-canned food has saved us from starvation on more than one occasion. On a snowy winter’s day, when the fridge was looking bare and I couldn’t go get groceries ’cause the driveway needed plowing, but the tractor was out of diesel, and the only local pizza delivery place decided they “wouldn’t risk it”, I’ve bounced [...]

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Leek Soup x 2

November 23, 2009 By Christine Leave a Comment

The original recipe for this Cream of Leek Soup can be traced back to a French cooking course my mother took years and years ago. It was gracefully aging into an “old family recipe” before I decided, just this evening, to ‘veganize’ and ‘babify’ it, and give it a new name (sacrilege!). In our house, we worship the gods [...]

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Zunuksuk

September 16, 2009 By Christine Leave a Comment

I also have a love/hate relationship with recipes that promise to “put a dent in that zucchini harvest”.

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