Latest Recipes

Breads, Muffins

Whole Grain Blueberry Muffins with stone ground flour

 

  Blueberry muffins made with stone ground flour are wholesome and healthy. I love a good blueberry muffin. I think muffins are the perfect mid morning snack but they need to be wholesome if I’m really going to enjoy them. The key to a tasty and nutritious muffin is to […]

Green Living

It’s easy to grow your own garlic

 

    One of the things that irks me to no end is that virtually all fresh garlic available at the grocery store is imported from China. I’m not opposed to importing foods like oranges and bananas, foods that can’t be grown in our climate. But garlic? Anyone with a […]

Vegetables

Roasted tomato sauce – like a mouthful of summer

 

  Roasted tomato sauce is sweet and flavourful. I can’t resist field-ripened local tomatoes. As far as I’m concerned, they’re the only tomatoes worth eating raw and they’re the very best for making roasted tomato sauce too. If you’re used to making your tomato sauce on the stovetop you’ll notice […]

Desserts

Easy blackberry galette

 

  This time of year the blackberries are so abundant near our camp that we have been picking them by the bucket full. It’s a bit of a blood sport the thorns are so rough but we hardly mind the scratches when we have galette to eat for dessert. I […]

Cookies

Homemade graham crackers – great for s’mores

 

  These crackers are perfect for campfire s’mores or as a crispy nibble alongside a cup of tea. As a child I loved graham crackers. I wasn’t wild about the cardboard texture but found the sweet graham flavour irresistible.  Nothing compares to the homemade version, especially with New Brunswick’s own Speerville […]