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Oats at a slower pace

By Lorraine Stevenson July 21, 2014

Some think boiling water for porridge takes too much time. The Nikkel household grows the oats and rolls them in their own mill first. Amy and Donald Nikkel, Interlake school teachers, set out five years ago to start farming at a pace and scale that made sense for their own busy lives. Today they are[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Bring on the barley

By Lorraine Stevenson June 26, 2014

Anita Stewart, a well-known food writer in Canada, has high praise for a new barley cookbook. She calls it “a glimpse into the future of the food life of North America.” Go Barley: Modern Recipes for an Ancient Grain, with 100-plus recipes, was released this spring, written by home economists Pat Inglis and Linda Whitworth,[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Raising the bar

By Lorraine Stevenson December 5, 2013

It’s been about a year since we told you about Colleen Dyck, the Manitoba farmer launching her GORP energy bar made with the hemp, oats, flax, sunflower seeds and honey and other ingredients grown on her Niverville farm. Colleen was gearing up production after more than seven years creating the recipe and marketing strategy for[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Steinbach mom develops gluten-free recipes

By Lorraine Stevenson April 27, 2013

Readers occasionally request gluten-free recipes, so I’d like to tell you about  Jeanine Friesen this week. The Steinbach mother of two was diagnosed five years ago with Celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that makes the body unable to absorb gluten, affecting about one in every 100 to 200 people in Canada. The only treatment is to[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Live well? Eat well?

By Lorraine Stevenson March 1, 2013

Become the next ‘Be Well’ storyteller Everyone loves a great story and it’s even better when the one telling it also lives it. That’s what you’ll hear and see in the ‘Be Well’ Stories told by Manitobans now found online at http://canolarecipes.com. The three inspiring video stories are those of Doug Chorney, East Selkirk farmer and Keystone Agricultural[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Use more pulses, whole grains for a gluten-free diet

By Lorraine Stevenson May 31, 2012

You’re probably seeing more gluten-free products on your store shelves lately. But while all those new pastas, breads and cereals help those with a diagnosis of celiac disease or gluten sensitivity manage their complicated eating plan, they aren’t the most nutritious foods they could be eating. Why pulses? Pulses are naturally gluten free, but they are also[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, The Jacksons

The Jacksons

By Rollin Penner January 4, 2013

That’s it for the Mayans then I guess,” said Andrew Jackson resignedly folding his newspaper and laying it on the table next to his plate. “December 21st of 2012 came and went and the only thing that ended was the Mayan calendar.” Rose looked up from her own reading. “At least the doomsday prophets will be[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: The benefits of barley

By Lorraine Stevenson August 10, 2012

How often do you add pot or pearled barley to your soups or stews, or bake with barley flour? Canadians don’t eat much barley — we consume it as beer, mostly — but that’s going to change as our perceptions of the food value of this crop start to shift, thanks to a new health claim[...]

Cereals, Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap March 29, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2012

Spring out of bed and eat “like a king”Even if you’re not a morning person it’s so much easier getting up with earlier sun these bright spring mornings. It’s also more tempting to skip breakfast when the weather’s fine and there’s so much to do outside. But the old saying “breakfast like a king and dine like[...]

Beef cattle, Cereals, Country Crossroads, News, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: March 8, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson March 14, 2012

I grin each time I spot this recipe in community cookbooks, new or old. It is for Stay-A-Bed-Stew. Obviously, it’s an all-time favourite — but why? Stay-A-Bed-Stew is from The I Hate to Cook Book published by Peg Bracken in 1960. Bracken was an American advertising copywriter and a working mother in the late 1950s,[...]

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Oats at a slower pace

Bring on the barley

Recipe Swap: Raising the bar

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Recipe Swap: Use more pulses, whole grains for a gluten-free diet

The Jacksons

Recipe Swap: The benefits of barley

Recipe Swap March 29, 2012

Recipe Swap: March 8, 2012

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