Recipe Swap – for Jan. 14, 2010

RECIPE SWAP One of the best things about community cookbooks is all the names they contain. It’s one of the things Yvonne Jansen cherishes most about the cookbook she and three other local women created in Cypress River in 1995. “You know the people in it,” she says. “It makes you think of home.” 1995

Vidir Cookbook

RECIPE SWAP We’re always looking for favourite recipes from readers. Do you have one to share? Can we help you track down a specific recipe? Let us know if you’re looking for something and we’ll publish your requests. Published by the Vidir Ladies Aid cookbook in 1962. A second printing in 1982. On a July


Apple Cider Fresh From The Press

Each time I walked by the bags of apples in my garage, I felt guilty. They were beautiful, small crabapples but I couldn’t find time to juice them. In previous autumns I would have spent hours quartering each apple, boiling water and sealing jars. This year, I couldn’t even find a few minutes in my

Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Oct. 1, 2009

RECIPE SWAP Tip For Slicing Raw Pumpkin Margaret Heise of Hamiota sends this tip for slicing a raw pumpkin without needing to get out the chain-saw. Microwave the whole pumpkin for one minute on high or slightly longer depending on size. Split the pumpkin in half and scoop out the seeds. Turn upside down on


W – for Aug. 27, 2009

RECIPE SWAP Alma Barkman of Winnipeg sends us this delightful story and recipe for this week. After his parents passed away, Murray, by then in his mid-30s, was left alone in their rural cottage several miles from where I grew up over 60 years ago. Beyond the yard, where he parked his old pickup under

W – for Jun. 18, 2009

RECIPE SWAP It’s anyone’s guess what will happen in the fields this spring, but at least we know some of our garden vegetables, such as lettuce, leeks and onions, will likely do well in this cool weather. I transplanted bunching onions from the garden at the farm to our town garden and they’re doing just


Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Mar. 26, 2009

RECIPE SWAP Right now, spring is everywhere – somewhere else. Don’t you feel a bit cheated to know the world’s turning pale green and pastel in other, warmer places, while here winter seems to hang on and on and on? Still, we can’t help feel it’s already spring here too, by many measures. One of

This Recipe Swap is a way to share your best recipes and those you’re most often asked for. Do you have a great recipe to share? Send it it us and we’ll publish it here. How about more cookie recipes? No one can have too many of those. Or tell us abo

Everyone loves a good cookie. Co-operator reader Doris Jordan of Melita has sent us some terrific cookie recipes for our Recipe Swap this week. She also included interesting notes on how she acquired these recipes herself, such as her Pecan Kiss cookie recipe sourced from Georgian bird-dog trainers visiting southwestern Manitoba. Thanks so much, Doris.


In praise of apples

Apples, apples, apples, it is the season. What do you do with an orchard full of apples? You make apple pie, apple crisp, apple sauce, apple cake, apple strudel, apple soup if you are really adventurous, and you search the web for new and exciting recipes. I visited an orchard the other day with eight