Happy holidays! If your holiday season is like ours, food will be a common theme in your festivities. And rightly so. Sharing good food with loved ones is a way of celebrating our good fortune and passing on our traditions, culture, religion and family rituals. In our family, big, beautiful vegetable platters have become part
Beautiful vegetable platters for the holidays
Add a delicious, attractive and healthy option to your holiday season fare
Enjoy an onion
They’re tasty with flavours that run from spicy to sweet and surprisingly nutritious
Raw, sautéed, grilled, caramelized, fried or boiled, onions can be used in many different ways in an endless variety of dishes. In fact, onions are the most commonly used vegetable across the globe. We enjoy them for the crisp, spicy bite they provide when raw and the sweet, savoury depth they add when cooked. And
Food waste in Canada and our role at home
Just how much food is thrown away in Canada? Probably far more than you think
In Canada, as much as 40 per cent of our food is wasted. This waste happens at every step of the food chain, from fields to processing plants, to retail outlets to our homes. A study by Gooch et al in 2010 for Value Chain Management Report, showed consumers are the worst contributors of all,
Harvesting, storing and enjoying carrots
All carrots, in any form, are an excellent addition to any diet
Delicious, affordable and versatile, carrots are everything we could want in a vegetable. It’s no wonder this nutritious, subtly sweet root vegetable is loved by young and old and is one of the most popular root vegetables in the world, second only to potatoes. Carrots, whether red, purple, yellow or orange, are rich in fibre,
The latest in home canning
Grandma was wrong — you shouldn’t be boiling your lids, and beware of pressure cookers
Home canning has and continues to undergo constant changes. While it’s nice to romanticize about putting up food just like Grandma did, keeping up with the times and following canning processes based on scientific research will lead to much better and safer results. The most reliable and trusted source for current home canning standards in
Freezing your bounty of fruits and vegetables
Prairie Fare: As gardens hit high gear, it’s time to preserve some of the excess for the coming winter
Freezing is an easy, convenient and affordable way to preserve fruits and vegetables. In fact, when fresh produce is frozen shortly after being harvested, it can contain more nutrients than fresh vegetables that have been shipped long distances or stored in warehouses or on retail shelves. If you have a garden, a neighbour with surplus
It’s fruit-picking time
Prairie Fare: Make the most of Manitoba’s short season
We are fortunate to have an incredible variety of fruit here on the Prairies. We have apples, cherries, chokecherries, crabapples, currants, gooseberries, grapes, haskaps or honeyberries, melons, pears, plums, raspberries, saskatoons, strawberries and many more. It’s enough to make one’s mouth water. Our beautiful, jewel-coloured fruit is high in antioxidants, vitamins and nutrients making it
Food for farmers in the field
Prairie Fare: Chickpea Salad Sandwich or Wrap or how about Crunchy Oats & Honey Bars
Feeding farmers on the field and feeding them well is no easy task. You want to provide nourishing, tasty food that’s quick and easy to prepare, transport and eat. You also want to offer variety and make sure hot food stays hot and cold food stays cold. That’s a tall order, especially when you’re likely
Get grilling!
It’s time to dust off the barbecue and start enjoying delicious summer treats
At long last, it’s time to fire up the grill and enjoy delicious barbecued food. Whether you used your barbecue throughout the winter or are just bringing it out of hibernation, now’s the time to show it a little TLC and prepare it for grilling season. A clean grill not only looks great, it also
Put wheat and barley and other grains in your diet
The crops produced on Prairie farms don’t need processing to be eaten
Isn’t it ironic that we live in the Grain Belt of Canada and produce some of the world’s finest grains, but we rarely eat those grains until they’re processed? For the longest time, I didn’t even know you could cook raw wheat kernels just as they are. The only thing I ever ate out of
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
