You’ve probably heard about Jell-O’s unsteady fortunes lately. Business and food writers have been weighing in on that double-digit (19 per cent) drop in sales since 2009 of this one-time mainstay of dessert makers. We seem to have fallen out of love with Jell-O and although the future doesn’t look good for the wiggly stuff,
Is it over for Jell-O?
Recipe Swap: Key Lime Cloud Squares and Creme Caramel Squares
Food banks want that garden overload
Recipe Swap: Summer Beet Salad and Carefree Cabbage Roll Casserole
Do you have a garden full of vegetables you can’t possibly use? That heady excitement that goes with garden centre visits in spring often leads to surplus vegetables in fall you can’t even give away. Everyone else has the same problem. But you can give them away. Your local food bank will be glad to
A new Irma Harding calendar
Earlier this year we told you about the release of the cookbook Canning, Pickling and Freezing with Irma Harding by Marilyn McCray published by Octane Press and featuring updated recipes popularized by the composite character of Irma, who was created by International Harvester to help promote the company’s line of refrigerators and freezers. Octane Press
VIDEO: Forty years of ‘old-fashioned food’
Women in the cheerful kitchen of the Valley Harvest Maids at the Threshermen’s museum between Morden and Winkler keep everyone very well fed with the traditional recipes
Would you be calm with 1,000 or more expected for dinner, bringing with them big appetites and even bigger expectations that your cooking will be just as good as it’s always been for over 40 years? You are if you’re a Valley Harvest Maid. On a sunny August afternoon, a half-dozen women from the farms
Breakfast for Learning programs help kids get ahead in school
Recipe Swap: No-Bake Breakfast Bars
Summer is so short. No sooner has it arrived, and it’s already leaving. And nothing signals its end more than the arrival of the big orange bus at the end of the lane. The last few days have been a flurry of back-to-school prep, buying school supplies, making lists, getting haircuts and trying on new
VIDEO: Manitoba hops crop a growing concern
A Manitoba hops grower is hoping to find a way of mechanizing her harvest
You’ll catch a fragrant whiff of potpourri if you stroll through Sandra Gowan’s hop yard during harvest. This is her sixth year growing the aromatic beer-making ingredient on her Rosser-area acreage, and in late August, their aroma hangs in the air. “When the hops are getting ready to be harvested, and you walk up and
Boil it. Grill it. You’re done
Recipe Swap: Cheddar Corn Pie, Corn Fritters, and Corn Casserole
As I wrote this, Morden’s Corn and Apple Festival was just about to begin. We go every year. It’s one of my favourite summer festivals, equal parts midway, farmers’ market, street sale, annual homecoming and for many, a chance for a rare taste of corn on the cob. If you’ve been to the Corn and
Report sounds alarm for food processing in Manitoba
Trouble in the pork and potato industries could put a $100-million drag on food processing in Manitoba, a new report says
Manitoba’s food-processing sector could take a $100-million nose-dive by 2020 if challenges faced by two of its three biggest players — pork and potatoes — aren’t addressed soon. That’s the worst-case or “business-as-usual” scenario laid out in a recent study by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University. Researchers gathered data from Statistics Canada
VIDEO: Don’t call these tiny horses ‘ponies’
Bringing Icelandic horses to Manitoba was a dream of his late father’s. Nearly 30 years later they’re still part of the Arnason family
Brett Arnason remembers the first time he saw an Icelandic horse. This was no horse, he thought. This was a pony. But his father Frank, in the mid-1980s, who was raising thoroughbreds near here thought otherwise. The elder Arnason had grown increasingly interested in the capabilities of the Icelandic horse, and had started to talk
Video: Exhibit shows pollination isn’t only done by bees
Museum curator Diana Bizecki Robson hopes it helps public deepen their understanding of all types of pollinators and to take actions that help these organisms thrive
account_id=”2206156280001″ player_id=”ryGLIkmv”] Diana Bizecki Robson is the Manitoba Museum’s curator of botany who created the Prairie pollination exhibit to help enhance public appreciation of all types of wild pollinators, and motivate people to make positive changes to save them.[/caption] Bizecki Robson has spent a decade researching Prairie pollinators and their habitats, helping make new discoveries
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