Make more muffins If you bake, muffins are probably one of your most frequent productions. To your mothers and grandmothers, who had plenty of recipes for small quick breads, though, muffins may have been somewhat new or “trendy.” I recently came across a Country Guide column from August 1984 where writer Kathy Baranovsky described muffins
Recipe Swap, May 10, 2012
Campaign will highlight local food products
A $3-million jointly funded industry and government campaign supporting local food kicks off April 25
Manitobans can now clearly identify local food on store shelves with the launch of a new Buy Manitoba campaign at Canada Safeway stores in the province. The three-year local food promotion will see 33 stores decked out with sign-age and product identifiers encouraging shoppers to choose the more than 1,000 grocery products, including meat, freshFish dish wins gold at Food Fight
Anew table-ready fish product called Walleye Wonders knocked out the competition at this year’s Great Manitoba Food Fight and earned Meda Olson first place and $15,000 worth of research-and-development expertise from the Food Development Centre. “I knew I had a good product that’s different,” said Olson, a homemaker from St. Martin in the northern Interlake
Youth award goes to Russell siblings
Two Russell youth who started a fundraiser to help reunite immigrant families in their hometown are the 2012 winners of the Rural Youth Achievement Award presented last week in Brandon at Capturing Opportunities. Ayla Hamilton, 13 and her brother Van Hamilton, eight, were recognized for their extraordinary effort to start a “Kids Helping Kids” initiative
Supporting existing businesses a successful strategy for job creation
Business development expert says supporting innovative local entrepreneurs is the best way to boost a community’s economic fortunes
Helping existing businesses grow, rather than chasing big companies or fostering startups, is the best way to boost a community’s economic fortunes and create jobs. That’s the core of an economic-development approach dubbed “economic gardening,” business-development expert Robin Phelps told participants at the recent Capturing Opportunities conference. “You need the startups, but what about theseRecipe Swap, May 3, 2012
Fast and hearty meals for the field With everyone hitting the fields this week, there’s no time for fooling around with fussy stuff, so here’s a few quick-to-make meals, including two “farm tested,” plus a great one-dish “bake-and-take” dessert and my own favourite cookie recipe. Work safe, everyone! Scrawny Ronnie’s Killer Casserole This recipe comes
New campaign urges Manitobans to buy local food
Increasing awareness of food products produced and processed in Manitoba and making them easily identifiable to consumers on store shelves and on restaurant menus are objectives of new Buy Manitoba campaign
A new campaign launched in Manitoba this week will urge food shoppers to “taste, smile, repeat,” by discovering Manitoba-grown, -raised and -processed foods and buying them more often. Buy Manitoba is a multi-year awareness and promotion which was to be unveiled at a Canada Safeway in Winnipeg April 26. It will help consumers easily identifyAdaptation councils lose budget
Regional agriculture adaptation councils across Canada are losing their role as administrators of the federal Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP) after March 2014, in a move by the federal government to centralize the program out of Ottawa. The moved was flagged in federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s 2012 budget last month, which announced Agriculture and
Full steam ahead for Portage food processor
The founder of a Portage la Prairie company that uses culled fruits and veggies for baby foods, soups and other foods expects to create 60 new jobs after receiving a $2.5-million federal government loan. Kelly Beaulieu said her company, Canadian Prairie Garden Purée Products, will also utilize large amounts of “less than eye perfect” fruits
Recipe Swap, April 26, 2012
A Winnipeg home economist and founder of Fruit Share has just released a new book on harvesting, preserving and using locally grown fruits that includes 150 recipes
More fruits of her labour As a little girl, Getty Stewart loved all the fresh fruit growing on her parents’ farm in Germany. After emigrating to Canada with her family, she quickly learned to love the taste of Prairie-grown fruit too. Later living in Winnipeg, she continued to buy local fruit at farmers’ markets andCyber-Savvy Farmer
