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Recipe Swap: Operation Donation

By Lorraine Stevenson February 12, 2013

If you’re a Farmers’ Almanac reader, you’ll have heard of the ‘Wolf moon’ of January and February’s ‘Hunger moon.’ Aboriginal people gave these names to the months of winter because there wasn’t much food around. The heavy snow of February made hunting very difficult. A different sort of ‘hunger moon’ hangs over those with empty

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Recipe Swap: The sunshine vitamin

By Lorraine Stevenson February 6, 2013

Some of you might remember how you started cold winter days as kids with a tablespoon of cod liver oil. Mom always had it waiting on the corner of the kitchen table before I left for school — yeech! But it was good for us. It was a valuable dose of vitamin D, which, until

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Recipe Swap: Molasses for a slow day in January

By Lorraine Stevenson January 17, 2013

We have so many sayings about cooking and eating. We butter someone up. Something sells like hotcakes. Or it is slow as molasses in January. That one dates from the days when we took jugs to the general store to refill with molasses. You waited and waited… and waited for it to dribble out in

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Recipe Swap: A new food for a new year

By Lorraine Stevenson January 6, 2013

RecipeSwap A new food for a new year If you haven’t heard of quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wa) you’ll definitely hear more about it this year. 2013 is a new beginning for this very old, gluten-free ancient grain, which actually isn’t even a grain. It’s a seed, grown, harvested and eaten for centuries in an Andean-origin diet.

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Recipe Swap, Nov. 29, 2012

By Lorraine Stevenson December 6, 2012

Soybeans have become a success story for agriculture in Manitoba. That sea of soy this past summer was a record-breaking 857,000 acres. Yet familiar as we’ve become with growing it, it’s a relative rarity in our diet. We may drink soy beverages more often, or sprinkle a little soy sauce on our stir-fries, or consume

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Recipe Swap: Pie crusts

By Lorraine Stevenson November 29, 2012

I decided to try a new pie crust recipe last August. This new recipe calls for vodka, so I knew it would be marvellous. Full of enthusiasm to try something new, I headed out to our orchard to get some apples. The tree was literally hanging with ripe fruit, and being the food hoarder that

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Recipe Swap: November and “Mo Bros”

By Lorraine Stevenson November 21, 2012

Know anyone starting to look like Burt Reynolds about now? At mid-November a new moustache will be showing on anyone taking part in Movember. This is the month men taking part in the global men’s health awareness project are growing a ’stache to raise awareness and fundraise for men’s health, specifically prostrate cancer research and

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Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call

By Lorraine Stevenson November 9, 2012

Just days after the Food and Agriculture Organization’s report how one-third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted every year, the XL Foods scandal began. Now we’re hearing that at least two million pounds of beef, the equivalent of about 6,000 to 7,000 cattle, is heading to Alberta landfills. It’s the largest E.

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Recipe Swap: How we cook(ed) in Canada

By Lorraine Stevenson October 26, 2012

Unless we keep journals or blog, few of us ever write our own story — our mothers and grandmothers certainly didn’t have much time to do so. So written records of their life’s experiences can be hard to find. But often their cookbooks have tales to tell. In the late 1990s, Ontario librarian and archivist

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Recipe Swap: Meat again (and again and again)

By Lorraine Stevenson October 17, 2012

Some people keep food diaries, or a daily account of what and how much they eat. It can be a shocking read. All those snacks! Take these records to a dietitian, and we may get another eye-opener: the amount of meat we consume. Susan Watson is a registered dietitian and weight-loss coach in Winnipeg. Clients

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Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Operation Donation

Recipe Swap: The sunshine vitamin

Recipe Swap: A new food for a new year

Recipe Swap, Nov. 29, 2012

Recipe Swap: Pie crusts

Recipe Swap: November and “Mo Bros”

Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call

Recipe Swap: How we cook(ed) in Canada

Recipe Swap: Meat again (and again and again)

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