Jicama with avocado and
cilantro dip.

Beautiful vegetable platters for the holidays

Add a delicious, attractive and healthy option to your holiday season fare

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

A good way to minimize food waste this Christmas is concentrating on a few family favourites that always go over well.

Cut food waste this holiday season

Prairie Fare: The first step is minimizing leftovers with proper planning and meal preparation


As I peered in our refrigerator the other day, I noticed some small containers with dabs of leftovers that had just reached their “time to toss” phase. I always feel guilty when we throw away food in our home. To help use any extra servings, I eat left­overs almost every day at work. Unfortunately, sometimes


More Questions For Reena – for Sep. 1, 2011

Hi Reena, I am planning to install pot lights in my newly renovated home. Are there any guidelines as to where to place the lights? Dear Bentley, Try not to place lights too close together or in rows down the centre of the room. You don’t want to create an airport runway appearance. Match the

In Brief… – for Feb. 24, 2011

Correction:The building on the Reimer farm now housing Manitoba’s new model fish operation near Warren was in the past occasionally used for chicken rearing, but was most recently used to store farm machinery. A story in our Feb. 17 issue identified the facility as a former chicken barn. – Staff Food rights:India continues to face

Eggplant No Longer The “Mad Apple”

Eggplant is a very versatile vegetable. It can be roasted, grilled, fried, steamed, sautéed or cooked. It is high in water content and low in calories at just 18 calories per half-cup of cooked eggplant and provides some fibre, vitamin C and iron. Eggplant history dates back to early China. When the eggplant made its


Supper-In-The-Field 2010 – for Aug. 26, 2010

A taste of the Parklands I seldom turn down a dinner invitation, but it’s taken Parkland Tourism all of seven years to find me seated under their big white tent in Riding Mountain National Park for a very special meal. That’s how many years they’ve been serving a “Supper-in-the-Field,” a sumptuous late-summer event established to


W – for Jun. 4, 2009

With most gardens now planted and spring inching along, we’re all looking forward to the first appearance, and then that first feast of anything homegrown and green. Asparagus is in full seasonal swing right now. It won’t be long before we’re enjoying platefuls of young lettuces and other dishes made with spring greens too. This