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Gifts from the kitchen

Prairie Fare: Giving gifts from the kitchen is a fun way to share a little of yourself with others this holiday season

By Getty Stewart December 1, 2017

If you prefer the kitchen to the mall, you still have plenty of time to make homemade edible gifts for the people on your list. Your recipients will appreciate a tasty treat and be touched by the sentiment and creativity you put into their gift. And you get to reminisce about each recipient while you’re

Cookies are delicious, but unbaked dough is unsafe for a number of reasons.

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Tasting cookie dough is hazardous for new reasons

Flour and some other grain-based foods have also been linked to foodborne illness outbreaks

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 24, 2017

Do you ever taste cookie dough? Licking the mixing spoon or pinching a chunk of batter from the bowl can be tempting. If you said “yes, I taste raw cookie dough,” give yourself a pat on the back for your honesty. Now I need to tell you to avoid the temptation of tasting raw doughs

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Trick-or-treat season calls for moderation

Prairie Fare: Cranberry-Oatmeal Cookie Mix, Cranberry-Oatmeal Cookies and Chewy Caramel Squares

By Julie Garden-Robinson October 30, 2015

Mom, they’re not noticing me!” my 12-year-old daughter said with a loud sigh as she looked into her nearly empty pumpkin pail. We were watching a parade, and some of the people on the parade floats were tossing out items such as footballs, stickers and candy. “Let’s straighten your bison hat. Be sure to smile,

Recipe Swap

How can you tame a sweet tooth?

Prairie Fare: New and improved Two-Ingredient Lemon Bars

By Julie Garden-Robinson July 31, 2015

Mom, why are they called cookies instead of ‘bakies?’” my 17-year-old daughter asked me. She was scooping cookie dough onto a tray for a 4-H food entry in the fair. “You bake cookies. You don’t cook them,” she continued. She likes to test me with unusual questions on a regular basis. I pondered her question

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Cap’n Crunch and chocolate chip cookies don’t score well

Researchers find that Canadian and U.S. labelling systems  make little difference

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 29, 2015

Canadian and U.S. nutrition labelling systems aren’t helpful in helping consumers make wise food choices, say McGill University researchers. In a study published in the December issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, the researchers compared four different labelling systems and found that the Nutrition Facts label currently required on most

Country Crossroads, Pulses

New ways to eat pulses

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By Lorraine Stevenson April 25, 2014

If you seldom eat beans, peas, lentils or chickpeas, your kids will probably someday wonder what you were eating. All kinds of pulse-based foods are popping up on store shelves, and are increasingly popular among a younger generation trying to eat healthier and smarter than their parents. That might have sounded like mission impossible not

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Steinbach mom develops gluten-free recipes

By Lorraine Stevenson April 26, 2013

Readers occasionally request gluten-free recipes, so I’d like to tell you about Jeanine Friesen this week. The Steinbach mother of two was diagnosed five years ago with Celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that makes the body unable to absorb gluten, affecting about one in every 100 to 200 people in Canada. The only treatment is to

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Afternoon tea a trip down memory lane

By Lorraine Stevenson April 18, 2013

Afternoon tea might evoke visions of finger sandwiches and clotted cream or pinkies held out affectedly. For me it brings back memories of being at my grandmother’s house after school. She always served what she called “tea,” which in her house was a late afternoon meal, or light supper. ‘Gram’ was born in Southhampton, England,

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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

Country Crossroads

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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