In Praise Of The Potluck

Friends and neighbours in the Carman area sat down to a potluck meal and end-of-the-garden- year talk on a snowy night last week. The last meeting of the year for Carman Garden Club always includes a feast and seed exchange in the Home Economics Room of the local high school. As per usual, this meal-with-no-particular-

Recipe Swap – for Nov. 11, 2010

On the Veteran’s Affairs Canada website is a site devoted to helping young people learn about the families’ experiences of life during the war. Included on the website is a series of recipes that reflected the minimal use of ingredients. Here is one of the recipes found on that site at www.vac-acc.gc.ca/youth/sub. cfm? source=activities/kidszone/recipes. WARTIME


Passing On A Family Tradition

When I was a child, one of my favourite places to visit was my grandparents’ house. I was always spoiled by them and Grandma always had treats. She loved to take me shopping and there were so many fun things to do at their house, providing me with wonderful memories of our time together. One

Baked Goodness

As harvest nears completion and small windows of time open up at home, more of us are inclined to spend time making family favourite sweets and desserts. Many of us bake as a means of creative expression. Baking for our family and friends is a way of showing generosity. It is a way we remind



Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Jul. 1, 2010

RECIPE SWAP It was a pleasure to open the mail the other day and find a package of recipes sent to us courtesy of the Anglican Church Women in Stonewall. They enclosed a photocopy of their 125th anniversary’s cookbook cover bearing the image of Stonewall’s pretty-as-a-picture Church of the Ascension. They also sent a brief


Thanks For The Cookbooks

RECIPE SWAP When we put out a call for community cookbooks this winter, we were confident we’d hear from some of you – and you delivered! Health centres, church groups, festival organizers, community park stewards, 4-H clubs, women’s groups, homecoming committees, dance groups and ag societies – cookbooks came from all of these and more.


Honour Your Mother

Attention all you young folks for I have a word or two It’s time to let your mother know how much she means to you. Forget the times she scolded for she wasn’t being cruel Or when you said you had a headache and she sent you off to school. When you had to hug

The Cookbook That Slowed The River

Recipe Requests We’ve had several requests for recipes in the last couple of weeks including one from June Carter of Winnipeg who is looking for a recipe for Chinese Stew, from Trinia Kell of Elm Creek who is seeking creamy homemade candy recipes using milk powder, and Betty Nicholls of Portage la Prairie who would