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Medium Rare Beef Roast Served with Various Vegetables

Six meals by 16 years

Do your kids know the basics?

By Lorraine Stevenson April 4, 2014

Spring can’t come soon enough this year, and neither can spring break. It’s a great time for families to take a short vacation, or spend some downtime together at home. Will you cook or bake with your kids this week, or let the older ones make a few meals? Many wouldn’t dream of letting the

Country Crossroads, Hogs, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Slow down and fill up

Slower eating makes you feel full sooner

By Lorraine Stevenson January 22, 2014

Slow down. If you speed while driving, there’s trouble ahead. You’re not doing your body any good rushing through meals either. Obesity experts warn how fast eating shuts off the signal from the gut to the brain that tells us we’ve eaten enough. It takes at least 20 minutes to make the trip. So if

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock Markets, News

Traders prepare to go long lean hogs

By Gavin Maguire March 28, 2013

The lean hog market is approaching a well-defined seasonal bottom that usually occurs during the opening half of April, and a number of traders are gearing up to go long that commodity over the coming weeks. They hope to be in position ahead of any upturn in values fuelled by a drop in fresh meat

Country Crossroads

Food safety for older adults

By Health Canada Release March 28, 2013

Health Canada is reminding Canadians of the importance of food safety for older adults. As we age, it becomes harder for our immune systems to fight off harmful bacteria. This means that older adults can come down with a serious illness if they eat contaminated food. For this reason, it is very important for older

Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets, Poultry

Cold start to spring slows demand for high-quality U.S. beef

By Michael Hirtzer March 28, 2013

Wholesale prices for choice grade have dipped below lower-quality cuts Persistently cold weather and snowfall on the first day of spring have crimped demand for high-quality cuts of beef in the United States at a time of year that typically sees increased purchases for so-called grilling season, analysts and traders said March 21. In a

Country Crossroads

That’s a good idea

By Stan Harder February 6, 2013

We all do things we don’t consider particularly profound until someone says, “That’s a good idea.” Here’s one of those things. In fall I take about two gallons of ordinary gravel, pick out and discard any chunks larger than about half an inch and then run the balance through an ordinary pasta sieve to remove

Country Crossroads

Let’s try to waste less food

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 30, 2012

Have you thrown out any food recently? Did you find less-than-appetizing food hiding in your refrigerator? Was it in an opaque container that may have startled you when you opened it to view the contents? Have you happened upon food well past its “use by” date in your cupboard or refrigerator? If you discarded food

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

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.

Country Crossroads, News

Cooking from…“speed scratch?”

By Julie Garden-Robinson October 26, 2012

Some days you can’t get the food on the table fast enough. On those days, consider “speed scratch” cooking methods when time is short and your family members are sitting at the table with their knives and forks in hand. Speed scratch is a term used when you combine ready-to-use fresh foods (such as salad

Country Crossroads

Tips and questions

By Reena Nerbas August 21, 2012

Dear Reena, I just discovered a method for freezing peaches and it is a wonderful time and mess saver. This works the same way as freezing whole tomatoes and it is so easy! Just freeze the whole peach, with skin and all, and when it is time to use it, run it under hot water

Daily Network News

Large gap in canola ending stocks between AAFC, USDA

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs rally

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans hit lowest prices since October on big supplies

Tag Archives Cooking

Six meals by 16 years

Recipe Swap: Slow down and fill up

Traders prepare to go long lean hogs

Food safety for older adults

Cold start to spring slows demand for high-quality U.S. beef

That’s a good idea

Let’s try to waste less food

Recipe Swap: Meat recall is a wake-up call

Cooking from…“speed scratch?”

Tips and questions

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