sliced turkey

Recipe Swap: Smaller meat cuts for smaller families

A stuffed turkey breast is a way to enjoy a Christmas food 
tradition if a whole bird is too much for your smaller brood


If you have a big extended family squeezed around the dining table next week, you’re blessed. The large, blood-relative family event seems to be going the way of the grandfather clock. Many extended families don’t gather as they once did at Christmas. Part of the reason is family members live farther apart nowadays. They can

Hutterite women making dumplings.

Secrets of a Hutterite Kitchen

Recipe Swap: Author Mary-Ann Kirkby takes us with her into the kitchens and dining rooms of colonies across Western Canada

Intercom systems may have replaced the large cast-iron bells that once sat atop the community kitchens on Hutterite colonies, but the tradition of “first call” remains. Fifteen minutes before everyone else is summoned to the dining room, elderly colony members, new mothers and caregivers of the sick are invited to eat. First call is one


Birch River 2001 Cookbook A Tribute To Land And Local People

RECIPE SWAP Homecoming 2001 Cookbook helped raise funds for town celebrations Holiday plans for many former Manitobans include a trip home this year. Homecoming 2010, a province-wide initiative, expects to lure at least 50,000 over the next few months. Hundreds of family, school and town reunions are planned. On May 15 over 60 towns will

125 Years Of Dining Memories In Strathclair

RECIPE SWAP Like so many early Prairie towns, present-day Strathclair grew up around a cluster of services for farmers – a grist mill, a church, a post office, a stopping-over house, a store. It’s now been more than 125 years since people began calling Strathclair, or “Strath,” as some say, home. Strathclair is one of

In Brief… – for May. 14, 2009

N calculator online: Anitrogen rate calculator for spring wheat, barley and canola can be downloaded from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives at http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/financial/farm/nitro gencalc. html. Users can evaluate different net-return per-acre scenarios involving N source and cost, the expected crop price and soil nitrogen (nitrate-N in pounds per acre to 24 inches deep). Users