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Is it over for Jell-O?

Recipe Swap: Key Lime Cloud Squares and Creme Caramel Squares

By Lorraine Stevenson September 18, 2014

You’ve probably heard about Jell-O’s unsteady fortunes lately. Business and food writers have been weighing in on that double-digit (19 per cent) drop in sales since 2009 of this one-time mainstay of dessert makers. We seem to have fallen out of love with Jell-O and although the future doesn’t look good for the wiggly stuff,

These eight women make up half the current number of Valley Harvest Maids, a non-profit group of volunteer cooks who’ve been baking and cooking traditional meals at the Pembina Threshermen’s Museum since the late 1960s. Pictured (l to r) are Judy Thiessen, Esther Wieler, Mary Penner, Tina Holenski, Gert Hiebert, Katharina Peters, Mary Zacharias and Tina Friesen. Jake Buhler, in back, is the vice-president of the Pembina Threshermen’s Museum who was helping out in the kitchen last week. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

Country Crossroads, Local news

VIDEO: Forty years of ‘old-fashioned food’

Women in the cheerful kitchen of the Valley Harvest Maids at the Threshermen’s museum between Morden and Winkler keep everyone very well fed with the traditional recipes

By Lorraine Stevenson September 8, 2014

Would you be calm with 1,000 or more expected for dinner, bringing with them big appetites and even bigger expectations that your cooking will be just as good as it’s always been for over 40 years? You are if you’re a Valley Harvest Maid. On a sunny August afternoon, a half-dozen women from the farms

Mentoring food and business skills among a younger generation, and closer connection to consumers are some of the benefits that will come from improving the business environment for smaller-scale direct marketers, said proponents at MAFRD-hosted consultations across Manitoba. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

Livestock, News, Poultry

Small-scale producers want regs re-evaluated

Supply management limits and restrictions on advertising were among the concerns

By Meghan Mast August 21, 2014

Producers attending public consultations on small-scale food production last week had a consistent message — the current system prohibits their success, and food safety rules and regulations need to be re-evaluated. Not everyone is so lucky. Monika Zinn, a small-scale mixed-livestock producer in Springfield, raises and directly markets chickens. She was not grandfathered. She said

Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Have you tried eggplant?

Recipe Swap: Ratatoullie and Wilted Rainbow Chard with Seared Eggplant and Parsley Vinaigrette

By Julie Garden-Robinson August 21, 2014

I recall the first time I brought home an eggplant from the grocery store. I probably would have gotten similar attention if I brought a martian home for dinner. I pulled it out of the shopping bag and set it on the counter. My husband and our kids gathered around and examined it. As I

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

Prairie fare: prolific zucchini has many uses

Recipe Swap: Skillet Zucchini with Chopped Tomatoes and Beefy Zucchini Casserole

By Julie Garden-Robinson August 14, 2014

Julie is a North Dakota State University Extension Service food and nutrition specialist and professor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise sciences. I was admiring my neighbour’s garden the other day, especially her robust zucchini plants. I noticed some tender, young zucchini squash peeking out from under the foliage. I could almost taste

Country Crossroads, Recipe Swap

You can’t eat your lawn but…

Recipe Swap: Tomato and Zucchini Gratin and Waldorf Berry Salad

By Lorraine Stevenson August 7, 2014

Is a lawn “beautiful?” Is a vegetable garden “ugly?” Or is it the other way around? It depends who you ask. A press release plinked into my mailbox from the folks with Food Matters Manitoba last week announcing their second annual Manitoba Garden Makeover Competition. It’s urging Manitobans to convert their lawns into an “edible

Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Pulses, Recipe Swap

Food Day in Canada

RecipeSwap: Lentils and Barley Salad with Roasted Tomatoes, Spinach and Goat Cheese, Barbecue Sauce, Wild Cranberry Vinaigrette, Prairie Spice Cake

By Lorraine Stevenson July 31, 2014

Ever wondered why we get to spend next Monday sleeping in, watching parades, and setting off fireworks? We have Toronto City Hall — no, not the current installation — to thank. Way back in 1869, the council of the day decided everybody needed “a day of recreation” and declared the first Monday of August a

healthy groceries, lettuce, cherry tomatoes and vegetables

Opinion

Study documents benefits of organic farming

Organic crops had 18 to 69 per cent higher concentrations of antioxidant compounds meaning consumers get more nutrition per calorie

By Washington State University July 23, 2014

Washington State University – The largest study of its kind has found that organic foods and crops have a suite of advantages over their conventional counterparts, including more antioxidants and fewer, less frequent pesticide residues. The study looked at an unprecedented 343 peer-reviewed publications comparing the nutritional quality and safety of organic and conventional plant-based

Most North Americans use velvet antler as dried powder in capsules, for recovery from injury or exercise, to boost testosterone, and improve circulation.

Livestock, Oilseeds, Opinion, Other livestock

Regaining access to China markets

Tainted food scandals have convinced Chinese buyers that imports are safer

By Ian Thorleifson July 22, 2014

Cervid (elk and other deer) products have been used and prized in China for at least 2,700 years. That makes China a very valuable marketplace for cervid products. Indeed, it was a good market until Canada and the U.S. took action to contain and eradicate BSE in early 2003. China immediately closed its markets to

Amy and Donald Nikkel live with their two young children, Eli, age 2-1/2, and Alexis, five, on their small farm where they grow naked oats near
Lundar.

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Oats at a slower pace

Good food should be an excuse to slow down, say made-in-Manitoba cereal makers

By Lorraine Stevenson July 21, 2014

Some think boiling water for porridge takes too much time. The Nikkel household grows the oats and rolls them in their own mill first. Amy and Donald Nikkel, Interlake school teachers, set out five years ago to start farming at a pace and scale that made sense for their own busy lives. Today they are

Daily Network News

USDA defends $12 billion subsidy amid farm economy challenges

Canada December retail sales down 0.4 per cent; seen up 1.5 per cent in January

Feed Grains Weekly: Domestic prices remain flat

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