Recipe Swap – for May. 12, 2011

That winter storm had many of us hunkered down for a few hours wondering if the calendar was somehow fast-forwarded to late October or thereabouts. But by the time you’re reading this, the weekend winter we woke up to May 1 should be long gone and spring back among us. Here’s a mix of lighter

It’s Spring… Somewhere Else!

The food magazines are filled with recipes for light salads and all things rhubarb right now, accompanied by stories of newly green backyard gardens and the joy of seasonal eating. Sigh! Evidently, they don’t live around here. Last time I checked, the yard was a vast stretch of mud, winter’s mess of strewn branches and


Eat At Home For Improved Nutrition And Cost Savings

Fewer than half of Canadians eat more than one cooked meal per day and 33 per cent of Canadians eat take-out at least once per week, according to research done by the Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition and Dietitians of Canada. Our tendency to reach for convenience foods either in the frozen food section

Why Eat Barley?

Arguably one of the oldest grains ever eaten, we “drink” this ancient grain more often than we eat it. Barley is also easy to find on store shelves, either as pearled or pot barley. Polishing to make pot or pearl barley removes the inedible hull, although that also removes some of the nutrients too. Whole


An Apple A Day – for Sep. 9, 2010

Suddenly apples are everywhere. If you’re fortunate to have a few Prairie-hardy apple varieties grown to gnarly maturity around your homes, you’ll be enjoying the many different flavours and textures of homegrown apples right now. Eating Manitoba-grown apples is a pleasure we owe to the apple-breeding efforts of the Morden Research Station, where most of



From Lake To Plate – for Jul. 29, 2010

If you tend to skip the fish section of the grocery store, unsure of how to cook fish or are lacking recipes to prepare it, a new cookbook is here to help. This is the new online cookbook,From Lake to Plateavailable through the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation, containing a huge variety of recipes collected from



Healthy Eating Starts With Healthy Food Choices

RECIPE SWAP This spring the Manitoba Canola Growers have joined forces with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba to produce Quick and Healthy Recipes: Volume 3, a new recipe book containing 15 heart-healthy recipes that promote eating less fat, especially saturated and trans fat, and reducing sodium, while increasing fibre in the diet. The

Caramel Toffee Squares

RECIPE SWAP By the time you read this, the holidays will have begun and the flurry of preparations near their end. Or, perhaps you haven’t been quite so busy getting ready this year. Many resolve to make Christmas a quieter, more serene occasion, buying less, and even doing less, in order to make more time