Recipe Swap – for May. 27, 2010

Outdoor work builds up big appetites this time of year, just as most of us have the least amount of time to cook. Meanwhile, first-of-the-season garden vegetables like asparagus, green onions, and rhubarb (and yes, rhubarb is a vegetable) beg for special recipes to enjoy them to the max. Here’s a mix of recipes from

Send Recipes Or Recipe Requests To: – for Nov. 5, 2009

RECIPE SWAP We’ve been talking lately about pasta as a popular durum wheat-based food, but what about couscous? Well, what about couscous, you may say. Most have heard of it, but few of us are familiar with it. It surprises me that neither couscous, nor its cousin bulgur, has not become more popular. It is,


Say Thank You To The “Spaghetti Farmers”

The CWB has launched a national contest to celebrate World Pasta Day on October 25, encouraging children to send a big thank you to Prairie “spaghetti farmers” for producing the main ingredient in pasta, an unfailing kids’ favourite. “Pasta is big business for farmers in Western Canada, where we produce more durum wheat than anywhere

Partly Barley, Partly Pulse

Can delicious and nutritious pasta get any better? Technical specialists at the Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI) say “yes” and they’re working on the recipe to prove it. By substituting a portion of the traditional durum semolina with barley or pulse flour, they’ve come up with a version of spaghetti that’s higher in fibre without


Readers Of The Recipe Swap! – for Oct. 8, 2009

You’ve been sending us such great recipes lately – would you have best pasta or pasta sauce recipes to share too? Sarah Visscher wrote to us recently saying she’d really like some PASTA SAUCE RECIPES FOR CANNING. (We expect Sarah may have the same load of homegrown tomatoes many of us are dealing with right

Recession “Cocooning” Trend Good For Durum?

The cloud of the recession may hold a silver lining for durum growers, according to a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It says all eight production lines at the New World Pasta factory in St. Louis are running full tilt, churning out 1,500 pounds of pasta an hour, 24 hours a day. “We’ve been


World Pasta Day celebrated on October 25

World Pasta Day is celebrated every October 25 in countries around the world. The theme chosen for 2008’s World Pasta day was Pasta and Children: Health for Children Around the Globe. Canada is the No. 1 exporter of durum in the world. In any given year, western Canadian durum enjoys 50 to 60 per cent