“Cooking as an art — ‘Hidden Art’, if you want to call it so – should be recognized and then developed in everyone who has to cook, wants to cook or could cook! Cooking should not be thought of as a drudgery but as an art. The danger today.. […]
Category Archives: For the Pantry
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.” ~ Proverbs 6:6-8 In recent weeks, I have been asked quite a few questions about pressure canning. I suppose this past year […]
“Rose hips glow like rubies in the fading colors of autumn.” -Wild Foods and Medicines A few years ago, with hopes of a flourishing rose bush or two, I planted some tender rose saplings in my front garden. Sadly, they did not make it through our Canadian winter. Determined to try again the following […]
This week in our garden, we have an amazing amount of cabbage, carrots and tomatoes. We also have onions on hand – not to mention turkey sausages which my husband bought on sale at the market last week. This adds up to a lovely soup, if you ask me. If you are […]
‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.‘ Jeremiah 29:5 Bent low, my fingers searched the leafy green bean plant for the fruit of our labour… my young son, only 4, was helping me pick beans that morning. “Don’t waste any beans – find them all,” I told him, encouragingly. […]