Elaine Watts – a Summerland super-talented artist, requested the recipe for the squash soup for which I had posted a picture on Facebook. I didn’t actually have a recipe as I make up soups as I go along, but the following will serve as a guide in the making of this delicious soup – all ingredients are local except the chicken stock and even that can be as well. Read more…
I won’t go into what these muffins do or don’t contain but what I can say is that they are really good and couldn’t be easier to make. Read more…
We served this dish at our Chardonnay blind wine tasting last month. The recipe is an adaptation of the Poached Leek and Dorset Blue Vinny Cheese tart recipe by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage in the UK. For the blue cheese we used an Upper Bench King Cole cheese. The result was a more subtle taste than you might think and even those who don’t like blue cheese thought it was superb.
This German Zwiebelkuchen is a bacon and onion tart and was one of the savoury tarts we made for the Chardonnay tasting. Very nice for those who are not vegetarian since this one has bacon.
Upon reading the first couple of pages of Edmonton and Okanagan based food writer Jennifer Cockrall-King’s book, Food and the City, I realize that my husband John’s family business was an early casualty of the self-service (no-service) grocery stores we know today or as Cockrall-King describes it, “The supermarket is really just the outlet mall for the industrial food system.” John’s family were grocers. Read more…
Kale. It is everywhere. I don’t mean it’s growing everywhere but rather it is the current superfood poster child. Like blueberries, goji berries, acai, quinoa, chia, farro, hemp hearts, pomegranates and kangaroo meat (I kid you not) before it, kale is superfood front page news.
The Salish Salad recipe was developed by Ellie van Nie for the launch of the Salish apple – a new BC apple variety released in a ceremony at the UBC Apple Festival on Oct 13 in Vancouver.
The Salish is one of the first apples to be included in PICO’s (Okanagan Plant Improvement Corporation) innovative new programs branded “Born in BC. Raised in the Okanagan”.