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A box of granola at the grocery store can be a landmine of sugar, hydrogenated fats and a bucketful of questionable ingredients. But a run to Bulk Barn for nuts and other healthier ingredients can run up your weekly food expenses. Enter this unsung ingredient: Buckwheat Grouts! What you say? Buckwheat grouts? Buckwheat grouts are the hulled, nutrient-rich seeds of the buckwheat plant. Gluten-free and a member of the rhubarb plant group, this is a great, inexpensive addition to a sprouted granola. Sprouting buckwheat groats increases the absorption of vitamins, iron, zinc and magnesium PLUS grouts offer a complete

Lemons are fresh & tart-they can be found in anything from a refreshing drink to dessert. I had never encountered a preserved lemon until cooking school when we tackled a chicken tagine. Preserved lemons have a decidedly lemon umami flavour and add a fermented quality that a regular lemon simply cannot add.  I have never been to Morocco, but I have become obsessed  with them ever since. Preserved lemons were preserved for the same reason all things are preserved — to store and eat them past their season. To preserve lemons, you simply cut the top and bottom of

There are many things that are magic in the kitchen. Curing salmon is one of those things. Salt, sugar and time do their magic and raw salmon turns into this wonderful gravlax! First things; your salmon must be fresh. Like super fresh. I like to use a small whole skinless side of Atlantic salmon. You can ask your fish monger to remove the skin for you. If this isn’t an option, don’t worry - taking the skin off isn’t mandatory but I can show you in a quick video how to do it.  Here are the simple steps: Lay

An Ice Cream maker is the Perfect ‘support tool’ at our cottage. You see, in addition to the inconvenience of being 20 minutes from the nearest town, there is the added 20-minute transfer from car to boat to cottage freezer transfer. Combined, most containers of store-bought ice cream turns into a soft puddle. An ice cream maker also allows you to showcase the summer’s bounty or in this case, using up things at the cottage like overripe bananas. I have a Cuisinart Ice Cream maker. It is a relatively inexpensive and reliable option that I recommend. I suggest keeping

There is nothing better than a Farmers market. Fresh corn, peas still in their pods, tomatoe’s with their intoxicating summer perfume! We have a small market just down the street at Davisville Ave in June Rowlands Park on Tuesday afternoon at 3pm. and a larger one west of me at 125 Burnaby Ave, Sunday @ 8am. Both are fabulous. Whenever I go to a new farmers market, I usually do a “scope out run” to get an idea of what the vendors have on offer today. I try to go early so I can get the “best of the

When I was growing up and we were running low on groceries, my mom would have to get creative. We often had tuna melts. Let’s look back to my childhood. It was a time when my Mom stayed home with the kids and my Dad went to work.  Some families had more, some had less. Nobody seemed to care much. We can have a little segway here about the olden days here and patriarchal systems that I lived in but…I am here to talk tuna. Canned tuna. Let’s get back to the story! I loved tuna melts. They consisted