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Kitchen Quick Tips - Storing Salad Greens

Moisture will cause salad greens to wilt. Place a paper towel in the bottom of a bowl then the salad greens and cover with plastic wrap to ...

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Garlic Roast Beef with Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Home Canned Green Beans

Garlic has been richly entrenched in folklore for warding off vampires. This likely stemmed from the practice of wearing garlic around the ...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Storing Potatoes

Store potatoes in a dark, cool location away from onions that will cause potatoes to spoil but near apples that will prevent the potatoes fr...

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Homemade Shake & Bake Chicken with Steamed Asparagus and Pierogi (Polish Dumplings)

The last part of winter hung on and the cold weather really hasn't let go. So far, it has been a cold, damp spring with snow still in ...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Storing Fresh Asparagus

Store asparagus cut end down in a glass with a little water in the refrigerator to keep it fresh longer.

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A Few Easter Goodies

One thing is always for certain whenever we get together as a family and that is an abundance of good food! Last Saturday was no different ...

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Steamed Brussels Sprouts

Brussels sprouts is a cultivar in the Gemmifera group of cabbages (Brassica oleracea) that is grown for its edible buds. The small, leafy ...

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Irish Tater Tots

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Have you ever had two similar dishes then meshed them together? Well, that is what happened today. We like t...

11:53 AM Add Comment frugal meals, gluten free, vegetables Edit

Steamed Spaghetti Squash

Beta-carotenes are the strongly coloured red-orange pigments found in fruits and vegetables, the dietary source of provitamin A that convert...

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Scalloped Potatoes

We live in beautiful Ontario, Canada where the winter days can be somewhat blustery, grey and cold. On the flip side, there can be a blanke...

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Crab & Eggplant Napoleon from Harry's Seafood & Grille in Lakeland, Florida

From our home to yours we wish you a very Happy New Year. May your pantries be overflowing and your table always filled with a wondrous ass...

5:31 AM Add Comment Ontario produce, produce, vegetables Edit

Easy Way to Cook Acorn Squash

As newly-weds my husband would not eat sweet peas, squash or eggplant but he loved rutabaga. I, on the other hand would eat any vegetable,...

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Roasted Beets

I recently posted about a few great deals I got on Ontario produce only a day after returning home from our fall vacation. No Frills had 1...

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Pickled Beets

Beets are one of my favourite vegetables. Not only are they quite inexpensive, they are a powerhouse when it comes to nutrition. They deto...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Stuffing Peppers

An easy, no muss way to stuff peppers is to stand the prepared pepper in a drinking glass or measuring cup. This will keep the pepper uprig...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Green vs Wax Beans

Green and wax beans can be used interchangeably. Wax beans lack chlorophyll but taste very close to green beans and since they have less co...

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Starting Tomatoes

Tomatoes started about two weeks earlier this year. Now, everyone who knows me knows I will be in the kitchen almost non-stop during tomato...

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Freezing Corn and Corn Stock

I picked up another five dozen ears of corn from the only local farmer close to use selling yellow corn. Despite the adverse weather condit...

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Five Dozen Ears of Corn

'Tis the midst of the busier home canning season with the busiest tomato season just around the corner. Last week, the canners ran a co...

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Kitchen Quick Tips - Dehydrating Vegetables

Most vegetables must be blanched before dehydrating to slow the enzyme action that promotes spoiling during drying and storage. The excepti...