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It's a hot day. You want to keep the house cool and not have to turn on the oven to put a meal on the table. Or perhaps everyone else in the family is outside soaking up the sun, and you want to be o…

If you love asparagus, take full advantage of the local Ontario variety while it's in season. In my last post I shared an Impossibly Easy Ham and Asparagus Pie. Here are a couple more asparagus and …

Along with maple syrup, fiddleheads and dandelions, asparagus says shouts spring! The slender green stalks with their tightly closed tips are a welcome sight at this time of year, and they signal the…

So many people think making a soufflé is difficult. This recipe for Cheese Soufflé, from Belwood, Ontario egg farmers Bryan and Cathy Hostrawser, will dispel that myth! Cheese Souffle I'll admi…

A few weeks ago I visited Kraft Canada's head office in Toronto as a guest speaker in Kraft Kitchen's series of lunch hour cooking classes for their employees. The class I was attending was appropria…

Paska - Easter bread! This Easter bread known as Paska was a tradition in my Mennonite family when I was growing up. Made with flour, yeast, sugar, eggs, milk, and citrus rind and juice, then co…

Here in Ontario the maple syrup crop has been harvested for another year. Swweeeet! I was lucky to be given a bottle of maple syrup by a neighbour who has family with maple trees on their property. I…