Recipes

Holiday baking just got a little bit more exciting!  It’s time to don your aprons because gourmet flavoured sugars are gorgeous, useful, and…

Winter is the time of mulled spices and warming comfort, and masala chai offers all of that!  For centuries we have celebrated and…

Digestive bitters are ancient medicinal herbal extracts, used through the ages to treat digestive ailments and flavor alcohol. Bitters are made from a…

Decadent, bold and oozing with comfort, this bread is sinfully good. My husband has been dreaming about a certain cheese bread experience that…

A beautiful basket of home-made jams, jellies and preserves  is a practical and thoughtful holiday gift. Here’s our ‘How-To Guide for Gifting Jams,…

We cook exclusively with cast iron these days.  There is cast iron and then there’s everything else. A good cast iron pan is…

It’s that time of year and I’ve got an itchy scratchy throat and sniffles. I decided to gather rose hips from the garden…

Homemade extracts are such enjoyable and beneficial concoctions to have in your kitchen. They add complex flavours to drinks, desserts and savoury recipes…

There’s nothing like a good caesar. Substantial, unique, and with huge presence, it’s a Canadian classic. For those who drink them, a good…

Using food for both nourishment and medicinal purposes is at the heart of our life on this homestead. We enjoy taking control of…