With global food logistics and the expansion of greenhouses in shorter harvest growing regions making it so much easier to have fresh produce year-round, it’s not too difficult for most consumers to acquire, say, bananas or citrus fruit in February. But there’s something to be said for a fresh, locally-grown, juicy and flavourful garden harvest,…
Tag: stew
Recipe Post: Hearty Vegetable Stew and Dumplings
This recipe is an improvement on a recipe I published several years ago in my post, “Winter Warmth in Stew Form“. With those of us in the Northern hemisphere firmly in winter’s grasp once again, I felt it was time to bring this recipe back out and see what changes I could make to it….
Recipe Post: Slow Loris Chili Con Carne…erm, I mean “Slow Cooker…”!
Sadly, the warm days of summer are a distant memory in this part of the world, but the one good thing about cold, snowy, drizzly, wintery weather is that hearty warming soups, stews, and chili come back in rotation at the dinner table! This bright, colourful chili con carne recipe is simple enough, but delicious…
Recipe post: Winter Warmth in Stew Form
I don’t know from which city or country you are reading this, but here, lately it’s been VERY cold. As in, -17C with wind chills of almost double that. Snowstorms and ice storms and public warming centres for the homeless or those without power; where whiteouts and zero visibility and multi-vehicle traffic accidents abound. You…
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