Category: tucking in

  • The Hot Pan of Endless Convenience

    This is not the first time I’ve brought up my mushroom grilling wonder pan on this blog, and it is unlikely to be the last. A summer of backyard grilling and open-flame cooking has done nothing short of cementing my resolve celebrate a years-long (if accidental) effort to season a chunk of generic cast iron

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  • Picture Perfect

    The nice thing about scaling back on my posting commitments for a couple months is that I’ve been able to comb through the site I’ve built this past year and tweak what’s here, refine how it’s displayed or add completely new things. Most of this is “under the hood” so to speak, but regular readers

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  • Raspberries I Have Loved

    It’s probably something to do with the unusual heat, but all my berries are coming ready about two weeks earlier than usual this year. Our fridge is already full of saskatoon berries (some of which are destined for a fate of pie later this morning) and over the last couple days I’ve spent nearly an

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  • Saskatoon Berries Bonanza

    According to thecanadianencyclopedia.ca “Saskatoon takes its name from a Cree word for the sweet, fleshy fruits, which were of prime importance to Aboriginal people and early settlers. On the prairies, saskatoons were a major ingredient in pemmican.“ In my small suburban yard, I have four saskatoon bushes, bushes that thrive as native shrubbery is wont

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  • Heat Proofed

    While the baker in me is disappointed by the negative impact the heat has had on my sourdough, the science nerd side of my brain has been giddy at watching how this blast of summer temperatures spun the dial on one of the variables in the delicate process. My fellow Western-North-Americans know this all too

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