Designing your ideal eco-landscape
This is a quick and easy salad with a tasty, Asian-style dressing using sesame oil and soy sauce. I wanted to make use of the abundance of fall produce, so fennel, carrot, kale and cilantro are the featured guests. You
Sheet-mulching is a quick way to convert your lawn to usable garden space. Fall is also the best time to sheet-mulch your garden. Depending on the area being covered, this might only take 30 minutes to an hour, and you
This pasta uses one of my favourite Italian flavour combos and marks the beginning of fall- squash and sage. Because of the squash, this dish is a little bit sweet which works nicely with the mineral-rich rainbow chard, and the
At this time of year, our plants are starting to get hungry; all of the watering we do (even when it’s not a lot) can actually leach some of the nutrients from the soil, so the nutrients do require some topping-up
This Asian-inspired slaw-salad is so delicious, incredibly healthy, and uses local winter produce to boot! It can easily be made in a food processor, or by hand with a grater. Double the recipe if you would like enough for leftovers.
For those of us who like to get in the garden, you have probably found yourself, at one time or another, so deeply immersed in an activity that you’ve lost all sense of time- I love that feeling! Many gardeners
With the New Year here it’s an exciting time for everyone, despite the January blues in the Okanagan. Resolutions and goals have been made, and most of us are doing what we can, to stick to our plans for the
Morning glory muffins are simply the best type of pick-me-up muffin, but no, they do not incorporate the morning glory plant- the name is just coincidence…but perhaps they should! As a young kid who loved to bake, I would help
This biscotti recipe is one of my favourites…and it’s so flavourful that it can be enjoyed with cups of tea, hot chocolate or mulled cider…not just with coffee! As I am taking a break from teaching cooking classes, I thought
Do you need ideas for using up what seems like a never-ending supply of zucchini or patty-pan squash? If so, here is my latest recipe. In this recipe I use gluten free flour as a binder which makes the final