You’re sure of a big surprise. At least that’s what the lyrics to the Teddy Bear’s Picnic promises. And that’s also what the 2013 season of Savour Winnipeg’s Fantastic Forest ...
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Recipe: Burdock and Dandelion Syrup
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Skillet Style Bannock Bread
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Scotch Tasting
Beaujena’s is well-known for their exquisite wine pairings and un-published menus. Now they’re flipping everything on its end with the announcement of a November 14 Scotch Tasting evening with the following menu: Blue cheese and mushroom crostini – just the thing to get your taste buds fired up. Quinoa aranchini – perhaps a bit Italian [...]
Calendar with a Conscience
Who can say no to that face? I love and respect the forest. And I love good food, foraged or otherwise. The 2013 CPAWS wilderness calendar, now on sale, combines two of my favourite things. CPAWS is a non profit organization working toward boreal forest conservation here in the province. Each year as a fundraising [...]
Recipe: Acorn Flour
Our Fantastic Foraged Fare for September is the Acorn. Long prized by leather workers for the concentrated tannins that give hides that characteristic brown finish, with proper preparation they can be a tasty and versatile wild edible. While they can be processed into oil, starch based jellies, or a crude coffee substitute, they’re most often [...]
Grazing the Field
Chef Ben Kramer is a well-known advocate of locavore dining. You could say he’s a man outstanding in his field, and now, you can say it literally. Well, it’s not his field, it’s that of the Hueging Family’s Dairy Farm who are hosting a unique foodie experience in which the Diversity Food Services chef serves up a [...]
Brewsky Tuesday: Phil’s Pils
Well summer’s certainly at its peak, and if you’re going to beat the heat, there’s no better antidote than nice cold beer. I bounce around between IPAs, Wheat Beers (Hefeweizen) and Pilsners. Ever a lover of local fare, enter Half Pints Brewing with Phil’s Pils. Phil’s a real fellow. A real character, and a friend [...]
Wine Wednesday: Ladybug Rosé
Malivoire Ladybug Rosé Niagara’s Malivoire Wine Company produces a number of excellent wines. The whites I’ve tried have been good, but are a little richer and more suited for cooler weather. But their “Ladybug” Rosé is perfect for one of those hot Winnipeg summer evenings. It’s a very Canadian blend of Cabernet Franc, Gamay and [...]
Fantastic Foraged Fare: Burdock Root
It’s the inspiration for Velcro, an Asian super ingredient, and it grows abundantly in Winnipeg. Burdock is this month’s featured Fantastic Foraged Fare. You might recognize the flowers of Burdock more when they turn brown and dry and harden. Better known as burrs, these annoying hitch hikers were the inspiration for a transformational technology. While [...]
Burn Baby Burn
Smoke billows, flames lick through the understory, and what was moments earlier familiar and safe is vaporized, changed, blackened. The recent, if brief, blaze in Assiniboine Forest on Thursday, April 26 brought the spectre of forest fires dangerously close to home. It’s natural to react with fear. We’ve been taught that forest fires are agents [...]
Storming the Fort
There’s a world of wine out there beyond the basic (ahem) take grapes add yeast formula. That’s the world of fortified wine. What is a fortified wine? You’ve no doubt heard of them primarily in the names port and sherry. What’s this fortified business? Fortified wines are wines that have had a distilled spirit (usually [...]
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erin: am making this on Sunday! will let you know how it...
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