Harvest Season Tarte Tatin
During harvest season every fall, Miche re-learns all of the tips and tricks to making the perfect Tarte Tatin using local apples
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Grocery Shopping / Saving Money …
Here, Larry Leigh shows us some great tips and tricks to plan out you shopping in order to maximize your time and save some money as well.
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Classic Bacon Cheeseburger
Make your own BBQ burgers from scratch and they are not only more nutritious, but way more tasty! The Unknown Chef explains how he does it.
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A Walk In The Woods
We ate nettle and wild garlic pesto on our second night in Scotland, accompanied by garlic bread (why not?) and salad. It was one of the best pestos I’ve ever had.
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BBQ Bison Ribeye Steak With Alaska Crab
Is there anything more northern than Yukon Bison paired with Alaska Crab? The Unknown Chef shares his delicious BBQ recipe this week.
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Curried Prawns Over Rice
While you can never go wrong with prawns, pairing them with a curry sauce is amazing
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Old Memories, New Dishes
Forty-five years ago, I stood in a small kitchen on a Greek island and watched an elderly man do something crazy.
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A Taste of the East Coast
East Coast Kitchen event in support of the Yukon Food Bank on May 3 The focus of the Rotary Club of Whitehorse Rendezvous is to
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Cornish Game Hens
This recipe is succulent, dazzling, easy and a treat for everyone For those of you who are unfamiliar with Cornish game hens, aka Rock Cornish
Finger-Lickin’
No more licking fingers, but still just as good as ever! Hast du keinen lӧeffel [Don’t you have a spoon]? Okay, it’s not my parents
Stuffed Chicken Breasts
These quick and tasty stuffed breasts are easy to do any night of the week When my wife and I were both working full time
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A Flavourful Countdown
Explore global New Year’s food traditions, from longevity noodles to tourtière. Angela Szymczuk shares delicious customs and their meanings.
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To Taste ‘A Perfect Summer Day’
A few months ago I had the pleasure of travelling to Québec City for a few days. While there were many highlights of the trip…
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Cold As Ice
Nestled in the Niagara region of Ontario are many vineyards that produce some of the world’s best ice wines.
The Unexpected Joys of Fishing
I never thought that I would like fishing. In fact, as with many things our minds convince us of, I went through the better part of my life certain that I was very happy having nothing to do with piscine pursuits. I didn’t particularly like eating fish and I felt no need to try to catch one. And then I fell in love with a man who loves fishing.
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The Durable (Water)Melon
The origin of watermelons date back as far as 5,000 years ago, in the deserts of South Africa. This melon had the ability to grow in drought-ridden conditions and to store water within the fruit; hence the name watermelon. It was a great food source for some ancient African tribes to have as they ventured across deserts. However, the taste was much more on the bitter side. Around 2000 BCE, the watermelon also made appearances in the burial chambers of ancient Egyptian royalty. In some of the hieroglyphics written on the walls of the burial chambers, the watermelon is depicted.
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Summer Pea And Bacon Toast
In this Summer Pea and Bacon Toast dish, it’s freshly shelled peas that are the star.
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No More Pie-In-The-Sky: Whitehorse Takes The Crown With Record-Breaking Pizza
The Yukon’s motto is “Larger Than Life. A recent collaboration between Yukon businesses Duncan’s Limited, Whiskey Jack’s Pub and Grill, Yukon Brewing and Lumel Studio put that to the test this week by building the largest pizza in the country.
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Seared Onglet Steaks With Roasted Potatoes
Onglet is the French description of a hanger steak, a lovely little tab of meat that comes from around the lower belly of a cow.
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The Bubble Life: Pretty In Pink
Rosé Prosecco was first launched on the market in 2020 and the alcoholic drink has gained popularity as a special occasion drink.
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Preserving Veggies For (Brrrh!) Winter
In the Yukon, the growing season in summer is very efficient, with almost 20 hours of daylight but winters are tough for our food gardens.
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Premier Puts His ‘Best Foot Forward’ and Makes a Little Yukon History
Who drank the 100,000th Sourtoe Cocktail? Well, now we know. The famous drink (also known as The Toe), was created by the equally famous Captain
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Raspberry Fool With Wild Chamomile Shortbreads
Nothing is assured about wild food gathering. If you find butter & whipping cream try this dessert recipe.
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Cheese Production in the Center of Old Paris
In Paris, like Klondike Valley Creamery, in the Yukon, most cheese production is not done in the big city.
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Rabbit Ragu With Bucatini
Rabbit (Ragu) has mild white meat but it has a bit more of a robust and meaty flavour than average grocery-store chicken.
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Time to Celebrate: Birch Syrup Season is Done
Shift from birch sap for syrup, to sap for beer. “Oh yeah, beer concentrate is fun and easy, relative to syrup, and the vibe is all beer,”
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Fermentation: ‘Little Living Things’ in Our Food
Fermenting is transforming a food, usually in the absence of oxygen. Several types of fermentation exist: ethanol, acetic &lactic acid.
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Prosecco: Exploring Bevies That Sparkle
“I may not speak Italian, but I am fluent in prosecco,”. But where did this lovely fruity drink originate from
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Whitehorse Brunch Roundup
When planning a Mother’s Day outing in Whitehorse, once thing is certain: There are a “brunch” of options. We feature 3.
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When Gatherers Become Gardeners
Mid-winter Potato, Kale and Cheddar Pie. A hearty, cheesy, main course that only needs a side salad for a satisfying mid-winter meal.
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Haines, Alaska: Food scene still vibrant even during a pandemic
A trip to Haines reveals things have been far from quiet in the small town of 2,500. The food and beverage scene is thriving.
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Taking (laughing)stock of the best of the Naramata Bench
The scenic Naramata Road passes a selection of my favourite vineyards. Our destination this day was Laughing Stock Vineyards.
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Craving Crepes? Crêperie La Petite-Maison brings French food to Yukoners
Crêperie La Petite-Maison brings French food to Yukoners. Morin & Veniatare passionate & Yukoners are crazy about their crêpes.
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Nose to tail : Don’t overlook the offal when meal-planning this winter
Offal —literally “off-fall”— refers to those parts of an animal carcass that have fallen off during butchering. While muscles represent more than a third of
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Infinite flavours of Asia: Yukon Asian Market
If a customer asks for something, she’ll try to find it for them and the selection is impressive. There are products from many countries.
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Old Gardeners Never Die, They Just Go to Seed
Fall is the time when seeds are able to be gathered and stored. And a seed exchange is the perfect place to share some of those seeds.
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Hot Eats Cool Beats: new family fun street eats festival
An expansion of the Street Eats Festival this year’s festival offers food trucks, live music, art installations and a historical tasting tour.
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Business Profile: Half Moon Ice Cream
with a supportive community, this ice cream maker has been able to stick it out in 2021, and even return with some impressive upgrades.
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Peanut butter banana oat smoothie recipe
This peanut butter banana oat smoothie is a fast and nutritious snack or breakfast. It is high in calories, protein and fat so it won’t leave you feeling hungry soon after. It is also gluten-free, dairy-free/vegan and soy-free.
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Jeszika Mae’s Joy of Cooking
Macarons represent the bonbons side of Jeszika Mae’s business slogan: “Bacon and Bonbons – smoked meats and sweet treats.”
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Foraging in local markets for cheese pie makings
A forage around town in supermarkets and small shops for local and locally available foodstuffs to bring home and play with
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A cheesy business plan
Jill Johnstone turned to cheese-making for her scientific outlet. Let her show you through a 12 week training program.
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Yummy dumplings
Anne’s Dumplings took off in the last year. Anne Huang-Power can’t keep up with the demand for her dumplings.
Providing Provisions
Yukon Provisions is a new collaborative space for local food entrepreneurs
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Pour one out during the pandemic
Almost a year into this pandemic, we’re all dreaming about travelling again. Last summer, during the B.C. bubble, my wife and I took a road trip to explore Okanagan vineyards.
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Bringing BBQ to the masses
Smoke and Sow, from food truck to Whitehorse restaurant. The menu includes beef brisket, pulled pork, racks of ribs and whole chickens.
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Brothers in beer
Polarity Brewing, the latest addition to the Yukon craft beer scene, is a labour of love.
Fruits of the wine
You may have heard, we have a winery in the Yukon now. This winery comes from the team at Yukon Berry Farms. They were looking for a way to use their haskap berries to create secondary products that have a long shelf life and good margins – fruit wine.
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Chill, it’s summer
Yukon-brewed beers for the season from Yukon Brewing, Winterlong Brewery, and Woodcutter’s Blanket.
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Locally-produced beers for your socially-distanced summer chill
Yukon Brewing will appeal to IPA-warriors who like their hops with a moderate citrus tang.
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Putting delicious food into the hands of Yukoners
Wayfarer Oyster House provides takeout and off-sales during the time of COVID-19 COVID-19 has dramatically changed things for Yukon’s restaurant community, including Wayfarer Oyster House.
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Cooking up some good
The Yukon Chef Collective is a group of local culinary professionals giving back by creating meals for the Whitehorse Food Bank
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Pho-fix
Making sure Yukoners can still get their pho-fix is not the only way Lan Tang, owner of Pho 5 Star Restaurant, is contributing during the pandemic.
Stock your freezers
Antoinette’s Restaurant decided they would work through the pandemic by providing their fellow Yukoners with frozen meals so they could stock their freezers and enjoy the dishes when they wanted.
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Great Thumbs, Great Ideas
With the circumstances of the COVID-19 lock down, many are thinking about a garden this year, perhaps, for the first time in their lives.
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Support local with a beer and some Indian food
Things are different for everyone in the new COVID-19 world and companies everywhere are having to change their business models to adapt. Nowhere is this
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Quarantinis: Or, When Life Gives You Lemons
I recently challenged myself to publish a cocktail recipe every day, for 14 days, I had to use spirits I already had at home.
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Bringing the world of the culinary arts to Yukoners
For every Yukoner who has ever felt intimidated by a new recipe or technique in the kitchen Chef Catherine (Cat) McInroy is here to help. She is the owner/operator of the only privately-owned culinary education centre in the Canadian North.
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Meals inspired by literature
Many classic stories have food and drinks intrinsically linked to their narratives. The Whitehorse Public Library has taken this idea and run with it, creating Page to Plate – a series of workshops for youth linking literature and cooking.
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Love your liver
How I learned to do it Why would I ask you to do such a thing? Because your liver rocks and, according to Anthony William,
So cheesy
Cultured Fine Cheese has become a specialty shop that offers the necessary ingredients for a fabulous meal and the perfect snack.
Skills Canada Yukon Interview: Bell Laosomboon
Growing up in Thailand gives someone an appreciation for food. Like in any culture that is food-centered, you learn from an early age to appreciate the composition of various dishes.
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Eight different ways to experience rice wine
“When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.” This quote was made famous by spiritual teacher,
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My favourite Johnnie Johns hunting story
A favorite story by Johnnie Johns pf being trapped inside a moose and nearly freezing to death, told often at the Caribou Hotel in Caccross.
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A pearl formed in these oysters
Even after a year of operating in downtown Whitehorse, Eddie Rideout, co-owner of Wayfarer Oyster House, stresses that his restaurant does more than just oysters.
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Four days full of food and family fun
Eating, cooking and learning about homegrown products The Yukon Culinary Festival will show that the territory has a lot to offer when it comes to
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Celebrate Local Food – July 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winners are… Chris Potvin & Sara Nielsen The couple tried out Dennis Zimmerman’s recipe p.148 in The Boreal Gourmet, our
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Tinfoil and the barbeque
Tinfoil, as it’s commonly called, is actually aluminum foil. While it’s not essential, it is a boon to the fine art of barbequing. One of
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Forgotten meals
Here are some old and mostly forgotten meals that still linger on my taste buds and I, once again, long to dig into the good
A real Canadian pancake breakfast
First of all, let’s return to the 1930s and make our pancakes in a real heavy iron pan. The pan is ready for the mixture
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Atlin coffee is burning up the market
Having a wood-fired coffee roaster is more than just a gimmick—it’s good business sense for Philippe and Leandra Brient, co-owners of Atlin Mountain Coffee Roasters.
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Raise your glass
Since launching Yukon Brewing, Alan Hansen and Bob Baxter have proven that they know their beer. With the success of Two Brewers whisky over the
Skagway Brewing Company expands
Whether you’re visiting Skagway by boat or by highway from Whitehorse, a visit isn’t complete unless you’ve tried the local beer. Healy was born and
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KD, rice and Pilot Biscuits
If you have a big budget and a small appetite, freeze-dried meals will work to keep you healthy on the trail. I have always found
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Five camping food hacks to get you through the rest of your summer
Over the past couple months I’ve stumbled across a couple of really great hacks that make creating awesome meals while camping way easier.
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Move over Willy Wonka, the Yukon’s got our own chocolate factory
What’s Up Yukon’s weekly recipe developer, Sydney Oland, has undertaken a new venture, the Yukon Chocolate Company. The new business leverages her eight years of experience in the chocolate-making industry to offer chocolate made fresh from cacao beans.
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In search of the perfect poutine
Poutine. This simple, but tasty dish, was officially put in the dictionary in 2014 and listed in the top 10 Canadian inventions of all time.
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In search of the perfect poutine
Is it possible to find good poutine in Whitehorse – even though we’re the farthest you can possibly get from Quebec?
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Chicken fried bison steaks
While I love using bison steaks, you can totally use any sort of lean, quick cooking steak you’ve got – moose, caribou, even beef.
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Go Big, Jack
Big Bear Donair shares a parking lot with the old Salvation Army and wouldn’t be the first location many would look to for a new business venture.
What can we do with all this burger?
Ground meat is certainly one of the results of just about any successful hunt and this includes birds. With a little thought, there are a
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A wild and wonderful night
This weekend the Yukon Fish and Game Association (YFGA) is hosting their annual Wild Game Banquet at the High Country Inn. The event will include
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BonTon Butcherie & Charcuterie
When Shelby Jordan was looking to change her career, she came across an idea that piqued her interest. “I’ve always wanted to learn a trade.
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Fermented, Stewed, Baked and Brewed!
While that cornbread didn’t end up in a gallery, it did inspire did inspire the food oriented event called The Ingestible Festival
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So Good, So Try It
The Yukon Culinary Festival sounds like a good way to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary. “The definition of Canadian cuisine that we use is local, seasonal,
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Do the Berry
Cranberries are just one of many berries that you can add to regular recipes for some extra health benefits. But since we are in the
Five Years Later and Still Garlic A GoGo-ing
If Louis Gagnon has learned anything from five years of successfully running a food truck in the Yukon, it’s “Batten down the hatches!” Gagnon says
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Fresh Fast Food
Culinary queen and DIY entrepreneur Katie Thom might be flying by the seat of her pants, but when she sets her mind on something, she
Don’t Cook Big Game Meats as You Would Domestic Meats
I got my real initiation in cooking wild meats when I first joined the Orillia Fish and Game Conservation Club, in Ontario. We had about
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Heart Healthy Hot Dogs
Fried, boiled, barbecued or campfire roasted, there’s nothing more quintessentially “summer” than a classic hotdog, especially paired with white bun, French’s mustard, ketchup and relish.
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Why You Should Be Carving your Hot Dogs
Hot dog carving is my latest passion project. This past weekend I became the general of my own army comprised of perfectly seared men and
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Celebrating Sausages
The Germans are known by the nickname “The Krauts,” which comes from sauerkraut, a famous German dish comprised of fermented cabbage. Maybe Germans should be
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O – Delicious Oishi Sushi
Oishi Sushi is a small lunch counter located on the second floor above Shoppers Drug Mart on Main Street. It’s truly a hidden gem. Oishi
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N – North Dragon Restaurant
We needed to find a place to go for lunch that started with the letter “N”. Well, we needed look no further than the North
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M – Making New Memories in a Spot with History
We went for dinner at Miner’s Daughter, which is in the historic Capital Hotel building and I imagine, if the walls could talk, we’d all
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What’s the Appeal?
I was making a carrot cake this week for one of the Jack Russell’s birthdays (he gets the carrot ends, we get the cake, seems
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A Swiss Tradition in the North
Of course, you have noticed that many people from Switzerland visit the Yukon in summer. Did you ever ask yourself what they do in wintertime?
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Color Me Blue
It struck me a couple days ago that I have gotten out of the habit of baking, and was missing having nibbly bites about for