Cooking Versus Baking
Some love to cook, some love to bake—some both. But what is the difference and what attracts people to which one?
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Gearing Up For Camp Cooking
Whether it’s car-camping, RV-ing, paddling or hiking, you can plan and execute the perfect dish while away from home. Heard of cornbread?
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Sourdough woes
Hands up, anyone who has forgotten to save a bit of sourdough starter for the next time when they’re making a batch of bread.
The Right Snack
Now that the days are getting longer, it’s easier to spend more time outside. We cover more miles on the trail…
Quick Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls
Three feet of snow, a thaw that turned streets and sidewalks into sheer ice, crazy mad news from south of the border…
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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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Blueberry Season
Miche takes us on a journey into the White Pass with her blueberry gang to find to find the best blueberries for her Blueberry Cornbread
Grasping At (Cheese) Straws
These are perfect whizzkid treat to pull out of the cupboard when someone drops by to hang out on the deck with a beverage
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Travel, Trade, and Blueberries
At home, when you bake a batch of blueberry muffins, you remember that moment, those people, and the memory is baked right in.
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Marvelous Muffins Made From Foraged Rosehips
Nature does things well … When there is no flower left in winter, the shiny red of wild fruit pops up right when they are needed.
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Fruit And Oat Crumble
Fruit and oats and whole-wheat flour will all help you towards the goal of producing a perfect poop. Use any sort of frozen fruit…
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The Many Uses Of Whey
In last month’s column I mentioned my roommate has discovered yogurt-making and the subsequent, luminous introduction…
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Bannock Again?
At our house or cabin, bannock never gets old. In a ziplock or sealed container, it keeps for days in the fridge…
Eggnog, Rum Sauce And Cheesecake!
I am chagrined. I missed our neighbour’s open house. Not only is this party the best place to catch up with friends that we only see here…
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The Cookie Solution
Earlier this year, I asked a lawyer friend for a favour: I needed help navigating the legal system for another friend…
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How To Cook a Large Zucchini
Who among us has not received a large zucchini from a neighbouring gardener, at the end of the summer? I was gifted a two-pound…
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Everyone Loves Bannock
Bannock has become a staple in our personal world. The grandkids and the dog love it, and so does the squirrel at the feeder.
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Chocolate ‘Poops’
Is it weird to lick your fingers making Chocolate poops? Use a dark high-percentage chocolate, ideally bean to bar chocolate if available.
Fibre Magic: Blueberry and Walnut Bran Muffins
There is something magic about a real bran muffin, the old-fashioned kind that our grandmothers and great-grandmothers made.
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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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Cranberry bounty
Old-fashioned jelly roll, made with cranberry jam, not jelly, and finished with whipped cream, Amaretto and toasted sliced almonds.
Seasonal Recipes: Cherry crisp
Cherries are everywhere right now, and when they’re in season, it can be easy to buy a few too many and end up with some
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Cassava flour chocolate chip cookies
Soft and chewy, like you’d expect from a classic chocolate chip cookie, but without grains, gluten and dairy. They can’t tell the difference!
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Old-fashioned breads, old-fashioned taste from the 1920s
Bread recipes from the 1920s. Home-baked bread from Grandmother was a natural thing and you always knew what the ingredients were.
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Old fashioned baked breads
If you are from the 1930s and ‘40s, you may still long for those old-fashioned baked breads of all different tastes. You will also know
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Old time treats
Back in the 1930s and 40s mom baked her own goodies and desserts. They tasted far better than the modern off-the-shelf desserts.
Say it with Biscuits
The recipe is an adaption of the original Flaky Biscuits recipe from the Tassajara Cookbook, which I have made more times than I can count.
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Spring is in the Yukon Air
What better way to welcome the return of the sun but to pack a picnic and find a slope covered with crocuses? While it may
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Raked Over the Coals
If you like to camp in comfort and enjoy a challenge, take a Dutch oven. Breads, bannock, cinnamon buns, upside-down-cake, succulent meats and baked fish
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Going Nutty North of 60
Nuts of many kinds (both the human and plant varieties) were common about town in early Klondike days. Nuts keep well, have great flavour and
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Festive Fare from Friends
Editor’s Note: Residents of Dawson City are known to enjoy a good get-together with friends, especially in the long months of winter. So we asked
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An Old School Loaf
I recently resurrected my sourdough starter from the deep freeze. I throw it in there from time to time when I feel like starving it
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