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…
Chocolate on valentine’s day
One morning in late January I woke up with the phrase pot au feu resounding in the canyons of my mind, accompanied by tantalizing…
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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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Crowd-Sourced Christmas Breakfast
Christmas breakfast—ask someone what they eat now or ate as children on Christmas morning and the stories come tumbling out.
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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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Stepping Into Rhubarb Season
Miche Genest shares her recipes for stewed rhubarb, rhubarb parfait and ‘Pelly Button Cocktails’ just in time to step into rhubarb season.
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The Sap Is Running
On the evening of April 6, the Whitehorse Nordic Centre announced its grooming season was over, which meant that cross-country skiing on the trails at
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Orange Season
Michele brings orange season to life with creative recipes! Try candied orange peel or a traditional Dundee cake infused with Yukon flair.
Holiday Season Dessert
Looking for a unique holiday dessert? Spruce Tip Beer Spice Cake blends Yukon flavors with warm spices, perfect for your next festive gathering!
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The Seasonal Fruit Cake
Love or loathe fruitcake? Michele Genest shares a festive recipe that transforms this polarizing dessert into a must-try holiday favorite.
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Cranberry Pecan Butterscotch Brownies
October is the time to pull old cookbooks and see what can be adapted to accommodate the northern berries we so love.
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Blueberry Crumble
It’s finally fruit season and there have been tons of blueberries in the farm stands and grocery stores. A simple crumble…
Ice Cream Or Gelato?
The runners on the Millennium Trail are wearing shorts, the big sleepy mosquitoes have hatched and, today, a caterpillar…
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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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Have Your Cake and Virtue Too
April is a month of birthdays for my immediate family, most of whom are scattered in the semi-wilds of Ontario.
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Peanut Butter Fudge
Four ingredients: one-pot peanut butter fudge (chances are you’ve got everything you need to make this already in your cupboards)…
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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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Gingerbread: A Christmas Classic!
Imagine the smell of a roast coming straight out of the oven, with potato dumplings
and red cabbage to complete the dinner.
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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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Old-Fashioned Clementine Marmalade
Clementines always come in bundles, and while I always want to eat the whole thing, there are inevitably some that end up sitting…
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Life After S’mores: New Camping Dessert Options
S’mores are great, there’s no doubt about it. Melted marshmallows and creamy chocolate sandwiched between graham wafers…
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One More Rhubarb Apple Crumble Recipe
A couple of weeks ago, the oil tank guys were coming to take out our old tank and pour a cement pad for the new one.
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Apple Brown Sugar Grunt
Chances are you know someone from Atlantic Canada, you’re related to someone from Atlantic Canada, or you are from Atlantic Canada.
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A Lost Watch And The Last Of The Blueberries
Here are a couple of recipes for the last of the blueberries, with thanks to the blueberry buddies: J, N, M and, especially, G.
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Yukon Chef Goes For Top Spot On National TV
Chef Chris Irving describes his life as a chef humbly “as a job.” Irving recently competed on Top Chef Canada (on The Food Network),
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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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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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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.
Bright Flavours for Spring
Lemon yogurt cake. With the addition of tangy low-bush cranberries, this cake will provide a burst of bright flavours
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Feel good foods: Healthy Hot Chocolate?
Normally we think of hot chocolate as “junk food,” but this healthy hot chocolate recipe packs a serious health punch.
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Post Holiday Trifling Recipe
trifle—luscious, layered concoction of cake or cookies, fruit, custard, jam and whipped cream invented by the British and adored by everyone
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Parmesan and Spruce Tip Shortbreads
Ever eat from a package and think, “Huh. I could make that.” I sampled pricey Parmesan &rosemary shortbreads, I tried spruce tips instead.
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A tall glass of Christmas treat: Gingerbread protein smoothie
Christmas is coming and with it, all the gingerbread-flavoured things! Try this delicious gingerbread protein smoothie recipe.
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Buttermilk, black pepper crepes with bacon and birch syrup
Buttermilk gives the crepes a lovely, fresh, slightly sour taste that plays off the salty bacon and the slightly bitter birch syrup.
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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.
Pineapple bourbon rice pudding
Pineapple and bourbon make this simple rice pudding a bit more interesting. Try pouring additional bourbon on top of just before serving.
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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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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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A Hubbub of Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a good producer to just keep harvesting, resulting in a pile-up of chopped rhubarb in bags in the freezer. A hubbub of rhubarb!
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Wild Strawberry jam
The berry season is still months away, but a close friend gave me a small jar of jam for Christmas. And so, I made cheesecake.
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Pineapple coconut spoon cake
Spoon cake is somewhere between a crumble and an upside down cake.
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Caffeinated!
In these recipes you may use any coffee roast you like—the effect will be different with each one–but be sure to use a fine grind. The coarser stuff can be unpleasantly gritty.
Post-holiday baking projects
I’ve wanted to make savoury thumbprint cookies forever, so once the cookie tins fully emptied, I decided to give them a try.
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Freezer candy
There is a famous vegetarian restaurant in New York City called Dirt Candy. Someday I will get there, but, in the meantime, I love the
Christmas treats
I just can’t wait for Christmas to come around again and the kitchen abounds with the cooking smells of Christmas pudding.
Pancakes
I come from a time when tradition dictated that Friday was Pancake Friday. That meant we had pancakes for supper on Fridays. At the time,
Blueberry Pilgrims
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen so many berry pickers as this year in the White Pass near Fraser, B.C., southern Yukon’s favourite place to
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Currant-ly Available
Blackcurrants grow wild in the Yukon, sparsely. Find Ribes hudsoniam in damp forests at the base of mountains, like the King’s Throne hike.
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Sage Advice
I find one of the best ways to calm the spirit and focus the mind is to go out foraging. When foraging for wild plants we enter the landscape on an intimate scale, we’re down on our knees, looking, exploring, paying attention, the microcosm engages us and the macro shrinks away.
Spruce Tip Jelly
Serve spruce tip jelly on toast with butter; in thumb-print cookies; on a charcuterie platter; with smoked salmon and cream cheese; or to accompany any wild meat or fish, whether braised, grilled, roasted or fried.
Quit loafing around
Try your hand at baking bannock. All it takes is two cups of flour, less than a tsp of salt and about a tsp of baking powder.
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Coconut brown sugar rice pudding
Indulge in the simplicity of this rice pudding recipe. It is easy to make and offers a comforting taste everyone will love.
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Pumpkin recipes
Elevate your baking with fresh pumpkin recipes. These delightful ideas will transform your pumpkin treats into something special.
Weeknight crepes
Crepes make a great light dinner. They are somewhere between a ‘breakfast for dinner’ type meal and making dessert the star of the show.
For the sweet tooth
Cranberry bread I love old-fashioned toasted raisin bread, but digging into some old recipes, I came across one for cranberry bread. Checking our cupboard, the
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They’re never “just desserts”
Some kids eat their meals just to get to the desserts. I can well remember when dear old Mom would tell me to eat my
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Desserts to steal for
Like most ladies of the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s, Grandmother Sweeney and my mother grew up making home desserts you’d steal for. (If they
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There’s no cookin’ like home cookin’!
Murray’s old big stone house, back in St. Marys, Ontario, where cookies cooled on the window ledge every Saturday There is no dessert like a
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Cake recipes from the 1940s and ’50s
When you bake using basic ingredients, you know where they come from. Jump back 1/2 century and try your hand at these home-baked cakes.
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Blueberry and Saskatoon berry grunt
Grunt is a sweet fruit stew topped with fluffy dumplings, and anyone who grew up on the East Coast (or with parents from the East Coast) will immediately recognize this dessert.
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Hints about cooking from the 1950s
Back in the early days of the 1940s and ’50s we made most desserts at home. Here are some of great hints for how to enhance your home baking:
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Foil-wrapped apple cake
One of the best parts of mass-produced breads, like hotdog and burger buns, is their super-squishy, cake-like quality. That makes them a great ingredient to serve as both dinner and dessert on your camping trips.
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Banana, chocolate marshmallow dip
Admittedly, this is more of a really delicious idea than a recipe.
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Candied Blood Oranges
Citrus is everywhere this time of year. And while stuffing yourself with fresh fruit while it’s around is a solid choice, those of us who
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Vanilla Bourbon Rice Pudding
This is simple rice pudding – seasoned with vanilla and bourbon, and not on the overly sweet side.
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Ris à l’amande (Danish rice pudding)
This dessert is similar to risengrød and is offered to the nisser (gnomes) on Christmas Eve in Denmark
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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.
Apple bourbon crumble
Apple crumble is as close to a perfect food as I’ve ever found. It can be breakfast just as easily as it can be dessert or even dinner. It’s fast to prepare, and when it comes right down to it, pretty healthy.
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Homemade Treats
Having grown up in the 1930 and 40s, I was used to homemade food such as pancakes, bread and fresh-from-the-garden homemade soups. Nothing was prepared in
Oven Stewed Rhubarb with Cornmeal Biscuit Crumble
INGREDIENTS 1½ cup sugar, divided 1 Tbsp cornstarch 2 pounds frozen rhubarb ⅔ cup all-purpose flour ⅔ cup cornmeal Pinch of salt ⅓ cup coconut
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Cookies
My mother was a master cook sent down from heaven, and as she looks down upon me, I think back to the 1930 and 40s.
Muffinize Your Snack Time
Muffins are not only a treat, but a very healthy treat – especially when you bake them with fresh fruit. Here are some tasty muffin
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Honey Panna Cotta with Pineapple
Panna Cotta is a great dessert for a dinner party because it’s best when made a day in advance. Think of it as an adult pudding cup.
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Fear of Pie-ing
The circle is often used as a symbol of perfection. The delicious combination of sweet or savoury filling and flaky pastry at its best when
Bread and Butter
Here are some good bread recipes from the 1950s. Cranberry Bread 2 cups of sifted flour 1 cup sugar 1½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp
Christmas Crockpot Candy
This delicious mélange of peanuts, chocolate, and almond bark has become a family favourite. We found it on Facebook, and it looked so delicious, we
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Beet Brownies
3. Bake brownies until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out with just a few crumbs clinging to it, about 45 minutes. Allow brownies
All Tarted Up
I extracted a small tub of raspberries from the freezer yesterday, comforted to see it near overflowing with the season’s harvest. Though saskatoons and blueberries
Whisky and Cake
It’s 6 a.m. on a rainy morning just before Canada Day. In six hours I need to be ready to drive to Mayo, with three
Desserts
Apple Crisp Cake: 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1 ½ tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt 2 eggs 1 ½ cups
The Proof is in the Pudding
Ah, Christmas — the time of year when magazines abound with recipes promising taste sensations derived solely from rainbows and snowflakes. At least that’s my
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Lewis’s Scotch Tablet
Lewis’s Scotch Tablet Ingredients • Pour into a greased tin or tray with at least a two-inch lip. • Score the top in a one-inch cube
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Rhubarb
It’s in almost everybody’s garden, and it grows totally untended in abandoned homesteads and mine sites — It must be a North American plant, right?
Break Your Fast … F-A-S-T!!!
Morning is a great time for these muffins. Low in fat, high in flavour, calcium, complex carbohydrates and fibre, one of these with a glass
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Oh What a Pear!
By this time of the year in old Klondike days, food supplies were running a bit low. However, in most cabins there was flour for
Lovely Lemons and Rhubarb
That bright and beautiful time of year is finally here: the lupines are in the woods and the eagles are proudly flying overhead. So, too,
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Starting to Go Plum Crazy
That special Yukon summer time is here. Go out and pick some fresh wild raspberries to combine with ripe, red plums in this delicious summer
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Tropical Taste in a Northern Kitchen
When a prolonged winter continues cold, colder and coldest, one can counter with thoughts and tastes of the sunny South. Here is a muffin, loaded
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Tutti Fruit-ee, Go Fruit
Sometimes fresh is not always available. In early Klondike days, canned or dried fruit was the norm. Many modern-day Northerners dry fruit for lightweight hiking
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Round and Round and Round We Go
In old Klondike days, ingredients were rather limited. Lard or bacon grease was often the only fat for baking. Holy smokes, can you imagine? In
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Bittersweet Endings
While the snow is gone, and with it the skiing and snowshoeing, back come the swans, ducks, crocuses and the long-awaited spring light. One season
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Rhubarb and Strawberry Fare
Rhubarb is the earliest crop to be harvested in the Yukon and is now fresh and plentiful. Grab it from your garden or find a
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