Reviving Traditional Foods
Baked oatmeal – a staple in our home on the weekends – nourishes our family, providing a much-loved alternative to soaked oatmeal porridge. When my father, a man who rarely enjoys a home-cooked meal, comes to visit there is, inevitably, one imperative dish on the menu: baked oatmeal – all the better when it’s dotted [...]
Mulled wine, glögg, wassail, glühwein, vin chaud, kuhano vino – all variations on essentially one ubiquitous winter beverage: a pleasantly warm, deliciously spiced, alcoholic punch. While one mulled recipe inevitable varies from another, all share one powerful commonality: warmth, a heady aroma and a robust flavor. A mulled wine recipe may seem an unlikely [...]
Elegant, nourishing and easy to prepare, slow-roasted duck with sour cherry sauce is one of those simple dishes that can speak volumes. A good, local, pasture-fed duck is a hard item to find – at least it was for us. A pasture-fed poultry operation is difficult to manage. Predation, in our area, [...]
Buckwheat porridge – rich in niacin, fiber, magnesium and manganese, can be a deeply nourishing and warming breakfast treat. Any porridge makes a fantastic breakfast provided you tolerate grains well (if you don’t, don’t worry. See these 10 reasons to go Grain-free). This buckwheat porridge recipe, like my soaked oatmeal recipe, is [...]
Fresh cream is in season (don’t think of cream as a seasonal food? check out this post For the Love of Fresh Cream), and we’re making a lot of ice cream in our home. It’s so simple to make, plus it helps me to get all those good fat soluble vitamins into my toddler’s [...]
On a Saturday morning when my Dad was visiting, I fixed brunch and whipped these sweet potato hashbrowns up on a whim. After that first taste, they have quickly become a staple for our weekend brunch. Instead of white potatoes, or even fingerling potatoes as in my Fingerling Potato & Zucchini Hashbrowns, [...]
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Jenny McGruther is a wife, mother and cooking instructor specializing in real and traditional foods. Her work has been featured on CNN, the Globe & Mail, the Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post and WebMD. Click here to learn more.
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