Web Chef Review: Ontario Savoy Cabbage at Harvest Barn Country Markets
Take a look at this beautiful specimen of Ontario Savoy Cabbage from Harvest Barn Country Markets. It is in perfect condition with nice, green, shiny leaves. It’s heavy, crispy, fresh and ready to use. There are no ugly outer leaves with holes in them that need to be discarded. so I can use every bit of this cabbage for my recipes. As usual, I am satisfied that whatever I cook with this cabbage from Harvest Barn Country Market,...
Web Chef Review: Ontario Cantaloupe at Harvest Barn Country Markets
This is what I say about Ontario Cantaloupe at Harvest Barn Country Markets. Just take a look at this lovely specimen of an Ontario cantaloupe. According to my Mom, the cantaloupe should be somewhat spongy at the stem area and pleasantly golden with a delicious, musky aroma. When you cut into the cantaloupe, see how gloriously golden and juicy it is. We try to keep cantaloupe on hand during the summer months, when you can get these...
Web Chef Review: Organic Wheat Grass Living Greens by Sprouts for Life
This is what I say about Organic Wheat Grass Living Greens by Sprouts for Life. These beautiful greens are generally available in the produce section at your local supermarket or grocers. When purchased, this organic wheat grass comes in a sturdy, white pot filled with fine organic soil, contained in an open plastic bag that protects the grass. The sprouted wheat berries are on top, showing several days of growth, depending on how...
Web Chef Review: Harvest Barn Local Niagara Rhubarb
If you love this fruit, you’ll have to pick up some Harvest Barn Country Markets Local Niagara Rhubarb! Aside from the fact that we are able to get the freshest, tastiest rhubarb from our Niagara-on-the-Lake Harvest Barn Country Market, the rhubarb we got there was at its optimum point of ripeness. These bunches were perfect for cooking as in stewed rhubarb, rhubarb pie, rhubarb tarts, rhubarb fritters and we kind of enjoy it...
Web Chef Review: Harvest Barn Country Markets Ontario Kale
I picked up some fresh Harvest Barn Country Markets Ontario Kale this week for some great recipes. When I am looking for kale for a particular recipe, I look for the best, high quality, fresh Kale I can find, and I am always assured to find just that at my local Harvest Barn Country Market in Niagara on the Lake, where they provide their customers with as much produce as they can obtain within a 100 mile area. I am never disappointed...
How to Cook Purple Pole Beans + Video
Purple Pole Beans are some of the most beautiful beans I have ever seen, especially when you actually see them growing on the plant as I have when I harvested them from my Summer garden. Pretty & prolific! The plant is positively loaded with these tasty beans. They yield a great harvest and you can enjoy them all summer fresh from the garden. How to Cook Purple Pole Beans: When they are cooked, they turn green but they are fat,...
A Celebration of Peppers: National Pepper Month
It is November, and National Pepper Month has finally arrived. We have written about peppers in our quest for various pepper dishes & found they are a most popular vegetable, included in many of the most familiar ethnic dishes. The terms pepper & chili are used interchangeably, both being vegetables. Amazingly full of vitamins, peppers are vibrantly colored, add texture, and sometimes heat to dishes. Store unwashed & in...
Eating with Your Senses: Good Nutrition Month
November is Good Nutrition Month, and maintaining a healthy diet & lifestyle is essential to being in good health. We hear so much about nutrition and how important good nutrition is to the state of our health. We are organisms, which require large amounts of a variety of vitamins, minerals, fats, vegetables, fruits, grain, etc. to feed and maintain our bodies in a healthy condition. We eat to meet those needs, but also because we...
How to Cook Stewed Prunes
Stewed Prunes are an old, classic fruit stew, and most think it to be for “old people,” but the fact remains, it’s tasty! Yes, it’s a known fact that prunes, well, make you regular, if you catch my drift. However, they are chock full of vitamins, minerals & even protein. A healthy snack that’s ever-so-tasty made this way…stewed. How to Cook Stewed Prunes: We are quite fond of stewed prunes in...
Cooking: Did it Make Us Human?
I just watched a most interesting BBC documentary called “Did Cooking Make Us Human?” This documentary had great information on food, how we used to eat it, and how we evolved due to us learning to use fire and cook our food. Fire allowed us to become predator and not prey. As well, in turn, cooking the food with fire allowed us to get more nutrients out of our foods. This allows our bodies to use less energy digesting raw...
How to Cook Asparagus in a Bamboo Steamer + Video
Cooking in bamboo steamers is not only a healthy way to cook, but it’s fast & easy too. From vegetables for side dishes, all the way to chicken & fish, and even surprises like steamed cupcakes… Steaming helps you save calories, as well as keeping the nutrients in the foods you steam, as they are not leaching vitamins & minerals out into boiling water, as when you boil vegetables. Then, you pour out the cooking...
Great Chickens Come From Springer Mountain Farms
Where the heck is Springer Mountain? Well, nestled into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Chattahoochee National Forest in Fannin County, northern Georgia, stands a chicken farm, full of pride, heritage, tradition & experience…Springer Mountain Farms. They are family owned, raising chickens for over 40 years, not to mention these third generation families contribute hundreds of years of wisdom to raising the finest chicken on the...
How to Use Apple Tea in Your Health & Beauty Regimen
Have you had your apple today? Keeps the doctor away, right? Certainly, we all know that this fruit is one jam-packed with healthy goodness. Also, it is one of the most widely consumed fruits in the world, as it grows well in many climates. From the celebrity to the average person, apples have been benefiting overall health & strengthening of the immune system, as well as for beauty & skin care alike, especially in Apple...
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