Summertime means fresh tomatoes! Finally! Tomatoes that might not look gorgeous, but certainly taste gorgeous! I love fresh tomatoes and, at this time of the year, I’m trying to save that beautiful flavour for the upcoming colder months. Canning or preserving tomatoes in various forms […]

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pecks of pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? Here is the easy answer: you can pack a pint of pickled peppers (and a little bit extra) using this quick and easy recipe. (And when […]

Figs! Figs! Figs! I have figs bursting off the trees in Italy. I’m very excited as this is my first really good fig harvest (if I can use such a word). I love figs. There’s something very luscious about them. They really are a decadent […]

My mother is a farmer’s daughter. She grew up on a farm that is just outside of the “big” town of Creemore. When we were kids and went to visit my grandparents in the summer, just before dinner time we would be asked to go to […]