Everyone should have a friend like my friend Marianne. I ran into her at the coffee shop and told her I was going home to “do my tomatoes”. She asked if “the job” could wait a day because she’d be able to help if it could. You already know the answer to that question. I won’t trifle […]
MoreToday is a special day for me because I’m going to be “guest chef” for Soup Sisters. I’ll help organize 24 people to make four kinds of soup. We also package and label it for delivery to The Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter. The soups we make today will serve as the lunch program for the […]
MoreThis is the third time we’ve done this particular City Palate farm Tootle tour and it always resonates with people. They start out curious about where the food for their Canadian Thanksgiving dinner is coming from and they end up grateful to our local farmers for all that goes into growing their food. This year […]
MoreSaturday, August 20th was a big Alberta blue sky day with not a breath of wind to disturb it. A perfect day to take a bus load of city folk out to meet farm folk. Our first stop was http://www.aspencrossing.com where owners Donna Biggar and Jason Thornhill showed us their Pullman Dining Car, kitchen garden, […]
MoreI’m going to dedicate this post to longtime clients Candy and Lucia who love to go on my farm tours and who love to garden and cook. I recently ran into them at Slow Food Calgary’s Feast of Fields and learned that due to a very slow start to our high altitude summer they have […]
MoreTootling according to Webster’s dictionary refers to the practice of “proceeding in a leisurely way”. City Palate magazine has sponsored “Foodie Tootles” to local farms around Calgary for 13 years. I used to help my friend Dee Hobsbawn-Smith run these and last year when she moved to Saskatchewan I took on the task of keeping […]
MoreHere’s an article I wrote for IMPACT magazine online a few years ago. I’m sharing it now because I am currently training for my first Olympic distance triathlon. I’m doing the Peach City Tri in Penticton on July 17, 2011. I am really looking forward to it but that has been a real journey from […]
MoreAngel things By Karen Anderson Because of Ryan (March 18 – 20, 1996) Originally posted in 2011. Updated March, 2014 – because he would have been 18 on the 18th of this year. A golden birthday…not forgotten. My son is an angel. I knew it the second I laid eyes on him. His energy was […]
MoreGuinea Fowl with Hazelnuts Whenever I am in Paris I spend a day with my friends at Succulent Paris because they live up to their name and I care for that. Notes to the cook This is a medieval recipe recovered by a food historian friend of my friends Aurélie Mahoudeau and Marion Willard who […]
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