Ingredient Info & How-To Guides
Elevate Your Culinary Creations with California Prunes
Looking to enhance the flavour profile of your recipes with the added benefit of vitamins and nutrients? Look no further than California Prunes. With their subtle sweetness and nutritional benefits, prunes are a versatile ingredient that can take your recipes, whether sweet of savoury, to the next level. Packed with…
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Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir
Excerpt from Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir, by Margot Fedoruk, Heritage House Follow Margot on IG / FB / Twitter “The night I ran over Rick with my car, I was over four months pregnant with our first daughter. I remember crouching at his side, knees…
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Canadian Food Focus Celebrates Indigenous Ingredients and Recipes
Indigenous communities have a deep understanding of food harvesting, farming, hunting, and fishing practices that have sustained their health and well-being for generations. Traditional diets consist of foods found in the natural environment, including wild game, fish, and edible plants. Embracing these traditional foods connects Indigenous people to their cultural…
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Enjoy fresh, local Ontario produce this June!
June 5th-9th is Local Food Week, a time to enjoy fresh food grown, produced and processed in Ontario! Did you know that when you buy eggs in the grocery store, you are purchasing them from one of Ontario’s 500 egg farm families? These farm families work to supply fresh eggs…
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Spring into new recipe ideas with Egg Farmers of Ontario
With just a little under a month to go until spring is officially here, it’s time for a celebration! Spring is a time to celebrate surviving winter’s harsh weather and to look towards the summer ahead. Whether you choose to bring in the spring by sticking to your New Year’s…
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How to Perfectly Poach an Egg
As the temperatures in February continue to dip below the freezing mark, why not warm yourself up with a healthy, nutritious soup option. Have you heard about our Poached Egg Soup recipe? This light, ginger-scented broth compliments the delicately poached eggs perfectly. A great first course or easy weeknight meal!…
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Reasons to Love Canadian Canola Oil
There are so many reasons to love using Canada’s cooking oil, canola, and make it your choice oil in your kitchen. Here are our top 5 reasons to love canola oil: Proudly Canadian No matter the brand, no matter what size bottle, at any grocery store, when you choose canola…
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Baking with Canola Oil
Canola oil is a great choice to use in place of solid fats for baking, especially for cakes or muffins. Substituting canola oil reduces the amount of saturated fat compared to using solid fats like butter, shortening and lard. The best part is, no softening or melting required, making canola…
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What’s in Season?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Contributor: Canadian Food Focus [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”16316″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://canadianfoodfocus.org/”][vc_column_text] In Canada, we are lucky to celebrate four distinct seasons. Eating seasonally means we get to enjoy each season’s fruits and vegetables at their peak freshness and despite our cold winters, there are many that we can be enjoy…
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