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Veterans coffee & buddy check-in, October 1

Event: Veterans Coffee & Buddy Check-in Date: Thursday,...

Weber Q3200 BBQ for sale

I have a BBQ that I finally...

For Sale:  Woods 17 cu. ft. upright freezer

Clean & Working Perfectly Description: Selling a reliable Wood's...

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Grilled Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin with Charred Fingerling Potato Salad

by Susan Hanna This recipe from America’s Test Kitchen combines succulent spice-rubbed pork tenderloin with a delicious potato salad. Microwave the potatoes until they are softened and then thread onto...

Halloumi Tomato Salad with Herbs

by Susan Hanna This beautiful and delicious salad from Evergreen Kitchen is a great way to use the season’s tomatoes. Zest and juice a lemon and set the juice aside....

Garden Ratatouille Pasta Salad

by Susan Hanna This delicious pasta salad from Elle Gourmet is a great way to use late-summer produce. Cook the pasta and let cool. Cook eggplant and zucchini and set...

Shrimp and Green Bean Salad

by Susan Hanna This salad from Chatelaine is supposed to serve four, but it was so good the two of us ate it all in...

Gay Cook’s Corn, Tomato and Basil Salad Topped with Bacon

At this time of year our gardens and markets are all so colourful and over flowing with crops from cobs of corn, tomatoes the...

Ratatouille

by Susan Hanna Serves 4. This ratatouille recipe from Style at Home is a great way to use up the tomatoes and zucchini in your late-summer...

 Gay Cook’s Corn Coconut Soup

Serves 5 or 6 This soup has great flavour when the corn is at it's prime and roasted on the barbecue or under an oven...

Cool off with ‘cold brew coffee’ at Equator

Given that the humidex will be pushing 40 again this week, this note from Almonte's Equator Coffee Roasters seems especially timely. As we approach the dog...

Provençale Beef Brochettes

by Susan Hanna These tasty beef and vegetable skewers reach a whole new level when topped with a parsley-basil pesto vinaigrette. Use any remaining vinaigrette...

Gay Cook’s Red Cabbage, Cauliflower and  Butternut Squash Salad 

This recipe was printed in The Millstone last summer. I used to make this the salad often when I was working in Paris. The joy of...

Tables turned on me…

by Mark Cochrane This year the tables were turned on me when my family got together for the annual wine tasting at my brother’s cottage....

Thai American Noodles

by Susan Hanna My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes that Saved My Life is Ruth Reichl’s memoir about the year after her beloved Gourmet magazine abruptly...

Syrian Food at the Almonte Farmers’ Market

This past Saturday I had the delightful opportunity to visit Almonte and enjoy the exciting Puppets Up festival. Many restaurants were in full swing...

Almonte’s HFT donuts now available at Farm Boy

  Great news for Healthy Food Technologies donut lovers!!     They are very proud to announce that HFT donuts are now in Farm Boy grocery...

Roasted Red Peppers and Cherry Tomatoes with Ricotta

by Susan Hanna When I saw this recipe in the July 2016 issue of Bon Appetit, I knew I had to make it. Aside from...

Gay Cook’s Beef Burgers with Onions, Bacon and Pesto

Our warm summer is the time for barbecued burgers. The meat choice can be either ground beef or lamb with 20% fat, which is...

Eileen’s Potatoes

by Susan Hanna Fresh kitchen herbs are approaching their peak in the garden, and it’s sometimes hard to think of ways to cook with them....

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