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I’d Tap That: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Own Maple Syrup

Mon, 22/02/10 – 1:59 | No Comment

It’s mid-February and the only thing that keeps a Canadian like me from opening a vein this time of year is the thought of thawing snow, plants beginning to grow, song birds returning and budding leaves on the trees. Even before we can start seed in the greenhouse or prepare the soil for Spring planting out at the farm, we can enjoy the first glorious days of relative warmth and participate in a local culinary tradition that predates European settlement of this harsh, cold landscape. All ‘syrup-suckers’, as Stephen Colbert affectionately refers to us Canadians, really should give the process of making Maple syrup a try at least once. When the Enns family offered up for tapping their 25 acres of virgin sugar bush in New Hamburg, Ontario that is exactly what I intended to do for the very first time.

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Radish Butter

Friday, 4 Jun, 2010 – 22:23 | No Comment

A great, easy and refreshingly delicious recipe for those early spring radishes.It’s perfect simply on a slice of french baguette or use it on your sandwiches in place of regular butter.
Ingredients
15 French breakfast radishes
6 Radish …

Sake and Maple-Marinated Sablefish with a Hijiki – Soy Sauce

Friday, 30 Apr, 2010 – 9:41 | No Comment

Another interesting and tasty recipe from Rob Feenie making good use of our freshly made maple syrup.
Yield: 4
Ingredients

1 cup sake
1/3 cup Sweet Ass pure maple syrup
4×5 ounce fillets sablefish (aka black …

Owen’s Dutch Oven Beer Bread

Sunday, 28 Mar, 2010 – 14:00 | No Comment

Photo by Jenn Chic
Owen Lass and I prepared these beautiful loaves the day before a big pork celebration out at Church Hill Farm in New Hamburg, proofing them overnight and baking them two at a …

Maple Orange Cornish Hens

Friday, 12 Mar, 2010 – 13:58 | No Comment

Maple syrup is definitely not just for pancakes. This is a great recipe for Cornish Hens that will definitely make all your hard work boiling down Maple sap this spring worth while. True, oranges cannot …

Slow-Roasted Beet with Crisp Goat Cheese and Orange-Shallot Vinaigrette

Friday, 11 Dec, 2009 – 14:10 | No Comment

A very nice dish for the autumn beet harvest. Can’t get enough of them! Add goat cheese and I’m in heaven.
For the beets
4 large candy-cane or golden beets (about 3 lbs), trimmed
Vegetable oil
Kosher salt
For the …

Tester

Saturday, 28 Nov, 2009 – 18:46 | No Comment

Just a test post.

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