Month: November 2014

Breads

Currant Fruit Buns and John Brock’s life long piggy bank

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Currant fruit buns: an old fashioned scone that’s mildly sweet and flakey. The recipe came from Gourmet Magazine sometime around 1976. It caught mom’s eye because she was hosting an English-style tea for some elderly neighbours and little currant buns fit the theme. That was the year we moved into […]

 
Green Living

Top 4 Reasons to Buy Local Food

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Locally grown food tastes better, plain and simple. There’s nothing like a locally grown carrot to remind you of why buying local is so great, and tasty. Carrots pulled from Fullerton’s gardens on the Kingston Peninsula are sweet and loaded with flavor, nothing like the bland carrots I’ll eat through […]