Thanksgiving for Canadians is a feast celebrating our harvest – a final good-bye to summer and an acknowledgement of the autumn and winter months ahead. This happens around a table groaning with produce from the fields – squashes, pumpkins, cranberries, apples, corn, potatoes, peppers – all transformed into special recipes for this occasion. Whether you […]
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Turkey is traditional at Christmas
Christmas demands a turkey. Food traditions run deep. They are reinforced from infancy to adulthood both with our earliest memories of how we celebrate Christmas and with the media who create a view of how we should celebrate the season. Invariably, this view involves a picture of the family sitting around a beautifully-set Christmas table […]
After Thanksgiving dinner
New menu ideas are always welcome and these recipes from Foodland Ontario fill the bill. They are tasty, seasonal and ideal for post-Thanksgiving when you may have turkey and other ingredients left lurking in the refrigerator from the big celebratory dinner. Chicken or Turkey Tortilla Soup Nippier days make soup a happy addition to the […]
