The Fern Grove

Made a batch of play dough today for my 18 month old son. My mom always made it for us in on pot over the stove and I always made it this way as well. However, that recipe has cream of tartar which is not something I have around now that I am a budget [...]

Three well established Rhubarb plants are existing on our new property and on the last cold rainy day I harvested several stalks from each plant and then went on a search for some good Rhubarb recipes. By the size of each of these plants all ready, I should have a good supply of rhubarb this [...]

As promised, I am admitting a horrible habit. One that has been apparent and bothering me the last couple of weeks and is now part of my Earth Day resolution (a concept I am coining). I will often (like two 0r three incidences a day) boil water for tea, forget about it and repeat, boiling [...]

My son (now 18months) LOVES blueberries. He would eat them with every meal if I let him. Over the winter when it was harder to get them fresh he got hooked on the frozen ones. This by the way was a great food to sooth him during teething! He loved them so much that I [...]

For this time of year and given the name of this blog I think it would be both timely and appropriate to mention a plant and food that has been on my mind since the sun and rain have prepared the forest floor in this part of Ontario for the emergence of the first young [...]

I recently signed up to receive new posts on the Foodie-file (one of the Canadian Living site blogs) via e-mail and was thrilled when I saw the subject of the latest post was so applicable to me and my baking situation. The post titled “Gluten in Flour: Everything you need to know” literally had everything [...]

I found this recipe online on SparkRecipe. Here is the original link http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=348298. I’ve also pasted the recipe below and added the modifications I made to the recipe which worked out great! I was looking for something that was similar to the monster cookies my mom used to make us pre gluten free diet and [...]

Well, fall is here! And it’s my favourite season! I love the fall colours, the cool (but not yet freezing temperatures), and especially the food! As I’m expecting very shortly, we are not traveling for thanksgiving dinner this year or planning any kind of big meal ourselves, so to make up for that I’ve been [...]

This is definitely a comfort food meal perfect for a cold fall day. I made up two batches of cookies while the stew was cooking in the crock pot. I made one batch with choco-chips for my boyfriend (oatmeal choco-chip is his favourite) and then I made the cranberry batch gluten free by using uncontaminated [...]

I’ve been on a gluten free diet now for about 4 months. My mom was recently diagnosed as a Celiac and I decided I better cut out gluten too as after becoming pregnant I found that anything with gluten in it wasn’t making me feel very well (putting it mildly). I’m still fairly new to [...]