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Seasonal Cooking


Feature Writer: Liliana Tommasini
Liliana Tommasini, photo by Camelia Lepore

Welcome and be inspired by our writers cooking with seasonal produce.

Spring clean food cupboard essentials and sort out ingredients for a sustainable pantry.

Enjoy locavore recipes.

Check out what to pack for a Spring picnic outdoors plus know-how about wild edibles.

In a small space or larger backyard start to grow your own vegetables, planting salad vegetables, fruit and propagating evergreen herbs for zero food miles.

Economical cookery ideas including home-made dips, sauces, spreads, butters, jams, jellies and marmalade.

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Liliana Tommasini

Strawberry and Vanilla Ice Cream Cake

In: Summer Recipes

Strawberry and Vanilla Ice Cream Cake is layered with strawberry and vanilla ice cream, crumbled chocolate chip cookies and drizzled with chocolate sauce. more...

Ultimate Lemon Pound Cake

In: Seasonal Cooking (general)

Luscious Lemon Desserts by Lori Longbotham is a must have dessert book for all lemon dessert lovers, offering over 70 delectable lemon desserts. more...

Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni Recipe

In: Seasonal Cooking (general)

Fresh spinach is combined with a two cheese filling for this savory Spinach Ricotta and Cannelloni Recipe. more...

Strawberry Cream Almond Roulade Recipe

In: Summer Recipes

An almond flavoured sponge cake roll filled with fresh strawberries and almond pastry cream makes a fresh summer dessert. more...

Fettuccine with Fresh Fava Beans and Fresh Peas

In: Spring Recipes

Fresh fava beans and fresh peas are combined with onions and pancetta to produce a savoury sauce served with fettuccine and topped with grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. more...

Maple Syrup - A Quebec Sweet Tradition

In: Spring Recipes

Auberge des Gallant, one of many maple syrup producers in Quebec, taps thousands of maple trees to collect flowing sap to produce maple syrup and maple syrup products. more...

Fried Zucchini Blossoms and Other Recipes

In: Summer Recipes

The ever popular zucchini blossoms, flourishing in every garden's zucchini patch, are the main ingredients in these savoury, easy to prepare Italian recipes. more...

Farmers in Chef Hats: Review

In: Seasonal Cooking (general)

Farmers in Chef Hats, contains 124 pages of over 50 bilingual recipes made with seasonal fresh products and ingredients from l'Île d'Orléans, Quebec, by Linda Arsenault. more...

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