First things first: Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen. It’s been pouring rain all morning and not showing any signs of letting up, so those cute little candy-crazy ghouls will be slipping and sliding their way along sidewalks painted with soggy yellow leaves tonight. Be careful, kids!
In other news, I’ve just whipped up a couple of crackerjack cranberry creations. [...]

Canada created the Coronation table grape, its name a nod to our dusty old royalist roots (which do not extend into Quebec), in the 70s, but they’ve only become widely available (in southern Ontario and Quebec at least) in the past five years or so. The Coronation grape is very similar to the American Concord [...]

Yep, jam met commerce. Just hawked my wares at the Puces Pop marketplace for two days in a row. Merci beaucoup to everyone who dropped by and chatted or bought a jar. I almost completely sold out on the first day. Biggest hits: grape and walnut conserve, fig and vanilla jam, ketchup aux fruits, plum [...]