Get your Quebecois culinary dictionary out. We’re talking ketchup aux fruits. Fruit ketchup. It’s an old-timey Quebec specialty that marries perfectly with tourtière, Quebec’s signature meat pie, usually made with pork, though sometimes with any  combination of pork, beef and veal, and often flavoured with cloves and cinnamon.
It’s also swell with pork chops, hamburgers -  [...]

Hey canning nerds,
I will be at the Puces Pop marketplace this weekend selling my wares.
The Puces Pop marketplace, my fellow preserves perverts, is a little bazaar/market/fair where all kinds local crafters and artisans gather to hawk their poetry zines, vegan soaps and kooky jewelery designs. This year, I enlisted and have joined their ranks.
Come by [...]

Pickle passion is blowing in the wind.
Last weekend in a bar, an acquaintance was raving about his grandma’s recipe. Said he’s run into old girlfriends unseen for 10 years who still get starry-eyed at the memory of his granny’s otherworldly pickles. Told me he’d try to dig the recipe up for me. Another friend I [...]

Yikes. It’s that time of year. End of summer. Harvest time. Been having a hard time keeping up. Still need to post about my marinated eggplant, tomatoes packed in their own juices and greengage plum jam from Christine Ferber’s book Mes Confitures.
But first things first. Here’s an update on something I made about two weeks [...]

It’s the tail end of blueberry season here in Quebec.
These little navy pearls are from Lac St-Jean and have a much more intense flavour than their bloated, watery, cultivated brethren. Every year I freeze enough to last us through winter since they’re perfect for adding to oatmeal or pancakes. I snapped up a boat-sized basket [...]