In the Kitchen Archives - Blueberry Hills Farm

20 February 2018 5

Maple syrup season – the earliest ever!

Maple sap starts to run when the nights are still cold but the days are above freezing. Sunshine also helps, and it’s usually early to mid March before the sap is flowing. Those conditions came far earlier this year. We tapped our trees on 14th February and I can’t help wondering why it was so early. Is it global warming that’s shifting the seasons or is it just something that happens once in a while?

30 December 2017 10

Spicy horseradish sauce for cold days. Learn how to make a quick & easy horseradish sauce?

Horseradish is an easy plant to grow. It’s also quick and easy to whip up a fiery horseradish sauce that’s so much better than than anything you can buy.

31 October 2017 8

Fallen apples and green tomatoes? Use them up in Green Tomato Chutney.

It’s the end of the gardening season and the tomatoes are finished. Despite the wonderful fall we’re having the green tomatoes refuse to ripen. This week I gathered them up, and along with some windfall apples, made a batch of Green Tomato Chutney.

7 September 2017 2

Gathering Rose Hips from Brier Island for a wartime Rose Hip Syrup.

We recently spent a couple of days camping with friends on Brier Island. Earlier in the year when we visited, the wild roses were in full bloom along the sand dunes. Now, in September, the rose hips were ripe for picking.
Read my latest blog post that includes a wartime recipe for Rosehip syrup which is great for coughs and sore throats. Also Rose hip tea for a healthy boost to the immune system.

29 June 2017 10

5 easy recipes using garlic scapes.

Learn what garlic scapes are, when to harvest them and how to use them. Here are 5 of my favourite garlic scape recipes, Garlic scape hummus, garlic scape salad dressing, garlic scape dip, garlic scape pesto, and garlic scape, spinach and bacon fritt

7 June 2017 0

5 Reasons to grow dandelions in your lawn.

Once you get to view the lowly dandelion as something other than a weed, you’ll be happy to have this tenacious perennial in your garden.

Here are 5 good reasons to let them grow in your lawn and gardens.

29 March 2017 0

How to use the changeable weather to make maple syrup quicker.

The ratio of maple sap to maple syrup is 40:1, so the early settlers would pour the maple sap into wide wooden troughs, allowing the water to freeze overnight. In the morning the ice would be lifted off and discarded. Commercially this is known as freeze concentration. The remaining sugar solution takes far less time and much less firewood to evaporate the water, leaving a sweet, amber syrup to pour on pancakes. Read more…

11 February 2017 4

It’s easy to grow Stevia in your own garden.

I have tried store-bought Stevia powder in the past and found that it left a strange ‘after taste’ in the mouth, but knowing that homegrown herbs always taste far superior to store-bought, I thought home grown Stevia would be better. It is!