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A “Goat-send” Christmas
As I have mentioned before, my daughters and I take turns choosing a theme for our Christmas décor and menu every year, but this year, we decided to give my husband a turn … click on title fo…
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December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Carrot Beverage – A Vitamin and Antioxidant Boost
In Mexico, fruit and vegetable juices are a healthy choice for a quick start of the day, and carrot has always been a favourite … click on title for more
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December 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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December 12 – A Twice Special Day
December 12 has been traditionally the day of the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, but it also is National Poinsettia Day …
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December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Pork with Beans in Green Sauce
The fall weather stayed pleasantly mild for quite a while this year here in Southern Ontario, so the shelling bean vines were very prolific. I used some of the shelling beans in this recipe for por…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Citrus Tarragon Chicken
I had some Mexican tarragon (yautli) leftover from my previous post, so I thought using it in a marinade for chicken breasts would be delicious.  This is a contemporary recipe, but still has the Me…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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A Day of the Dead Offering
A few years back, I prepared a full Day of the Dead offering, including cempasúchil, and in another year, I only made a small offering with basic elements.  This year, I did not grow cempasúchil in…
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November 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Apple (or Crabapple) Jelly – Ate de manzana (silvestre)
I harvested a bowl full of crabapples from my garden. Because the fruit was so small, it would have been hard to peel or core, and since I use no pesticides in my garden, a lot of it had mould or i…
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October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Crabapples – Free Fall Food
Crabapples were originally wild in their native North American and Euro Asian regions, but nowadays they are cultivated all around the world as ornamentals and for their edible fruit … click …
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October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Crazy Snacks for Halloween – Dorilocos and Tostilocos
For Halloween treats, I have bought a variety pack of individual-sized bags of chips, and they made me think of a kind of popular snacks that started to appear as a street food in Mexico back in th…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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National Taco Day 2025
Since I started my blog in 2018, I have shared a post related to tacos every October 4, marked as National Taco Day in the US and Canada.  Click on the highlighted year numbers to visit my Taco Day…
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October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Mexican Tarragon and St. Michael
In my garden today, September 29, the plants of Mexican tarragon (known as Yautli in Nahuatl language) have started to bloom. September 29 is also marked on Christian calendars as Michaelmas or the…
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September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Squash Flower Soup – Sopa de Flor de Calabaza
After stuffing squash flowers, and putting them in tacos and quesadillas all summer long, it is time to switch to autumn mode, with this delicious soup … click on title for more
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September 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Salpicón Bowl – Shredded Beef Salad in a Bowl
In Mexico, the basic salpicón recipe might look like a pico de gallo salsa fortified with shredded beef, but it is often doctored with other vegetables. Prepared as an individual portion in a bowl,…
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September 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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September Harvest
My backyard harvest this week was not bad, and I am  still seeing a lot of flowers and developing fruit in many of my crops … click on title for more
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September 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Memelas – A Celebration of Independence and Flavour
The re-enactment of the “Cry for Independence” is traditionally followed with music, light displays, fireworks, and of course, lots of street food.  Antojitos (Little cravings) are prep…
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September 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Cooking with the Harvest
In my previous post I had, amongst the harvested produce, the last of my watercress and a good bunch of rainbow mini tomatoes, so I made a refreshing watercress potato salad … click on title …
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September 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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August Harvest
It has been an extremely hot month of August in Southern Ontario, and just this week, we got some rain and a break with more agreeable temperatures.  I have been harvesting smaller amounts of produ…
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August 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Dragon Tongue Beans
Dragon Tongue Beans are a beautiful heirloom variety of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), originally from Mexico, and now cultivated in many other countries … click on title for more
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August 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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A Backyard Taco
I managed a small mixed harvest of cultivated crops and volunteers, enough for my lunch … click on title for more
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July 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Harvest of the Day
It is July and definitely summer here  in Southern Ontario.  A few days ago, I harvested from some of my herbal plants, for different purposes … click on title for more
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July 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A Refreshing Salad – Jícama Slaw
In Mexico, jícamas are peeled and sliced into rounds, sticks or chunks, and eaten with lime juice, chili powder and salt, or as part of a chunky salad (pico de gallo) or a fruit cup (fruta picada.)…
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July 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Potted News
As the weather is becoming milder in Southern Ontario, I am getting my overwintered potted plants ready to go to the backyard, so I took photos of four of them to share. I am also including two new…
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June 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Pickled Sunchokes and Carrots
I recently harvested a large batch of sunchoke tubers from my backyard, and they needed to be cooked as soon as possible. To reduce inulin content, and preserve the sunchokes, I thought that soakin…
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May 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Backyard 2025
Here in Southern Ontario, crocuses, daffodils and tulips have gone through their orderly parade of colours, and now more seasonal spring temperatures are turning everything green outdoors, includin…
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May 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Watercress Update
Amongst the new-to-me seeds this year, I got a packet of watercress; I started some seed indoors last March … click on title for more
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April 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM