Foraging for stinging nettles in BC
Chef Robin Kort sows you how to forage for stinging nettles in BC with tips on how to cook them.
Fiddlehead foraging
Fiddleheads are the tasty edible part of a young fern shoot. All curled up in a tight green ball, you pick these delicacies in springtime. In our area (Vancouver), bracken fern and lady fern are the two that are found (ostrich fern is the commercial variety, you can find in Northern BC). To hunt for […]
How to make maple snow candy
Here is a very simple recipe for how to make maple snow a true Canadian tradition of drizzling hot maple candy on snow to harden it.
German mulled wine recipe “Gluhwein”
Enjoy this German mulled wine recipe (Gluhwein) and happy Christmas from Chef Robin!
How to make tomato paste
You might NOT want to make this recipe, because once you taste it, you’ll never be able to buy tomato paste in a tube again. Every year in summer when the tomatoes are at their finest, juiciest and ripest, you’ll have to get out this recipe and spend all day making enough paste to last […]
Winter warm up – Celeriac truffle soup recipe
How to buy and cook with truffles. Chef Robin has included her favourite celeriac truffle soup recipe too.
