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Salmon croquettes recipe
Chef Jane Cornborough of L’Abattoir gives us her favourite salmon croquette recipe to celebrate salmon season in BC. Enjoy!
Green fig preserves
Green figs grow like mad in Vancouver, so what do you do with them all? Here’s a simple recipe for Persian style green fig preserves which are traditionally eaten for breakfast with bread, butter and nuts.
How to harvest bamboo shoots
There are hundreds of species of bamboo, all of which are edible. Some are better than others, many species only grow tough, bitter shoots, which must be cooked for a long time to be edible. Black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra) grows well in our lower mainland (BC) climate and is very tasty, just make sure you […]
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.
