Last Minute Foodie Gift Ideas

DIY: Homemade Vanilla Extract

If you have a foodie friend or family member or anyone for whom it is difficult to find gifts, take a look at these easy gift ideas. These are specifically edible gift ideas, easily consumed so they won’t clutter the house. They are also easy to make and budget-friendly, so you don’t need to worry about […]

Rosemary Flavoured Salt

DIY Rosemary Salt, Kiku Corner

Rosemary is such a flavourful herb with a woodsy, foresty, somewhat piney aroma that nicely compliments the strong taste of lamb. For non-meat eaters like myself, I enjoy rosemary with potatoes, onions, or beans. Rosemary surprisingly goes nicely with apples or pears in sweet dishes – just be sure to not add too much. Like the thyme […]

Thyme Flavoured Salt

Thyme Flavoured Salt, Kiku Coner

Michael Stadtländer is a German chef who set up an eccentric farm-restaurant in rural Ontario. On Stadtländer’s sprawling property, Eigensinn Farm, his team grows the organic produce and raises the free-range pigs, sheep, rabbit, goat, and poultry for his restaurant at the farmhouse. He also has beehives for honey, a stand of sugar maples for maple syrup, and he combs […]