summer and the livin is easy
Too hot to cook? Grill some good bread and slather with these toppings by chef Kaelin Whittaker — white bean, ricotta and tomatoes from your garden or the farmers’ market.
we all scream for ice cream
Local ice cream company Little Bear will be at Taste of Edmonton at Churchill Square, July 22-August 1. Find Little Bear at Caffeind in Shoppes of Jagare Ridge, Confetti Sweets in Sherwood Park, Culina to Go, Culina on the Lake, Eleanor et Laurent, Meuwly’s, Mini Kitchen, Popowich Meat Company, Uproot Food Collective and weekly at farmers’ markets: 124 Grand Market, Bountiful, Old Strathcona and Gasoline Alley in Red Deer. July feature flavours are Maple Walnut gelato and Root Beer sorbet.
bison on the grill? yes!
Noble Bison is now working with Canadian chef Claudio Aprile. The respected restaurateur, chef and MasterChef Canada judge gives tips on how to cook bison and recipes, including a summery bison steak salad. Noble is a consortium of prairie ranchers who raise bison on grass to create a heart-healthy lean protein, containing one of the best Omega-3/Omega-6 ratios of any red meat —high in iron, B vitamins, zinc and selenium. To watch the video and check out new recipes click here.
tomato top100: haskap berries
Haskap berry picking at Rosy Farms has to be one of the best summer activities going. The haskap, also known as the honeyberry, is an edible blue honeysuckle native to Japan, Russia and Canada. It tastes like a blueberry or a blueberry/raspberry cross and that dusky blue purple colour means that the berries contain beneficial anthocyanins. Very easy to pick, with no thorns to watch out for. Visit the farm near Alcomdale, 9am-5pm Tuesday to Sunday. Bring the kids! Visit rosyfarms.com for directions and all the deets. If you don’t eat them all on the way home, make a crisp, bake some muffins or slather on ice cream. Or, visit Kind Ice Cream and try the Prairie Berry sorbet made with strawberries and blueberries and Rosy Farms haskaps.
