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May 3, 20242 min read
Pickling food and preserving traditions
Pickled beets, tomato jam, zucchini pickle, and pickled onions... preserving the traditions of my grandmothers.
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Mar 8, 20242 min read
In honour of my female ancestors
On International Women’s Day, I’d like to honour a few of the women in my family tree, the mother, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and...
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Mar 6, 20241 min read
Happy 110th Birthday, Grannie
Remembering a beloved grannie, through a rainbow of words.
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Nov 6, 20231 min read
Before Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
I was looking through my grannie's recipes (Kathleen Hattie Inkster, 1914-1984) and found this blank invoice form from the 1940s for Dr....
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Sep 11, 20221 min read
Aunt Myrtle's lemon pie
I was recently introduced to my husband’s Great-Aunt Myrtle—who died nearly 40 years ago—through her lemon pie filling. We were at a...
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Aug 27, 20223 min read
A touch of beauty
My husband and I recently visited his uncle in southern Alberta. I noticed an old china cabinet and peered at some of the objects...
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May 5, 20221 min read
Grannie's garden
WAS THERE EVER A MORE MAGICAL PLACE than Grannie’s house? Today we went to the nursery to buy some spring flowers for our garden. The...
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Oct 20, 20201 min read
Cooking with Great-Grannie
THE THINLY-SLICED CARROTS fall away from the knife. Potatoes simmer, A turkey basks In the oven heat. We wipe our hands on a tea towel,...
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Oct 21, 20191 min read
A perfect recipe for remembering
A boiled raisin cookie recipe, wrapped up in family traditions.
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