High-producing and versatile squashes to keep a gardener busy and happy all summer long! Summer squash is the soft and tender variety of...

Inspired by the French Canadian traditional “Pouding Chômeur”, made with frozen berries. “Pouding” means pudding, and “chômeur” means...

Garden spuds certainly are treasures from the ground and worth digging for! Roasted, steamed, mashed, fried or baked: potatoes are simply...

This Australian native greens and bush tomato scone is absolutely delicious and a real winner! Warrigal Greens is a wild spinach native...

Backyard gardening can be more than just a hobby, here’s why you may want to dig in too . Pottering in the backyard • Photography © Matt Beaver/SVC 2021 Growing up in a mountain and lake region of Québec and loving outdoor activities, nature has always been essential. Love and timing can sometimes bring you somewhere unexpected. One day, it brought me to live in Montréal city for 15 years (when I expected that to be temporary for a year only), and here I have been for 10 yea

The taste of a summer garden captured in a jar of homemade seasoning! This salt blend is a homemade version of the old “herbamare”. With...

A must-have ingredient, worth growing in the backyard and never leaving behind! I love growing garlic for many reasons. I might not...

An excellent way to preserve fresh culinary herbs, inspired by the Québec “Herbes Salées”. The term “herbes salées” (salted herbs) comes...

A refreshing cocktail from the garden for a lazy, sunny afternoon! Rhubarb and mint are very hardy perennial plants that do not require...

Fresh eggs, bought locally or collected from the backyard hen's nest are simply the best! I love my backyard “chooks” (Aussie nickname...

The star of the edible flowers, king of the garden plants, with a succulent heart to fall for! The globe artichoke is a fascinating...

Here is a simple way to prepare, cook and eat a fresh artichoke bud, straight from the garden. My heart beats for artichokes. I feel...

Hot or iced, this tea is a lovely and healthy drink, homemade with beautiful fresh garden sage. A culinary herb I never really used...

A leafy green salad with the first backyard harvest as a fresh start for the growing season. This is my favourite early spring garden...

Spring in the garden means a marathon of leaves, but nothing is wasted with green pesto! There is no need to wait until the basil is...

Green up your winter with this nourishing soup blending winter greens and split peas! Some like to blend greens in their smoothie, and...

Québec corn season is the golden hour of summer and time for the “Épluchette de blé d’Inde”! Sweet corn stall at Marché Jean-Talon, Montréal, Québec • Photography © Bottle and Brush Studio 2019 The “ épluchette de blé d’Inde ” is an old Québec tradition that basically means a corn husking party. Sweet corn season runs from mid-July to October, but August is the peak time to buy fresh cobs grown in abundance all over the province. With the husk still on , corn is sold by the

Make your “squash” concentrate with freshly squeezed juice of any citrus. A cordial is a concentrated non-alcoholic syrup flavoured with...

Winter vitamin C means citrus and here are a few words about this interesting tiny variety. Spelled with a “C” in Australia instead of a...

An easy way to make this seasoning is to infuse salt with celery leaves in the oven. When growing your own celery in the veggie patch,...