What Lori has to say about the kitchen!

November 30, 2011

The Ground to Griddle is so much fun!  I try to come as much as I can.  We cook different foods all the time and I am expanding my culinary repertoire and continually getting inspired.  We do field trips and gather cranberries, rosehips, pick apples, nettles and then bring them back and turn them into jam or jelly or spanakopita – everything!  We made a really tasty jelly we called CCR.  (cranberry, crab-apple and rosehips)

We make cookies and pies and can things; the works!

I have a three year old and childcare is provided while I cook.  The best part is that we get to eat it all for lunch and take some home for dinner!  It helps so much to have some dinner made on every other Tuesday due to our busy schedules.  Last week’s “Tex Mex” was so good and my family loved it.  We’ll be making that dish at home!

What's Going Down at the Kitchen!

Well, we’ve had a very busy fall here at the kitchen.  The week after our berry picking trip we picked crab apples from the trees around Smithers.  It didn’t take long for our group to gather a whole lot of crab apples!  We have an amazing steam juicer at the kitchen which has seen a lot of action this fall.  You can throw whole, clean crab apples into it and set it on the stove and within an hour the crabs are juiced and the juice can either be made into jelly immediately or frozen to make jelly at a later date.  We’ve chosen to freeze the crab apple juice and make jelly later in the year.

Preparations are under way for creating Digital Stories of the kitchen participants.  We are fortunate to be able to partner with Northwest Community College on this and will be using the computer lab so everyone can create their story.  If you haven’t heard of a Digital Story then I suggest you check out this great website http://www.storycenter.org/.  Digital Stories are a great way for people to share their voice and their lives in a meaningful way.  As our Digital Stories are made we plan to add them to this blog.  So keep tuned!