Try this easy rhubarb relish made with fresh, seasonal rhubarb. It’s delicious and good on just about anything, such as meat, tofu and curry. 9 cups rhubarb, cut in one centimeter slices 1 cup onion, chopped fine 2 cups sugar 1 tsp. salt ½ cup vinegar ½ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp ground ginger ½ tsp […]
Dehydrated Fruit & Vegetables
At Sunrise Gardens we dehydrate fruit and vegetables, both to reduce food waste and to offer out-of-season specialty products. A few of our favourite dehydrated products are the vegetable mix, raspberries, saskatoons, beet crunch, and root vegetable crunch. The vegetable mix makes an awesome soup that is really easy to use on camping trips; gourmet […]
Squash Recipes x 3
There are lots of good reasons to eat squash, such as nutrition and health, but the main one is because squash is so delicious! Here are a few ways to include squash in your diet, including some different twists on the norm. Anyone who doesn’t want to deal with cutting thick squash rind can roast […]
Winter Squash
Squash! We love squash, it’s so delicious and very nutritious. Packed with carotenoids, antioxidants and dietary fibre, rich in vitamins and minerals and low in fat and starch, squash is very healthy. It is easy to cook and can be used to make meals all the way from breakfast through dessert. Muffins, gnocchi, soups, stews, […]
Red Mustard
There are many varieties of mustard greens available, which range in spiciness and pungency. We grow several different types: the Red-Frills mustard is mildly spicy and a great addition to salad greens; a mixed mustard blend which is a little more peppery and spicy than the Red-Frills and is good in stir-fries, sandwiches and wraps; […]
Stinging nettle: Useful and delicious
Stinging Nettle is one of the first plants to emerge in the forest each spring, and it has an amazing history. Humans have used this plant for thousands of years. World-wide it has been used as a food plant, to treat a variety of conditions, in fibre production and animal food. Interestingly, an archaeological site in […]