Our web-site generates a lot of requests for resources on eating and drinking locally made, grown or processed food in the Edmonton area. Here’s are a few listings from a couple of members. If you have any favorite products, please email us a listing (just follow the format of the other listings) and we’ll add it. As more people add listings to good food that they find in our community, the list becomes better and more of a resource to help connect growers with eaters! Read on for the listing and add your favorites in “comments” at the end. Read the rest of this entry »

It was a packed house again for the 2nd Annual Northern Food Night held at our home on March 31st. We enlisted the talents of local chefs and foodies to take on some of the challenges of working with northern cuisine. A total of 15 dishes were created using ingredients such as pickerel, caribou, ptarmigan, musk ox and Arctic Char. Gail Hall’s Provencale caribou chops served with a Diable sauce were spectacular as was Brad Smoliak’s delicate whitefish carpaccio. Carla Alexander of Soul Soup used her magic to concoct an Arctic Char and whitefish chowder that should be designated a main staple of every Canadian’s diet, and Gavin Strombecky roasted to perfection a 13 pound caribou roast complete with succulent Alley Kat Kiltlifter-enhanced gravy. Whitefish caviar was served two ways by Mary Bailey: on rounds of Little Potato Company steamed potatoes with crème fraiche, as well as on endive with strips of Arctic Char. Wow. Read the rest of this entry »