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For years I've been tormenting myself about writing a memoir or at the very least, jotting down little remembrances, but I put it off and...
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Signe Langford
Nov 10, 20182 min read
Pumpkins, Harrowsmith, and Other Fun Stuff
I’ve been busy; so much going on…mostly good, some of it fan-freakin’-tastic, and well, there’s been some sadness too. First, let’s just...
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Signe Langford
Feb 11, 20182 min read
YOU Can Cook Anything!
Cooking has always been easy for me, I come to it naturally and I was exposed to it from a very early age. We didn't eat out often and...
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Signe Langford
Feb 6, 20187 min read
All By Myself
Professor Ferguson warned the students of Food Writing I: “It’s a lonely profession, being a freelance writer.” She wasn’t kidding. Ever...
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Signe Langford
Nov 22, 20173 min read
It’s a Christmas Miracle!
I’m giving it away. My mother’s secret. The one she held close; a few scribbles on a greasy, dog-eared page. I know she had others. Sad...
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Signe Langford
Nov 17, 20173 min read
A Tart Tart!
If I failed to ask nicely for something, Mother always reminded me that I would attract more flies with honey than vinegar. It was a long...
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Signe Langford
May 19, 20176 min read
Digest This!
Mother was not the mothering sort. She had babies. Plenty of ‘em – five – but after they graduated from wriggling, cooing helplessness,...
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Signe Langford
Apr 11, 20174 min read
Asparagus Crimes, No Punishment
This is spring: a tiny oven bird biddeling along a fallen branch in Thickson's Woods... ...and in my garden, this is spring: the first...
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Signe Langford
Mar 11, 20175 min read
I'd Tap That!
The maple tree is so deeply rooted in Quebec and Ontario culture that we hold parties to celebrate its sweet gifts. It’s well-rooted in...
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Signe Langford
Feb 6, 20177 min read
Foodie by Nature, Frugal by Nurture
"Waste not, want not." I heard that constantly when I was a kid. I never understood it, mind you. I thought, if I didn't want it why...
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Signe Langford
Jan 30, 20172 min read
Dough Ball Deliverance
I love a ball of pizza dough; homemade or store-bought. Though, in all honesty, I rarely make my own. For around two bucks I can get a...
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Signe Langford
Jan 26, 20172 min read
Do Some Dumplings
I don't celebrate Chinese New Year, (I don't even celebrate that other New Year's Eve thing) but really, any reason for dim sum and...
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Signe Langford
Jan 20, 20173 min read
Cooking with Beer
Originally posted on 10/25/2012 Though I wrote and posted this blog a couple of years ago on my old website, I wanted to give it a second...
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Signe Langford
Jan 10, 20176 min read
Fishing the Ottawa
Photo: Renate Pasborg-Hering - Ice fishing huts on the Ottawa River near Hudson, Quebec, mid-1990s. From Lake Temiskaming way north of...
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Signe Langford
Jan 4, 20173 min read
Warm, Reakin’, Rich!
In case you were wondering just now - as I'm sure you were - Robbie Burns Day or as it's also known, Burns Night, is celebrated on...
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Signe Langford
Dec 15, 20167 min read
The Elephant in the Room
A while back I posted about my conflicted relationship with meat. And then, as the hours and days passed, I realized there was more to...
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Signe Langford
Dec 13, 20165 min read
Oh, My Divided Heart
This will be as confusing for you as it is for me. There is so very much talk around meat and sustainability and ethics and and and.... I...
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Signe Langford
Nov 13, 20162 min read
...And a Super Moon too!
Holy crow. It's been a fun-filled, excitement-packed couple of weeks with a few more to come! The book keeps getting media love, with new...
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Signe Langford
Nov 3, 20163 min read
A Christmas Recipe from Me to You!
Yup, crazy I know, but it's just around the corner. Seriously. It's sooner than you think. And therefor, it's time to start planning and...
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Signe Langford
Oct 28, 20162 min read
A Place to Grow...Ontario!
Originally posted on 5/2/2013 This is Prince Edward County, Ontario, rye. It's the first lot of a test crop. The folks at Stonemill...
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