Growing Chipotle Peppers!

You actually can’t grow a chipotle pepper, because it isn’t a type of pepper in itself. A chipotle pepper is a Jalapeño pepper that has been allowed to ripen and go red, and is then smoked and dried. This past summer I smoked the green and the reds that I harvested along side some HungarianContinueContinue reading “Growing Chipotle Peppers!”

No Waste Christmas Pastry!

I hate kitchen waste with a passion, everything gets used if possible and when I’ve squeezed the last scraps out of the carcass or the vegetables they either go in stock or to compost. Pastry has always stumped me though. I always end up with little scraps that have been rolled multiple times and areContinueContinue reading “No Waste Christmas Pastry!”

Up-Cycling Fashion PowTown Style: A Review of Eunoia

Picture by Photo by Shanna Camilleri on Unsplash Visiting Powell River this past weekend, I was stunned to find up-cycling in the heart of the town site where the pulp and paper mill has been the dominant industry since 1912. Walking into the new Townsite Market, freshly opened on December 9th 2018, I came upon Eunoia, a fibreContinueContinue reading “Up-Cycling Fashion PowTown Style: A Review of Eunoia”