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Yes That's Me!

"How do I get back to that?"

8/27/2020

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Somedays you wake up and find yourself smiling back at you...

Thank you Julia Peterson and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix for publishing this feature article on my local food passion as a writer, eater and advocate. Julia touched on my two previous books Prairie Feast: A Writer's Journey Home for Dinner & Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens, as well as my current writing project on the history of wheat. Tap the picture 👇 to read the article. And eat local!
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Easy as Pie

8/23/2020

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I've been making pies and thinking about the saying "Easy as pie." Why do we say that when so many people find pies difficult to make?

In pioneer times, pie was the go-to feed-a-crowd dessert. Pastry requires just a few simple ingredients and can be filled with almost anything. It's as easy as... pie!

The fact is, there's more to pie than the recipe itself. Pastry is technique pure and simple, and practice makes perfect. The trick is to keep all ingredients chilled and to work the dough as little as possible. Never knead pie pastry.

I got apples this week from my brother's farm at Craik (where I grew up). Today we made three apple pies ~ my husband cutting apples, me rolling and assembling. They are now in the freezer waiting for a special occasion.

I also made a rustic berry galette for dinner tonight with a mix of blueberries, saskatoons, haskap, raspberries and a bit of rhubarb. Proof it's always easy to fill a pie, no matter what the season.
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Field Stones

8/17/2020

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So you're driving down a country highway and see this. Do you pull a u turn to take a look? Of course you do, because this is a vestige of our pioneering past and testament to the hard work and perseverance of those first farmers.

What is it, you ask? These are millstones which were used to grind wheat into flour. They stand on Highway 5 at the town of Buchanan. The plaque gives the early town history but provides no insight into who made or used these millstones. You can see by its shape that the one on the right was never completed.

As a farm girl, bread maker and fan of all things wheat, I had to get my picture taken with this relic of days gone by when prairie living required self sufficiency in all things, including our daily bread.
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What's in a Cover

8/10/2020

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Whew. After a marathon four days of page proofing, "Thelma" is off to the printers. Now the wait for an honest to goodness book to emerge...

For several months, I've been sending the publisher possible images for the cover of the book. But in the end, he picked a photo I had not considered in my own little pea brain. But it's brilliant!! Don't you agree?

This is Thelma as a little girl, captured by her father's lens, doing what she has loved for all of her 100 years ~ reading a good book.
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    Amy Jo Ehman

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