(NC)—Sweet potatoes, Ontario apples and the rich tang of Gruyère cheese are a divine combination of flavours and add a sweet touch to Sunday night’s roast pork dinner or your Thanksgiving dinner. 3 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced in 1/4-inch (5 mm) thick rounds 1.5 kg 1 onion, thinly sliced into rings 1 4 Ontario [...]

(NC)—Ham, turkey, maybe even duck—but a Thanksgiving Day goat? Thanks to hundreds of Canadians, this is the new Thanksgiving tradition. Christian Children’s Fund of Canada, an international children’s charity, collects donations from across Canada to provide goats to poor families in remote parts of Africa and South America. They are a great source of milk, [...]

(NC)—Hosting the Thanksgiving feast this year? Why not free up the oven for freshly baked pies and use the grill to roast a beer-butt turkey. Inspired by the flavours of fall, this recipe is made with Rickard’s Dark, an English-style porter with a hint of Canadian maple syrup. Ingredients: • 1 whole 8 pound turkey [...]

(NC)—When planning her Thanksgiving menu, Canadian chef Lynn Crawford, host of the Food Network show “Pitchin’ In”, likes to keep it close to home. Crawford passionately seeks out the best that Canadian farmers have to offer. Her local love affair also extends to the grape-growing wine producers of Niagara-on-the-lake and the Okanagan Valley. She found [...]

(NC)—While it is customary to create a food dish first and then choose a complementary wine, Canadian celebrity chef Lynn Crawford is anything but predictable. To shake things up this Thanksgiving, Crawford, chef at restaurant Ruby WatchCo and host of the Food Network show “Pitchin’ In”, challenged herself to flip her dessert planning and begin [...]

Today, Thanksgiving is a time of turkey, too much food, and a long weekend. Yet, historically it’s about much more – especially for Canadians. Most Canadians know the American story of Thanksgiving with the pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, and the Indians, but few know the history of Canada’s Thanksgiving: In 1578 English explorer Martin Frobischer, who [...]