Get ready to learn a whole lot from this episode's guest, Debra McLennan from the Alberta Pulse Growers Commission. Pulses are the dry edible seeds of pod plants in the legume family. Pulses include field peas, dry beans, lentils and chickpeas and are high in protein and fibre and low in fat. The Alberta Pulse Growers is an organization representing 5,400 growers of field pea, dry bean, lentil, chickpea, faba bean and soybean in Alberta. And Debra herself is the Food & Nutrition Coordinator with the organization. She knows everything there is to know about growing pulses and bringing them ..read more

This week on Three Kitchens Podcast, Erin makes a great soup and sandwich for lunch. This Yellow Dahl Soup has a broth base (she used beef but you could do a veg broth or even just water) and is seasoned with cumin, turmeric, garlic, chilli, ginger and shallots. It's a great budget-friendly soup packed with protein from the lentils and flavour from all those add-ins. The toast Erin made started with fresh sourdough bread (if you're interested, scroll down for a link to our sourdough bread baking episode). She piled it with sumac roasted tomatoes, a garlic and tahini yogurt and avocado. Yum ..read more

This episode takes us back to one of our favourite fruits, the mighty lemon. We adore lemons in so many ways, both sweet and savoury. Oleo-Saccharum is a syrup made from lemon peels. This is great if you are making a recipe using lemon juice and then don't quite know what to do with the peels. Here is a solution that keeps the peels out of the compost bin, and you end up with a delicious sweet and zingy syrup. And you can also use any citrus fruit you love - oranges, grapefruit, lime, or a combination of any of these! Oleo-Saccharum is made by marinating citrus peels in sugar until you have ..read more

In this episode we’re learning about growing microgreens and herbs in a hydroponic vertical farm. Andrey Salazar and Guillermo Borges from ALLPA Vertical Farms in Calgary, Alberta, share the story of how they became urban farmers. As they explain, it takes a lot of hard work, some trial and error, specialized technical expertise and a little luck.  Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers. In the ALLPA farm, stacks are 14 feet high. The environment is carefully controlled for optimal temperature and light, and the plants are fed exactly the nutrients ..read more

We're tackling that most divisive food trend, the jellied salad, on the podcast this week.  While we draw the line at anything containing meat products, we do enjoy a pretty fruit or vegetable jell-o mold, and we have a few recipes that may turn those haters into jellied salad lovers. If you're new to making them, it may be helpful to know the terms jellied and jell-o may be used interchangeably in recipes.They may be made with fruit flavoured Jell-o brand powder or with plain unflavoured gelatine. If you read a recipe closely, you'll be fine.  Erin made a lime jell-o with shredded ..read more

In this podcast episode we revisit the empanada - a dish we first made a couple of years back. Erin made a filling inspired by an Icelandic lamb soup she loves to make. It made a delicious empanada filling. Even the people in your life who claim to not love lamb will like this, we're sure of it. Not to mention rutabaga. That's in there too! We got into quite a discussion about boiling eggs. There are so many methods, it's quite exhausting. But, we think hard boiled egg is an essential ingredient in empanada filling. So however you manage it, add chopped boiled egg into your empanadas. You'll ..read more

This week on the podcast, Heather shares two recipes using low-energy countertop appliances. You don't always need to heat a whole oven to make delicious recipes. First up is a Pork Tenderloin using the Zero Minute Pressure Cooker Method.  This cut of meat can be tricky to prepare. It's easy to over-do it and dry it out. This method for pork tenderloin comes from the website pressurecookerrecipes.com (link below) and it's called the Zero Minute Method because you literally set your InstantPot cooking time to zero minutes. The time it takes to come up to pressure and then release that pre ..read more

In this Three Kitchens episode, we welcome Sarah Morgan, historian, researcher and recipe tester behind the Cooking with the First Ladies Instagram account.  When she happened upon a cookbook of recipes attributed to First Ladies of the United States, Sarah began her journey of learning about the wives of American Presidents through their favourite recipes. It's learning about history through cooking, and we love that.  Sarah joins Erin and Heather to chat about this project, how it came about and some of the many recipes she has tried from the First Ladies Cookbook. Through her Ins ..read more

This Three Kitchens Podcast episode is released the day before Valentine's Day. If you need a last-minute dessert idea, guaranteed to impress your Valentine, or anyone else for that matter, we've got a recipe for you. It's an easy no-bake chocolate tart that also happens to tick a bunch of other boxes - gluten-free, dairy-free, eggless, and vegan. If that's not enough to sway you, it's also just plain yummy. Heather and Erin get a little sidetracked trying to determine the different definitions for tarts versus pies. It's all clear as mud, folks, but fun to talk about even if we didn't solve ..read more

This week on Three Kitchens Podcast, we welcome our first guest of 2024, Deborah Johnson, author of On Rising: Recipes and Rituals for Joyful Mornings. Deborah realized a life-long dream when she published this gorgeous book full of breakfast and brunch recipes, and guidance for creating a happier more fulfilling life. She includes personal stories from moments in her life that motivated her to take more time for herself and leaves space for readers to make notes as they find joy in their own mornings in the kitchen. In this episode we talk about the process of developing the book, from writi ..read more