Celebrate Local Food – 2019 Grand Prize Winner
Our Year-End Local Food Promotion Grand Prize winner is Christine Aikens
Celebrate Local Food
Celebrate Local Food – October 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winner is… Cindy Breitkreutz This is a Kugel made with local carrots, eggs and wild mushrooms (agaricus and oyster). So tasty!
Celebrate Local Food – September 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winner is… Sylwia Motała Saskatoon Berry Cake To make this beautiful Saskatoon Berry cake she used delicious antioxidant-rich berries grown in her front yard. The cake is covered with a homemade Saskatoon Berry chocolate sauce and fresh berries. And we have to love her email tag/quote: Life is uncertain; eat …
Celebrate Local Food – August 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winner is… Jeszika Jeszika, has sent us many many photos simply loving Yukon grown and raised foods
Celebrate Local Food – May 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winner is… ANNE HUANG This is my Shanghai style red braised pork belly! We had some local pork belly that we got from Flat Creek Farms, left over from our Easter dinner and instead of the usual recipes of roasting it I wanted to show how we can add a …
Celebrate Local Food – April 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winner is… Mary Holozubiec Mary wrote: The Yukon just may very well be the kale capital of Canada. Kale is not just for chips anymore. You can put in smoothies, salads, spanakopita,soups, quiches, and frittatas. The sky is the limit. Here is one of her favorite recipes for KALE QUINOA …
Celebrate Local Food – March 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winner is… Elise Maltinsky “I saw your page showcasing local food and I don’t know where to start ( so much local food available) so I thought I’d take a photo of what I used today – Little Red Hen eggs. I love that I can go to my nearby …
Celebrate Local Food – February 2019
This month’s Local Food Promotion winner is… Nadine Peters… and her local high bush cranberry chutney recipe!
Celebrate Local Food – January 2019
Two Wonderful Submissions! Received From Chef Berna O’Donovan of Cucina Berma Home cured Icy Waters Arctic Char Gravlax with Saffron and Hawaiian Red Salt. (above) Arctic char from Icy Waters Berna cured with salt, sugar, Yukon Juniper berries and Free Pour Jenny’s Solstice bitters. (right) Thank you Berma for answering our call and we’re pleased …
Jamaican Baked Bananas for Christmas
Delicate and fine, the American Beauty Rose china service was surrounded by gleaming silver cutlery, platters and serving bowls passed down through family generations. All set on crisp, freshly ironed linen tablecloths, the dining room was ready for royalty. I was 10 years old. A working class Caucasian kid on a mixed family street in …
In Bloom for Christmas
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens / Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens / Brown paper packages tied up with strings / These are a few of my favorite things.” So goes the delightful Christmas song. For Whitehorse florist, Crystal Rose, Christmas is more chaos than delight. The P.E.I. native opened her shop, …
A Tough Nut to Crack
Nuts are a staple product come Christmas time. The Nutcracker ballet is a staple theatre production, too. Combine the two and you have yourself a merry little nutcracker soldier man. But where on earth did the nut-cracking device originate? Believe it or not, it goes back to pre-historic times. Ruins of stone nutcrackers go far …
A Christmas Tale Retold
Manufacturing, transportation — even writing styles — have all changed since Clement Moore’s famous ditty, A Visit from St. Nicholas, first appeared anonymously in the Troy, N.Y. Sentinel on December 23, 1823. As a public service, What’s Up Yukon is pleased to present a more contemporary version of this oft-told tale: Yo, Nick. Is that …
Getting Ready for Christmas
It was December sometime in the mid-1950s. I was in the Baptist Mission School here in Whitehorse. Behind the fenced-in grounds of the school were several long buildings that were once used by the army. There also was the Army Theatre where we would perform our annual Christmas concert. We would practice in the long …
Eric’s Christmas Moose Stew
I’ve got a moose stew I usually throw together in the winter for a party. I get it going on the stove, and when it’s done I set it on the fireplace with a ladle and some bowls laying around for people to tie into it whenever they feel like it. I’ve never written it …
The Christmas That I Met Lady Sherry
My new job at a remote bush camp kept my wife Pearl and I apart for our first Christmas in 1946. When the spring rolled in, she joined me in the thick bush. I thought the bush was claustrophobic, but it didn’t bother her. She just said, “It’s as flat as the prairies, it’s just …
A Turkey and Some Gifts Can Make a Big Difference
For more than a decade volunteers have been bringing bundles of stuff to hundreds of families in need around Whitehorse at Christmas — and making a second trip back to the car to get the rest. The children who receive those gifts don’t know their parents’ full situation, nor the care and generosity of hundreds …
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Homegrown Hoedown: The Christmas craft fair season is upon us
The stories are as varied as the goods for sale. Yukon has a lot of crafty and artistic people, and this is the time of year they all come out to play – or rather they show us what they have been playing at all year long. Helene Belanger lets out her “inner Christmas Child” …
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Christmas Comes to This
My best Christmas ever felt humdrum and boring at first. I was a first-year university student in a Greyhound bus for 10 hours to spend Christmas with her grandparents and parents, instead of jet-setting back to her hometown to visit old friends and revisit high school haunts. It was hot at my grandparents house, so …
Home for Christmas
“You pour the brandy on the pudding and set fire to it?! You English are strange”. Whitehorse in the snowy grip of Winter 2001. Basement apartment. Our first Christmas together as a married couple. Our first Christmas away from home. What was originally conceived as a wildly adventurous honeymoon destination had morphed into a sojourn: …
Poinsettia: A Cherished Symbol of Christmas
The poinsettia plant, also known as the Christmas Star or Christmas Flower, has a history rich with tradition and meaning. In Mexico, the arrival of the poinsettia plant is associated with the story of a young girl named Pepita. As the story tells, this girl wept on her way to church, on Christmas Eve, at …
Anatomy of a Christmas Kindness
A battle is raging inside the F.H. Collins Gadzoosdaa Student Residence common room. Potato, turnip and carrot skins fly across the tabletop as 18 busy hands, armed with peelers, attack an army of vulnerable vegetables. The veggie numbers are overwhelmingly intimidating with another 50-pound box waiting in reserve. But as another defeated, skinned potato is …
Christmas has exploded 12 doors down.
Cher Yukon, Yes, it is that time of year again. I can’t believe I have been in Montréal almost four months. Of course this festive season brings my heart to a place of reminiscing, more so this year as I am living where I lived as a child and many of my childhood memories are …
Christmas for Farmers
I love Christmas … the lights that light up Main Street, the smells of Christmas baking, the excitement of wrapping up secrets and putting them under the tree. I love just about everything about Christmas … except the commercialization of it. So when doing my shopping, I try to look for things that haven’t been …
The editor’s Christmas Wish List
Over a mug of root beer, the editor of What’s Up Yukon, Darrell Hoo key, extols his particular Christmas Wish List. Topping the list, Wish No. 1, is what he calls his “Steve Martinian” wish: “For all of the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and …
A Taste of Denmark
My parents, Bob and Elly Porsild, were from Denmark and we always observed Christmas in the Scandinavian way, celebrating with dinner and pakke on the eve of December 24th. The meal always began with rice porridge with a blanched almond hidden in it, the finder of said almond receiving a small gift and a year’s …
A Thimble Full of Christmas Cranberries
thimble is a little cap worn on the finger while sewing. Common in past days, maybe not so common today (unless you are a quilter), a thimble can also be used to make a characteristic imprint on a traditional Christmas cookie. Children will enjoy doing the thimble job. Cranberries are filled into the thimble-holes of …
All I Want for Christmas is a Fishing Rod
You’ve written to Santa and he’s delivered. How he managed to maneuver that fully assembled nine-foot fishing rod down the chimney is best left a magical mystery. Either way, fish beware: you now have yourself a new fishing rig worthy of any Yukon water. As a novice angler with the hardware now in sight, don’t …
Peppermint Latte at the North Pole
Somebody pinch me. I’m really here in Santa’s Village! Rosy-cheeked elves and reindeer and Norwegian sweaters and tinkling bells. It’s so magical! Although December is high season, it’s remarkably easy to ignore the crowds when I’m dazzled by the childhood fantasies surrounding me. Everything twinkles here. I had some Aeroplan points to burn, and my …
Getting in Tune for Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is an ecumenical operation in Dawson City, and St. Paul’s Anglican gets the honour of hosting the 7 pm Carol Service because it has the largest sanctuary. It is a standing room only event, and it needs all the room it can get. The choir started rehearsing right after Remembrance Day. At any …
Caring for That Christmas Poinsettia
The poinsettia, or Christmas Star as it is known throughout Europe, is one of the very few plants that bloom during winter and the holiday season. The poinsettia has a rich and unique history that dates back to the Aztecs. The plant is native to Central America, specifically southern Mexico and is known there as …
Have Pig, Will Travel
As we get closer and closer to the epic feasts that are in the near future I can’t help but think of … the Christmas ham. It’s become a bit of a tradition at my family’s Christmas table for me to prepare a ham from scratch using the best pork I can find, followed by …
Festive Cake Balls
Cake Balls are a nice replacement for classic rum balls – lighter in texture because their insides have more cake than icing sugar
I Really Don’t Like Xmas
A new writer submitted a story the other day. A good story, too: well-written, informative, witty. But something in the first paragraph hit one of my uh-uh buttons. What made the veins on my forehead throb was a single word: Xmas. I really, really do not like Xmas. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing …
Santa Claus, Pet Whisperer
Is Logan sick of getting the same old moose bones every year? Would Fluffy like a pink rhinestone-studded collar, or is beaver skin more her style? Okay, your furry friends won’t actually be able to tell Santa what they’d like for Christmas, but that shouldn’t stop you from bringing them to Peabody’s Photo Parlour in …
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Darkness is closing in at 4:30 and it’s finally started to get cold here on the week I’m writing this. The cold is a good thing because it enables folks stranded in West Dawson to make the trip across the Yukon River for supplies. They may not agree with the “stranded” part, but after the …
A Matter of Texture
In Canada, as well as the States and all over Europe, this time of year the smells of cinnamon, molasses and ginger are overwhelming at times. I mean, even escaping our homes on a trip to a coffee shop, we can get hit with a gingerbread or pumpkin spice latte across the face. As we …
Festive Food Fare
Spinach Pie This is called Spinach Pie in my house, but it’s actually a no-crust quiche. My mom makes this for me when I visit, a tradition that started in my early 20s when she worried that I lived on Diet Coke and candy. It’s delicious, healthy, easy to make and a whole pie can …
A Pet for Christmas? Think Carefully
It seems to be that time of year again, when people want to give presents to friends. It’s also that time of year to really think about what they’re giving and what the gift really entails. A tie or a pair of earrings can be used or put in a drawer. They can even be …
Time for Time Out
Once the flurry of pre-Christmas activities dies down, there’s no need to feel bored just because school is out and you have a few days off work. For our last edition of 2011, What’s Up Yukon took a quick snapshot of some seasonal activities that might interest you. For the artistically or historically inclined, why …
Counting Birds: A Christmas Tradition
You may be familiar with the partridge in the pear tree and the two turtle doves – counting birds is a longstanding Christmas tradition. The first official Christmas Bird Count (CBC), however, was started in 1900, after American ornithologist Frank Chapman decided to count birds instead of kill them (the annual “side hunt” was a …
The Christmas Visitor
Grateful isn’t a word that automatically springs to mind when I think about myself as a child. My family wasn’t awash in money, but there was always food on the table and our home was always warm, thanks to our wood stove. I didn’t give much thought to what it would feel like to go …
