Peterborough Blogs
8 Great Things You Should Know About The Silver Bean Café This Season
/The locally owned and operated Silver Bean Café, your waterfront cottage in the city, is opening soon for the season. Below are 8 exciting things you should know about the Bean this season...
Photo via Silver Bean Café Facebook page
1. Opening Day is Sunday, April 30th this year at 8 am!
2. They have 10 more tables and 40 more chairs this season, bringing their patio seat total to about 125 to 130.
3. They have added a milkshake machine—yummy!—because people have often asked for them.
Photo via Silver Bean Café Facebook page
4. They have added a second cash register on the inside to have a lunch line and an express line, allowing people to make quicker purchases even during the peak lunch times.
5. They have expanded their ice cream section and bought a third freezer, bringing their flavour total to more than 30 ice cream flavours.
6. They also installed a second walk-up window so you're not all hanging out the same window.
7. They have changed the layout inside to make the flow work a bit better.
8. 90% of their awesome, friendly staff is returning.
OK, then, we're ready for the PTBO by the river, eh...
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Search & Rescue Team From CFB Trenton Lands In Farmer's Field To Pick Up Food From Muddy's Pit BBQ
/It was one of those amazing Canadian moments when a Search and Rescue Team out of Canadian Forces Base Trenton landed in a farmer's field on Thursday (April 13th) so they could grab food from Muddy's Pit BBQ near Peterborough.
Picture via @MuddysPitBBQ
The helicopter landed with permission next to Muddy's—which just re-opened for the season—in Keene so they could enjoy some authentic Southern style food (Muddy's specializes in ribs, brisket and pulled pork).
Here's the crew outside Muddy's...
Picture via @MuddysPitBBQ
Muddy's had a great sense of humour and adventure about the whole thing, posting this tweet...
Muddy's also posted the footage of the helicopter landing on their Facebook page and it's getting thousands and thousands of views...
If you haven't tried it, make sure to drop by this Spring and see why even helicopters land to pick up food from there...
Peterborough-Based Chimp Treats Will Have Product Line In Whole Foods Stores Across Ontario
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Brooke Hammer
Peterborough-based company Chimp Treats has announced their Nicecream line of products will soon be available on the shelves of Whole Foods.
Whole Foods—known for their natural and organic food options—makes for a perfect match with the single ingredient fruit ice cream 22-year-old entrepreneur Brooke Hammer has created with Nicecream. Chimp Treats will also be introducing two brand new flavours to the mix, Mango Banana and Strawberry Banana.
As the founder of Chimp Treats, Hammer came up with the idea of taking a popular recipe she was making in her home (an ice cream made entirely from bananas) and bringing it to grocery store shelves everywhere.
As a varsity athlete and Trent University student, she put her company ideas to action and added entrepreneur to the list, developing the process to make it all possible. She launched Chimp Treats in June 2016. She currently operates her business full time in the Innovation Cluster’s downtown Cube, Peterborough’s innovation incubator.
Chimp Treat's products are currently on shelves in Toronto, Peterborough and the surrounding area including Sobeys, JoAnne's Place, Fiesta Farms and Foodland. Now, Chimp Treats is excited to expand its signature product to the Whole Foods organization, showing that eating healthy can also be a treat.
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Calorie Tallies Will Now Appear On Menus At Approximately 80 Local Food Premises
/Local residents will now be able to make more informed food decisions at certain food premises thanks to Ontario’s new “Healthy Menu Choices Act” that took effect January 1, 2017.
The new legislation only affects food service providers with 20 or more locations in the province. This means calorie tallies will now be seen on menus at approximately 80 local food premises, according to Peterborough Public Health.
EASIER TO GET CALORIE INFORMATION NOW
“More and more people are paying close attention to what they are eating, so providing this calorie information is one way to encourage healthier food choices,” says Dr. Rosana Salvaterra, Medical Officer of Health. “For those who aren’t aware of how many calories are in certain foods, providing this information directly on the menu will help them better understand how to balance out their caloric intake throughout the day.”
Residents will now see the number of calories for each food and beverage item included on the menus, labels or tags at several local food service providers, such as restaurants, coffee shops, convenience stores, grocery stores and movie theatres.
Food service providers are also required to post an educational statement for customers about average daily caloric needs. For an updated list of local food premises affected by the legislation, visit peterboroughpublichealth.ca.
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Peterborough Downtown Farmers' Market Closes For Season This Wednesday
/It's been another amazing season for the Downtown Farmers' Market, which ends for the year this Wednesday (October 26th).
Head on down to the Louis St. Parking lot and stock up on and enjoy all seasonal produce and all your other favourite local products. Market-goers can get recipe ideas and enjoy samples of Chili, hors d'oeuvre and other treats made with all market ingredients.
Despite soaring temperatures and extreme drought, the Farmers' Market says in a media release that their farmers’ and vendors had a great season, and that they are proud to continue bringing Downtown Peterborough the freshest seasonal and locally made produce and products available in the region.
Visit the final market of the season to enjoy a lunch with friends, thank the vendors and farmers for their hard work this season, and stock up on local groceries.
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A Lakefield Chef Was Part Of A Team That Just Made The World's Largest Butter Tart Ever
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The butter tart weighed in at about 8,000 pounds
Read MorePlant It Forward: A Class At Immaculate Conception Elementary School Created A Food Forest
/Lead by the folks at GrowHappy.ca, Immaculate Conception elementary school in Peterborough created a "food forest" as part of an amazing class project on Thursday (June 23rd). Mitch Champagne's Grade 6/7 class collaborated with Mim Devitt's Grade 1 class to create a permaculture food forest.
Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.
A Food Forest is a low maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems—incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans.
Teacher Mitch Champagne, who live tweeted much of the day (see some below), says their School Based Food Forest Permaculture project focused on teaching students about food systems, habitat, environmentally sustainable farming practices, cooking, preserving, seed gathering and propagation, pollination and more.
Champagne says there is a great deal of research that links gardening in youth with positive mental health—something GrowHappy.ca espouses as part of their "Plant It Forward" approach—and the class explored these links.
"It was an incredible opportunity to create a sustainable Food Forest with our students," Champagne tells PTBOCanada of this memorable day. "The children brought so much energy, curiosity, and wonder to the whole experience. They really understood the links to positive physical and mental health and were very eager to 'Plant It Forward.'"
Two Dishes Cookshop To Be Featured On Hit Canadian Food Network Show "You Gotta Eat Here!"
/Peterborough's Two Dishes Cookshop & Catering (261 Charlotte St.) is going to be featured on an upcoming episode of the hit Food Network Canada show You Gotta Eat Here!
Promoting restaurants across our great country, the show features the owners, talks to customers, and shows how signature dishes are created at incredible restaurants across our great land.
This will be great promotion for Two Dishes Cookshop, the downtown and Peterborough, and Two Dishes is soon going to be able to dawn the awesome You Gotta Eat Here! sticker in its window.
What dish they will have featured on the show is yet to be known but we're looking forward to watching some behind the scenes footage of one of this city's best locally owned restaurants.
Photo via Two Dishes Catering Facebook page
Photo via Two Dishes Catering Facebook page
