Meeting Activities: Speaker, Flower Show, Master Gardeners (available for questions). Click here for Flower Show Details.

Guest Speaker: Yvonne Tremblay

Topic: ”Tips and Tricks for Cooking with and Preserving Herbs"

Yvonne is passionate about culinary herbs! She will share about how to grow herbs for a good yield, then demonstrate various methods for preserving herbs by drying or freezing, and making herb vinegars, herb oils and herb butters. As she goes along she will give lots of tips on using fresh herbs in cooking. Food samples will be provided.

BIO

Yvonne is a recipe developer, cooking demonstrator and a part-time college nutrition professor; living in Mississauga. She has worked with major food companies and food marketing boards such as eggs, mushrooms, turkey and apples and is a Foodland Ontario television spokesperson and regular contributor to Foodland Ontario recipes.

Author of 5 cookbooks, including her new book: Culinary Herbs – Grow. Preserve. Cook!

She is also a 6-time Grand Champion Jam and Jelly Maker at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, and author of 250 Home Preserving Favorites. She is known to put herbs in her jams and jellies too! (Some of these recipes are in her new cookbook, such as her Rosemary Apple Cider Jelly.)

After the talk, Yvonne will be selling and signing copies her book Culinary Herbs $30 cash, cheque or money transfer acceptable.