The Mogo Blog

Fall is, as mentioned, an awesome time for seasonal beer, and for soup. But it’s also a great time to try out different booze recipes. No longer is it sangria or chilled white wine season. No! It is now time for hot toddys and ciders. Yum. Here are my five fave recipes for a boozey fall. (Note: these are adapted from recipes I’ve tried over the years.) Hot Toddy The classic rum drink, this one will cure colds and make your night better at the same time. Magical! This version is made extra magi

Jack Frost is about to take another nip at your heels and the best way to fend off the winter sniffles is to get your daily dose of fruits and veggies. That’s easier said than done! It’s tough to find the time each day to cook veggies or eat fruit. That’s where the smoothie comes in; a delicious and nutritious way to get all your daily vitamins and minerals. Here are some easy and delicious breakfast smoothie recipes to help you start your day. Strawberries and yogurt * 4 cups ripe strawberri

This time of year, when you think about recipes and cooking it’s not really all that common to think of Halloween. Thanksgiving, yes, and Christmas, definitely, but Halloween doesn’t really bring to mind any specific ideas about cooking. That is, until now! Last year, I decided to host some friends at my house, because I was at the time living in a house on a street that got a lot of trick or treaters. Most of my friends lived in apartments or areas where kids didn’t come, so the idea was that

Oh hi, cold weather! I’ve missed you! No, seriously. I’ve missed you. Why, you might ask? Well, because SOUP, that’s why! I’m a big fan of soup, and over the last few years I’ve realized that the canned stuff (or the carton stuff) is good but usually a) expensive, and b) chock-full-o-salt. Neither of these are good things (for your wallet or your body), so I went on a bit of a mission last year to become a master of stock. Stock, you see, is the key to soup in the same way that Elvis Costello

One of fall’s joys is the opportunity to pick, eat, can, mash, cook, bake or otherwise enjoy big, red, juicy apples. The globalization of agriculture and food supply means we’ve largely forgotten about the fact that apples are meant to ripen in fall, since you can now get them year round. But fall is—and should be—apple season. A few years ago, a friend of mine took me on a road trip up to the Okanagan Valley in BC for a U-pick experience. We got a short lesson from the orchard master (what an