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Nov

2009

Gimme Da Loot, Gimme Da Loot

I’ll be honest.

As much as I love handmade, lovingly prepared artisanal products, I generally opt out of the giant twice-a-year One Of A Kind Show And Sale, for a variety of reasons.

1) The shows can get really cramped and uncomfortable and I despise that slow, laboured crawl that it takes to navigate them

2) People can get really rude and pushy over this kind of original stuff

3) I find a lot of what’s on offer to be prohibitively expensive

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Tags: Beetroot Delights, Brook's Delectable Chocolate, Bruce County Nut & Fudge, condiments, Cook's Gourmet, Forbes Wild Foods, Malcolm Jolley, Mr Vinegar, One Of A Kind Show, Purveyors, Rootham's Gourmet, vinegar
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Aug

2009

One Of The Best Parts Of Summer

Like most people, summer is my favourite time of year.

But the moment I look forward to most is the inevitable tomato boon that starts to overtake the garden during the first few weeks of August. This year my own garden has not yet produced more than a half dozen ripe cherry tomatoes, but the farmer’s market has been a great source for supplementing my growing tomato desire. Of course, once you have those perfect globular specimens, there’s always the question of what to make with them?

I used to think I had a clear winner when it came to the best use of a ripe summer tomato, but then I met the Everyman who introduced me to the joys of a toasted tomato sandwich. My original answer would have been a batch of my mother’s succulent and tangy bruschetta, but now there are Caprese salads to nosh (improved by the recent discovery via Malcolm Jolley of a local producer of bufala mozzarella), tomato consommés to savour (thanks to Lucien for that revelation), mini tomatoes to pop into your mouth whole and enjoy like candy, and my quick and easy, simplified version of a primavera/carbonera pasta.

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Tags: Cooking, Good Food Revelation, Lucien, Malcolm Jolley, pasta, peas, Recipes, Restaurants, tomatoes
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