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Sicilian Orange and Watercress Salad

March 11, 2015 by Dale 1 Comment

Sicilian Orange Salad with Watercress

As the aphorism goes, when life throws you lemons, make lemonade — but when Sicilians give you oranges, make a salad. For the past few months, since Ben’s passing, I’ve largely immersed myself in my writing. There has been the occasional burst of  photography, but mostly I’ve been immersed in my writing. That’s because with…

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Filed Under: Mediterranean, Recipes, Salad Tagged With: blood orange, Italian, olive, Olive Oil, orange, Salad, Sicily, tarocco, watercress

Fettuccine Carbonara with Grilled Garlic Scape Pesto

July 17, 2014 by Dale 4 Comments

To reveal the second mystery from yesterday’s post is to reveal that what you saw were garlic “scapes” aka the ‘spring’ shoots of the garlic plant. Where garlic is commercially cultivated, these fine morsels are often just clipped and discarded and never see the market. The scape is the young stem and budding “flower” of…

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Filed Under: CSA, Eats, Mains, Mediterranean, Pasta, Recipes Tagged With: Bacon, Carbonara, Cooking, Cream, CSA, CSA Mystery, dinner, fettuccine, food, Garlic, Garlic shoot, Italian, Pasta, pasta recipe, Pesto, Recipe, Scape, Scape Pesto

Creamy Polenta with Parmesan

April 29, 2014 by Dale Leave a Comment

I dare say, if you love corn, you should certainly love polenta. I know it has a consistency that will put some people off, but if prepared well, the consistency is creamy and divine. Polenta is truly “peasant” food — but I love peasant food; most people do. When someone describes their favourite “comfort food,”…

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Filed Under: Eats, Gluten-Free, Mediterranean, Recipes, Side Dish Tagged With: comfort food, Cooking, corn, cornmeal, creamy, easy, food, Gluten-Free, holiday, Italian, Osso Buco, parmesan, Parmigiano Reggiano, peasant food, polenta, Recipe, side dish, slow food

Giordano Barbera D’asti (2007)

April 22, 2014 by Dale 1 Comment

I had a number of options in choosing what to pair with my osso buco. I did think local … really, I did. But in the end, I went to the terroir of the dish, I went to Northern Italy, and I selected from my cellar a wine that’s been sitting there for about 5…

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Filed Under: Red, Wine Reviews Tagged With: affordable, Barbera, Barbera d'asti, black cherry, cellar, cherry, DOC, Italian, Italy, Lombardy, Osso Buco, red wine, tanin, wine, wine review

Osso Buco

April 20, 2014 by Dale 3 Comments

There are few dishes in the world that I love as much as osso buco which, purely translated, is “hole in the bone.” I love it for the marriage of all its flavours into a comforting, richness. I love the philosophy of this dish. It is “slow food” done to perfection. While this classic Italian…

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Filed Under: Eats, Gluten-Free, Italian, Mains, Mediterranean, Recipes, Stew, Veal Tagged With: Barbera, bone, bone-in, braise, comfort food, Cooking, dinner, Easter, easy, feast, fennel, food, Gluten-Free, gremolata, holiday, Italian, marrow, mirepoix, Northern Italy, Osso Buco, Piedmont, polenta, Recipe, roasted garlic, slow food, veal, veal shank, wine

Macaroni and Six-Cheeses … with pancetta crumble

April 16, 2014 by Dale Leave a Comment

Mac and Cheese (plated)

If there was a food equivalent of original sin, I think I’ve discovered it. Long have I had the notion of creating a gourmet version of a childhood comfort food so many of us grew up on … create something very very adult. The inspiration for this comes from watching Gordon Ramsay several years ago challenge his…

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Filed Under: Eats, Friday Nights, Fusion, Gluten-Free, Mains, Pasta, Recipes Tagged With: adult, bake, cheddar, Cheese, Cheese Curds, comfort food, fondue, fontina, friday night, Gluten-Free, GoGo Quinoa, Gruyere, Italian, local, Mac and Cheese, macaroni, Oka, Pancetta, parmesan, Parmigiano Reggiano, Pasta, Recipe, St-Albert Cheese, wine

Spaghetti and Meatballs

December 23, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

Who doesn’t love Lady and Tramp? What kid doesn’t enjoy slurping spaghetti? Who doesn’t love a meatball (spicy or not)? With all due love to vegetarians in my life, I gave you my my almost vegan tourtière — now, this is my chance to indulge the carnivore in me … and the Italian in me which I’m…

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Filed Under: Eats, Gluten-Free, Italian, Mains, Mediterranean, Pasta, Recipes Tagged With: children food, comfort food, Cooking, dinner, food, Friday night dinner, Gluten-Free, Ground beef, ground pork, Italian, Italy, marinara sauce, meatballs, Negramarro, Recipe, romantic, spaghetti, spaghetti and meatballs, tomato, wine

Rum-Kabocha (Pumpkin) Risotto

November 10, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

Risotto is comfort food. Yes, you can make “healthy” versions of it as I did when I developed my Tuscan Kale Risotto earlier this summer. However, risotto is best prepared when it can just be, let its warm, sensuous, snuggling personality reach out, when it can comfort the soul and light a warm fire in…

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Filed Under: CSA, Eats, Fusion, Gluten-Free, Italian, Mains, Mediterranean, Recipes Tagged With: arborio rice, chicken stock, comfort food, Cooking, CSA, dinner, Italian, Japanese pumpkin, kabacha squash, Pumpkin, Recipe, risotto, risotto recipes, roasted squash, rum, Squash, sweet mama squash, Waratah Downs Organic Farm, wine, Yalumba Shiraz-Viognier

Marinara Sauce … from harvest to scratch

November 5, 2013 by Dale 2 Comments

There is making things from scratch … and then there is making them from harvest to jar or, in my case, from seed to jar. And as satisfying as all my preserves have been, there was nothing more satisfying than making my own marinara sauce with the tomatoes I grew myself. While the recipe that…

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Filed Under: Eats, Gluten-Free, Italian, Mediterranean, Preserves, Recipes Tagged With: basil, canning, Cooking, cooking from scratch, freeze tomato, Fresh Tomato, garden, Gluten-Free, harvest, home cooking, Italian, Marinara, marinara sauce, preserves, pressure canner, Recipe, Roma tomatoes, tomato, tomato sauce, vegetarian

Minestrone with Chard and Prosciutto

September 28, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

My CSA shares have given me three challenges related to the regularity and volume of certain bounties: zucchini, kale, and chard. The first of these veggies I’ve managed very well; the kale is getting used as well, but with less imagination; the chard, however, has been a harder test. Zucchini is ‘easy’ by comparison because…

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Filed Under: CSA, Eats, Gluten-Free, Italian, Mediterranean, Recipes, Soup Tagged With: beans, chicken stock, Cooking, CSA, food, ham, Italian, Mediterranean, minestrone, parmesan, prosciutto, Recipe, Soup

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