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ICYMI: you can listen to my latest food column online! On Friday, it was all about tea and my chat with one of Canada's first certified tea sommeliers! Timely, too, as tomorrow's International Tea Day!
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This week, I brewed up something tasty for the CBCKW food column!
Stratford’s Karen Hartwick is one of Canada’s first certified tea sommeliers! For more than 20 years, she’s been sharing her passion for, introducing people to, and blending teas at her tea bar, Tea Leaves. We talked about her journey, the different categories, ways to pair tea with food.
#LocalFood #SMBs #PerthCounty #WaterlooRegion #Tea #Mastonom
ICYMI: My latest radio column about Jacob Wilkinson and his Kitchener-based hot sauce company, Blowing Smoke is up!
You can listen here : https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-104-the-morning-edition-k-w/clip/16145299-how-local-hot-sauce-maker-creates-fiery-recipes
When a chef I trust pulled me aside to tell me about someone who's fighting the odds to start a hot sauce company, I took notice. Jacob Wilkinson, who is visually impaired, turned a pandemic project into Blowing Smoke, featuring Ontario-grown produce with fantastic names like Devil’s Night and Yellow Snow.
Am so honoured he let me tell his story.
#EatLocal #WaterlooRegion #Entrepreneur #VisuallyImpaired #Accessiblity #SMB #Mastonom #Food
Monday is Cinco de Mayo! Lord of the Tacos' Chef Eduardo Perez talked about some delicious Mexican dishes that I found here in KW!
(And, yes, he's doing a Lord of the Tacos pop-up at TWB Brewing tonight!)
#EatLocal #MexicanFood #CincoDeMayo #Mastonom #Food #Restaurants
Today's column was about Mexican foods and the shout-out was for Chef Eduardo Perez's pop-up at TWB tonight & tomorrow night. Ran over to get his Cochinita Pibil tacos with beans & rice for dinner. SO GOOD.
(Curtido from America Latina was in the fridge)
Was up until 2:30 am watching exln results. SO TIRED but needed to do daughterly duties, ran their errands.
Also, yesterday's stress baking produced this lemon poppyseed cake w/ cream cheese icing. It went to my lovely accountant to sustain his team in these last 2 tax filing days.
It may be end of term, but for some Conestoga hospitality and culinary students, the training continues! I spoke with Dux Donyll Menil, Sanskruti Patil, and Emilie Duffin (and some of their profs) about training for the Skills Ontario Competition
Broadcast days are early days for me. And today was jam-packed before I could return home. In my comfies now, with churros from Mi Tienda Latina and a cup of coffee.
No food column this week! Until the Easter Bunny hops on by, here are pics from this week's capstone by Conestoga College's culinary students. Loved the creativity they brought to the global flavours theme, incl rendang terrine, okonomiyaki-inspired danish, and a (sweet) cucumber sandwich entremet. The kids are alright.
Today's kitchening:
Blueberry Muffins (from Nigella's HTBADG)
Cullen Skink...added the bacon. Because bacon.
Since so many of us are choosing Canadian and local, maybe it's time to look at Ontario wines? Chatted with a couple of local wine experts and got some ideas about some ideas beyond what's on LCBO shelves.
#BuyLocal #Wines #OntarioWines #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #Food #Mastonom
It’s my first columnaversary as CBC-KW’s food columnist! What better way to celebrate a year of exploring local foods than with maple syrup? Talked about terroir, this year’s harvest, and there’s a Salted Guinness Maple Caramel Syrup recipe that’s mighty good on ice cream!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/maple-syrup-season-jasmine-mangalaseril-1.7502007
These arrived the other day! Such a great family and story.
Another Henry Moore potato from my potato pusher.
After washing it, I thought it looked like a turtle, paddling. After peeling, it looks like a turtle, swimming to the surface.
I shall call it "Spud, Rising to the Surface"
A bit of local love: I ran errands after the broadcast and wandered into Humble Lotus for a catch-up. I said "I'm hungry." Jared made me this: tuna, crab, torched jalapeno, avocado, cucumber, spicy-sweet sauce, sprouts. They called it "The Jasmine."
So good.
#Food #Sushi #Mastonom #WaterlooRegion #EatLocal
So good.
#Food #Sushi #Mastonom #WaterlooRegion #EatLocal
Beef and Guinness Stew has finished blurbling. Now, letting it rest for tomorrow. Because stew tastes better the next day.
Pi Day is one day, but pie can be had every day! My latest food column is up, along with some tasty handheld pies available in town!
Took Cardamummy to an appt & she wanted a sweet afterwards. Funny how Aura-La was on the route home!
One cream cookie to split.
The lodger and I will have carrot cakes for dessert.
And that poor orange cardamom babka was crying because it was all alone, so I rescued it.
Fresh from the oven: Blueberry-studded banana bread (tweaked Nigella's recipe)