I was having a lunch interview today with Ian Sorbie, president and owner of the Toronto restaurant chain Il Fornello. The restaurant has made a huge effort to go local in the past year. They feature an all-Ontario menu and are in the process of sourcing all their arugola and, soon-to-be, all their canned tomatoes [...]
Read full post...For my birthday this week, my dad gave me the ultimate locavore gift: a solar food dryer he’d made himself. Wow! I’ve wanted a solar food dryer for a long, long time (not quite as long as I’ve wanted a solar cooker). How cool it would be to harvest the local bounty of the Canadian [...]
Read full post...Just got a comment from a reader in the UK, I believe, who suggests that the little red currant stems could be strained off after cooking, rather than the time consuming process of picking them off the raw berries by hand.
Has anyone ever boiled red currants with their stems? Does it change the flavour? I’d love [...]
Last night I called my dad who lately has been spending most of his time in his organic vegetable garden on my parents’ farm. He’s been harvesting his green beans, chard, beets, fresh potatoes, carrots, artichoke, zucchini, and more, all under the watchful eye of a groundhog who lives (actually, there are at least three [...]
Read full post...We recently spent some time in Kincardine, Ontario in a part of the province where dairy farms abound. I was hanging out with my family, having an ice cream cone at a highway-side shop, when the milk truck pulled in. Not wanting to lose the opportunity to learn something about how milk is collected in [...]
Read full post...After posting about how we should embrace the red currant, I went downstairs and made some red currant mousse. It turned out to be quite pink and quite good–a very unusual taste of tartness and tang, sweet and perfumy.
Here’s what I did:
I cooked the red currants with some sugar for about 15 minutes. When they [...]