Tasty Tangents

Saturday night was a trip to London’s Wine and Food Show to sample some delicious treats with friends. We started with some Ontario pear cider from Twin Pines Orchard and Cider House, yum. Then we managed to taste a whole bunch of local delicacies, from sausage and ham on sweet potato scones by Farmgate Markets, [...]

It’s tomato season…finally!
Everyone in southern Ontario knows it’s been a wet and chilly summer up until the last week or so. That’s meant no early August garden tomatoes, sigh. But the big red wonders finally seem to be here, and I can’t help but marvel at the night and day difference between the imports and [...]

Asparagus, fiddleheads, some lettuce, radishes, green onions and spinach are all spring vegetables that you can likely pick up at the grocery store or local farmers market these days. And the bonus is they will count towards your quota in becoming a locavore, or someone who eats locally grown food. (I just read the term [...]