Dinner at Tutti Matti
A few weeks ago, Chef Alida Solomon from Tutti Matti gave a cooking demo at our local St. Andrew’s Market, where she cooked baby heirloom tomatoes with garlic, olive oil, salt and fresh basil to make a delicious sauce for pasta. The fates conspired against getting a large pot of water to the boil that [...]
Hungry geek presentation
Here’s the video to go with the slides from my previous post: Ignite T.O. Sandy Kemsley -The Hungry Geek from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo.
Promoting a community market with social media
Last night, I was invited to give a presentation at Ignite! Toronto, part of O’Reilly’s Ignite! series, in which each presenter has 5 minutes to present their 20 slides, and the slides advance automatically every 15 seconds. In a complete left turn from my usual enterprise-y topics, I presented on how I am using social [...]
Market Flavours: Red Cabbage with Red Onions and Peaches
I obviously made a tactical error last week by publishing the stuffed zucchini blossoms experience; this week, Bosco Farms was sold out of zucchini blossoms before I made it over to his market stand. Next week, I’ll be faster off the mark. I did, however, find a fresh little red cabbage and some red onions [...]
GNO with Pat, Gail, Julie & Julia
Last night was a GNO – Girls’ Night Out – with my friends Pat and Gail. We had plenty to celebrate: Gail’s birthday was just past, Pat’s divorce just came through, and we realized that we all met on a day just about 30 years ago when we lived in the same university residence. We [...]
Tomato Crush with Chef Alida at St. Andrew’s Market
July 25th was the first of our events at the Historic St. Andrew’s MyMarket: a demonstration of three crostini recipes by chefs from George Brown College. This Saturday, August 8th, we’ll be hosting Chef Alida Solomon from Tutti Matti as she presents a Tuscan spin on what to do with the wonderful tomatoes available at [...]
Market Photos
A lot of us have been taking photos of the St. Andrew’s MyMarket since it opened in June, and shared them on a Flickr pool: If you have your own, upload them to your Flickr account, join the pool, and add your photos – we’d love to see them.
Market Flavours: Zucchini Blossoms
I’ve only cooked zucchini blossoms once before, when I was in cooking school in Tuscany about 10 years ago for my Best Vacation Ever; there, we inserted a leaf of sage and (optionally) an anchovy into each flower, dipped them in a light egg batter, and deep-friend them. Yum. Fresh squash and zucchini blossoms have [...]
Market Flavours: Tomatoes and Basil to create a Caprese Salad
Planning to attend a “long lunch” at my friend Pat’s place yesterday on the Sunday afternoon of a long weekend, I decided to take along a caprese salad; or rather, to take along the makings of the salad and create it there. I picked up plum/Roma tomatoes and fresh basil from Bosco Farms at the [...]
Fun with vegetables: Super Mario Mushrooms
Even if you’re eating your vegetables in their simple raw form when you take them home from the market, you can always have a little fun in the presentation: here’s a set of photos showing step-by-step instructions for turning a radish into the Super Mushroom from Super Mario: Check out her photostream for many other [...]
