- Growing Close to Home
This week edition of Monday Magazine has a great article on urban community gardens. They profile caretakers, Angela Moran and Jennifer Freeman, of Up From the Ashes
CityFarm, which occupies just over a quarter of an acre in the southwest corner of Fernwood.
- Pizza Margherita
Pizza Margherita is becoming a regular favourite at our house. The basic sauce consists of fresh tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Topped with mozzarella, parmesan, field mushrooms and fresh basil from our garden. I find not adding any grease producing meat as topping makes the cheese brown earlier than it should so to fix that drizzle a little olive oil on top of the pie before putting it in the oven.
- The Complete Thomas Keller
The Complete Keller: The French Laundry Cookbook & Bouchon
I’ve yet to take on the task of any Keller recipes but I have leafed through both The French Laundry Cookbook and Bouchon and they are stunning books.
- Bacon Scarf
Red and white scarf resembling marbled fat. On the scarfs reverse side, the colours are inverted making it a leaner cut of bacon. $35 from Shopsin’s General Store.
I love bacon. Salty, smoked, striped with marvelous fat. Doesn’t get much better than that. Bacon’s just one of those things that makes everything taste better, like melted cheese, and according to Masako, soy sauce, but I tend to disagree with that one.
- Bookmarks for July 26th
These are my links for July 26th:
- Texas Fried Okra - I’m growing orka in the garden this year so this sounds good.
- Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less - New York Times -
- $1 Kitchen Secrets: Ten Herbs And Spices That Will Make Simple Foods Pop -
- The Seattle Times: Food & wine: When picky eating doesn’t stop at 5 ? or even 55 - I’ve always concidered myself a somewhat picky eater, but compaired to these guys…
