`Are you both ok with spicy stuff?` This is not a query I typically associate with wine tasting but the smiling man behind the counter had just levied those words at us. Dana and I nodded before receiving our instructions. `Take a good swig of this into your mouth and swirl it around for a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ontario’
Applewood Farm Winery (Stouffville, Ontario)
Posted in Vintners and Brew Masters, tagged apple picking, applewood farm winery, cider, meade, Ontario, ontario fruit wine, Ontario Wine, stawberry picking, stouffville, Toronto 100-mile diet on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Visiting the local Farmer’s Market in Markham
Posted in Farmers, Farms and Markets, tagged 100 mile diet, eat local, eating local, main street markham, markham, markham farmers market, Ontario, Toronto on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dana and I both spent formative years in Markham (we were friends in high school though we became a couple almost 15 years after meeting). Her family has moved to Lindsay, mine has stayed in the place of my youth. We were visiting suburbia this weekend as a launching point to go to (and return [...]
A quiet place to think
Posted in Hunting (General), tagged hunting, huntsville, Ontario on June 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There’s been a lot of text-heavy stories this week – quite the contrast from the previous week which was almost all photos. I wrote a very long introduction to hunting (called confessions of a one-time vegetarian) in February which was an attempt at a balanced discussion of a topic that is disturbing to many. For [...]
Come out to support the KEG – Kawartha Ecological Growers
Posted in Farmers, Farms and Markets, tagged 100 mile toronto, kawartha ecological growers, local food, Ontario, organic farming, Slow Food, Toronto on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This article is indeed about local food and a local group of farmers. The photo`s are local though not from those mentioned. We met Mark at a dinner featuring his food and did not have access to the whole product to snap some shots. That will change in the future… I feel so lucky for [...]
Spring time – tune your FIDDLEHEADS !!!
Posted in Vegetables, tagged 100 mile diet, fiddleheads, how to cook fiddleheads, local food, Ontario, st lawrence market, Toronto on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My Mother (aka Me Mum) is from Nova Scotia. Long cold winters gave way to wet cold springs. Wet cold springs gave themselves to the spring bounty and wild Fiddleheads are a spring tradition of the east coast (and increasingly around the world). These lovely creatures (who got their name after the scroll of a [...]
Blown Away
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged niagara, Ontario, Ontario Tourism, Picton, Prince Edward County, Sandbanks, Trenton, vineyards on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s Sunday night as I write this – still reeling from a 12 hour food odyssey that took Dana and I through some of the most beautiful country we have visited in a long time which was paired with meeting some of the nicest and most passionate foodies we have met a long time. We [...]
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