The Dish: Amazing Tomato Sauce!

Posted by Rob on Mar 26, 2012 in Featured Slider, Merchants, Products | 0 comments In the winter, we buy good canned tomatoes, in whole and crushed and sauce form because good, fresh tomatoes are nowhere to be found. Recently in a local gourmet store, we happened upon a small, stubby bottle of cherry tomato sauce, made in Italy by Agromonte. It looked just like the old stubby beer bottles and it even had a pop top. We opened it several weeks later to make pizza and...
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Inspiration 2: Perogies

Posted by Rob on Dec 21, 2011 in Featured Slider, HM Kitchen, Merchants | 0 comments For the second time in as many visits, a trip to Piggy Market changed our dinner plans on the spot.
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Locavore Artisan Food Fair

Posted by Rob on Dec 10, 2011 in Editorials, Featured Slider, Local, Merchants | 0 comments On a sunny, but chilly December morning Maureen and I headed to the Locavore Artisan Food Market at Memorial Hall in New Edinburgh. Located in a tiny community centre, the room was brimming with local food vendors and patrons, all there to celebrate our local food business and the local food movement. Cookies, salsas, ice creams, breads, spreads, mustards, sauces, jams, pies, spices, cakes, full...
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Flank Steak: Inspiration Strikes!

Posted by Rob on Nov 30, 2011 in Featured Slider, HM Kitchen, Merchants | 0 comments When we went to visit the newly re-opened Piggy market (see previous post), we weren’t sure what to expect. We knew that the intention was to re-open as a craft butcher, along with  lovely artisan charcuterie and locally sourced foods that we love, but when we spied the quality of the meat on display, we were thrilled. Upon seeing a gorgeous flank steak, whatever plans we had for dinner...
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Piggy Market 2.0!

Posted by Maureen on Nov 27, 2011 in Featured Slider, HM Kitchen, Local, Merchants, Products | 1 comment The new and even better Piggy Market re-opened November 12th as an artisan delicatessen and craft butcher shop. I dropped in this week for a quick chat with Dave Neil, co-owner of Piggy. He explained that craft butcher is an Irish designation for meat that is hung to age not cryovaced. The new butchery offers custom cutting of local beef (O’Brien Farms) and Ontario pork as well as heritage...
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Pascale’s Haute Chocolat

Posted by Maureen on Nov 23, 2011 in Featured Slider, Local, Merchants, Products | 1 comment By now most of us in Ottawa are familiar with Pascale‘s wonderful ice cream creations. Most of us have had the pleasure of her truly inspired flavours at a local restaurant (Whalesbone, Allium, SmoQue Shack, Arc) or snagged a pint of creamy goodness at the Farmer’s Market at Lansdowne or Piggy Market. This weekend on our weekly trek to Piggy (recently renovated and expanded. –...
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