Accidental Vegetarian Week

Posted by Maureen and Rob on Nov 21, 2012 in Featured Slider, HM Kitchen, Vegetarian | 1 comment Rob and I  find ourselves eating less meat these days. Not sure we could commit to full time vegetarianism, but we are finding that eating satisfying meatless meals is pretty easy and sacrifice free. When we do include meat, we splurge on high quality, local produce, which has a lower carbon footprint, supports local farmers and tastes better. Every two weeks or so we commit to a meatless menu...
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Cacio e Pepe

Posted by Maureen on Jul 11, 2012 in Featured Slider, HM Kitchen, Vegetarian | 1 comment Another glorious, warm summer day in the Capital city inspires me to make a simple, light pasta for tonight’s dinner on the deck. Something a little creamy, not garlicky and goes with a nice rose. Cacio e Pepe, a dish we first encountered in Mario Batali’s now-closed Enoteca San Marco in Las Vegas, is little more than good quality egg pasta, butter, olive oil, pepper and cheese....
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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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Accidental Vegetarian: Rustic Pasta

Posted by Maureen on Jan 16, 2012 in Featured Slider, HM Kitchen, Local, Vegetarian | 0 comments Eating vegetarian appeals to me on many levels: It’s healthy and lighter generally, and, as an animal lover I do struggle with eating mammals at times. Rob and I consciously buy from local farmers where possible. I want to know where my meat came from, that it was raised with care and an eye to it’s quality of life, and without antibiotics and hormones  But bacon is so damned...
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

Posted by Rob on Oct 10, 2011 in Featured Slider, HM Kitchen, Local | 2 comments As the joke goes, there are only two seasons in Ottawa: Winter and construction season. It’s kind of like that for me – Tomato season and “not tomato season”. During tomato season, I have them for breakfast, sliced on toasted bread, sometimes with cucumber and a little salt and pepper. For lunch and dinner in salads, and quite frankly any other way I can get them....
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