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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Penne & Red Pepper Sauce

Posted by Heather on Oct 3, 2011 in Featured Slider, Guest Blogger, HM Kitchen | 2 comments Penne with red pepper sauce is “what I make” – penne pasta with a creamy and flavorful roasted red pepper sauce. It’s made frequently in our apartment and even served to company on occasion. This is another one of my favourite recipes that my mom made often. I am known to quadruple the recipe for a much saucier pasta experience: just add three more of everything. The ground almonds...
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RT9: Backwoods Tennesee Cajun

Posted by Rob and Maureen on Sep 4, 2011 in Featured Slider, Restaurants, Road Trip, Travel | 2 comments We are up early this last day we are to spend in Nashville, so that we can head into the pretty little town of Franklin for breakfast and to explore a little. We are breakfasting today at Merridee’s Breadbasket. It is a very busy place on a Saturday. The atmosphere is warm and homey with blue-checked oilcloth covering the tables, rustic worn oak floors, brick walls and exposed rafters. We...
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