Cooking at Home

I really enjoyed our four fabulous days in Montreal with the great variety of food and wine the city has to offer. At the same time I missed cooking! In preparation for Thursday night dinner I picked up my weekly meat and veggie box from Alex and Virginie at Wind Whipped Farm (http://www.windwhippedfarm.com/) . They are an amazing couple who have partnered with other local farmers who supply lamb, chicken and pork for the meat portion of the box program. The variety and quality of the veggies are always excellent. Dinner started with grilled hearts of romaine then the main course featured a smoked chicken from Stillmeadow Farm (http://www.stillmeadowfarm.ca/).

The grilled hearts of romaine were topped with oven roasted roma tomatoes from Glanford Greenhouses, croutons and Caesar salad dressing, heavy on anchovies and capers. Grilled romaine is always a nice start to a summer BBQ menu!

This beautiful local organic chicken was rotiserried on low heat while we smoked it with cherry wood chips. Wind Whipped Farm provided first of season red beets, served on top of their wilted greens, steamed new purple potatoes, and a sauté of baby zucchini, snow peas and DiMaggio onion tops.


We are so lucky to have so many great people providing top quality local ingredients for our table. They are all passionate about local, sustainable food supply for local residents and restaurants. In the coming weeks I will share with you some of these great local restaurants and their amazing food!