Another food column listen later catchup!
This time, it's my adventures at the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative, for Food Day Canada.
So much fun with this one
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Food in jars. The strawberry jams were Vibrant jardinière--I think the brine turned hot pink from the purple carrots. Hot dog relish and a jar of cucumber chunks in the leftover brine.
Used local rainbow carrots for the jardinière this year. They're cut into fat coins -- yellow, red, orange. The purple carrots' COLOUR GOES SO DEEP and then centres as yellow or mustard. Was surprised by how deep the purple goes as the ones at big grocer is only millimetres thin.
One of my gigantic mixing bowls filled with prepped veg for the relish. This is the only time I wish I had a food processor. Peppers and cucumbers done by hand. Was too tired to do 1kg of onions by hand last night, so I pureed them in the blender. Curious if I'll taste the difference (will know in a month, after it cures properly).
Spent #FoodDayCanada weekend canning. Yday: jardinière (with leftover brine for cucumber chunks). Today it's relish and garlic dills (not done yet). Local rainbow carrots for the j; the relish ingredients before turning over for the overnight cure. Deets in alt-text.
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Thank you to everyone who works to produce, process and sell the great Canadian produced food we enjoy everyday! Happy Canada Food Day! #fooddaycanada #food #agriculture #cdnag #westcdnag
The Auction also sells bouquets of fresh cut flowers. An overhead shot of those bunches, with clipboards with lot info.
half bushes of strawberries in their punnets, sit on a dolly, next to cabbages, corn, garlic, and other produce.
Lots at the auction, before the sale: baskets of potatoes, half bushels of spring onions, red onions, strawberries, corn, blueberries and so much more.
Bill Pate from Brantford's Brantwood Farms leans on the handle of a dolly. He's in a Hawaiian Shirt with a black ballcap with a red Canadian maple leave on it. In the brim he's put a small Canadian flag and there's a hand written sign that says "buy Canadian" on it. He's so much fun.
I got to do something I'd been wanting to do for ~15 yrs: a sale day at the Elmira Produce Auction Coop!
It's where local, small growers sell their crops to buyers across Ontario..
SO MUCH FUN!
I wrote about it for my #FoodDayCanada column!
#Foodsky #EatLocal
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Happy Food Day Canada! There has never been a better time to buy, prepare and feast on Canadian grown or made food. I will be celebrating in the best way possible - shopping at a farmers market this morning, followed by an afternoon noshing thru the Edmonton Heritage Festival! #FoodDayCanada #yeg
Food Day Canada recognizes Canadian food from farm to table, and those who produce and prepare it. Join in on the celebration by shopping, cooking, and dining Canadian. #FoodDayCanada
Learn more: fooddaycanada.ca
08/02/2025 is Food Day Canada 🇨🇦, Paratroopers' Day 🪂🇷🇺, National Ice Cream Sandwich Day 🇺🇸, National Coloring Book Day 🇺🇸, Harriet Quimby Day 👩✈️🇺🇸, Rap Music Day 🇺🇸, National Mustard Day 🇺🇸 #fooddaycanada #paratroopersday #nationalicecreamsandwichday #nationalcoloringbookday #harrietquimbyday #rapmusicday
A half bushel of pickling cucumbers in my back seat.
My trolley: a half-bushel of pickling cucumbers, some courgettes, rainbow carrots, green and yellow beans, baskets of blueberries and peaches, a gorgeous cauliflower, dill, and a bag of mushrooms.
Guess who’ll be jamming and pickling this weekend?
If you heard me this morning, you know it’s #FoodDayCanada weekend. After the broadcast, I went up to Herrle’s and got a trolley of fresh, local/Ontario fruits and veggies.
#WaterlooRegion #FoodSky #GoodThingsGrowInOntario
White text on a purple background that reads: Local food builds healthy communities. Thriving communities and just, equitable health systems are linked. Your budget is a statement of your values. #HealthCare #FoodDayCanada There is an image of three people chopping vegetables together in the top corner.
August 2 is #FoodDayCanada & we're celebrating #localfood and all who put local ingredients on our plates!
When #healthcare uses its purchasing power to prioritize local food, it's a win for patients, disease prevention, local economies, & communities. 🍏
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Photograph of several people looking at exhibit cases.
Photograph of Jeff Stewart talking to viewers of the Cold War food cultures exhibit.
Photograph of people in a room and a screen showing the first slide of a presentation about the University of Guelph Culinary Collections.
A photograph of a display case containing artifacts and cookbooks accompanied by a large panel with descriptive text.
Such a fun morning with @arrellfoodinst.bsky.social talking about #FoodDayCanada & how we’re preserving Canadian food history at @uofguelph.bsky.social @uguelphhist.bsky.social. Thanks to the attendees for coming out & touring our new Cold War food cultures exhibit in @uofglibrary.bsky.social.
Some of the filling ingredients (granted, I was cooking as I went in this improvised recipe. Canadian sourced ingredients: coriander leaf, onions, local tomatoes when into the caned puree, and ground bison from Oakridge Acres (Ayr).
Four samosa frying in the kadai. My folding technique needs work (haha) but they are burnished and blistered. Pastry features Canadian wheat and sunflower oil.
Cooked samosas on a handmade sea blue and green tapas dish with swirly patterns. The samosas are burnished and bubbly. The open one shows the filling of meat and potatoes (from my friend's farm in Plattsville). In the distance is a dish with coriander-mint chutney and tamarind-date chutney.
Each year, I make a dish specifically for #FoodDayCanada.
For the past few years, I consciously showcased foods by people who've made Canada their home.
This year, it's a 3rd culture dish: bison samosas. Details in alt text.
#Canada #CanadianFood #Foodways #Mastonom #Food #inmykitchen #KeralaFood
Spinach borek - an oval bread with spinach peeping through translucent, sometimes burnished layers. handmade by a local Bosnian family who've set themselves up in business. Picked this up at the Turkish grocers.
My hand, holding a waffle cone of banana split ice cream. The ice cream is a pale yellow, streaked with chocolate and strawberry. in the backgground is a mural (art-deco meets 1950s art style, in sherbet colours of yellow, blue, pink, tangerine, of ice cream and its ingredients). My nales are polished fuchsia.
Stopped off at Vincenzo's (Waterloo)and they had my favourite Pingue Porchetta (fr. Niagara) back in stock, so picked that up with Canadian brie and the shop's multigrained mini ciabatta. Turned it into a sandwich (in progress, here), A light slathering of mustard on one piece of ciabatta, and the other slice is layered with the cheese, meat, and toppeed with my homemade Bengali-spiced blueberry chutney. We can see the rest of the cheese, an extra slice (to finish the sandwich) and the pot of chutney on the cutting board).
Back bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich from Bauer Bakery. The sandwich is in a croissant bun.
And my own #FoodDayCanada graze.
Some bought from local independents, some made with Canadian or local ingredients. It talks to the breadth of what Canadian food is.
Next post in the thread will have my Food Day Canada dish :)
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Street scene of the launch. People milling about, eating, talking. Lots of white tent tops where the food was dished out. In the background are the main drag's building showing old Ontario architecture with some Scottish influence.
Pickerel Ceviche from R&D Sociale - Six servings as seen from above. The cups are filled with pinks, yellows greens, and reds. Clatters of tortilla chips, on coriander leaf nearby.
View of the Elora Mill (now a restaurant/hotel), from the pedestian bridge. The shoreline is green and leafy with trees and the water is still, reflecting the building and greenery.
And the last of my #FoodDayCanada launch party pics!
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Canadian celebrity chef, Michael Smith, shucking oysters a the coast-to-coast oyster bar.
Lamb Sujuk from The Friendly Society. A round lamb patty on toum (garlic sauce) on a tiny pita. On top is a bright red cherry tomato -- it's all skewered by a wooden pick The sujuk is Armenian style--i'd been looking forward to this all day and was not disappointed :)
Nanaimo Creme Cold Brew from Lost + Found Café. The day started with torrential rains and ended in stiflling heat and humidity. I looked like a wet cat in a floral table cloth. This drink saved this Jasmine from wilting.
Some of the freshly-shucked oysters from the coast-to-coast oyster bar. The range of flavours was something. True terroir (or whatever the water equivalent is :)
More #FoodDayCanada Launch party pics!
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Grilled Flatiron Steak and Corn from The Badley. Love the blushing pink flesh encased by sear in the slices. The wodge of bright yellow corn cob,
Tuna Tostada from Elora Brewing Company. Cubed raw tuna, likght dressed and topped with a scattering of black and white sesame seeds, on a tostada. A wedge of lime sits nearby and there's a spinklng of tajin in the dish.
Canadian Paella from The Elora Mill. The shot is of the pan being stirred it's a riot of yellow, green, red. Scattered throughout the pan are clams.
Chef Nick Benninger, shucking oysters at the Coast-to-Coast Oyster bar. 5000 oysters, from every oyster producing province were freshly shucked that afternoon.
It's #FoodDayCanada Weekend! (aka Civic Holiday Weekend :))
The launch graze in Elora was on Tues. Loved that it featured what local chefs could do with Canadian ingredients and the global inspirations that reflect who we are as a nation.
Can only share 4 pics per post, so I'll do a short thread
A butcher's trough of Mangalista streaky bacon. More snowy white fat than meat...
IT HAD MY NAME ON IT.
Well, most of my name.
Yes, some came home with me.
#WaterlooRegion #FoodDayCanada #Bacon #Food #Foodsky
For #FoodDayCanada, check out Gilberto Fernandes' review of @activehist.bsky.social's "The Cost of Human Food" digital exhibit.
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À propos to #FoodDayCanada (today!), this week's CBCKW Food Column is about Canada's national fruit, blueberries! Sweet & savoury reccos, plus a recipe for blueberry cinnamon rolls with miso-cream cheese icing (and a video!)
#FoodWriting #WaterlooRegion #Foodways #Recipes
Blueberry-stained recipe pages that are scrawled with notes and corrections to the provided recipe.
Freshly baked blueberry cinnamon rolls, all swirly and splotchy purple.
Iced blueberry cinnamon rolls. A special ingredient has turned the icing a caramel colour.
Blueberries, lemon zest, thyme, a cinnamon stick and a star anise pod in a stainless steel pot, before being cooked down.
Sneak peek: Recipe testing for this week's CBCKW food column.
Love when I try something I've never done before. Love it even more when there are two new-to-me things I get to do.
#FoodWriter #WaterlooRegion #Foodsky #Food #Baking #FoodDayCanada
A bifana cut into two, in its takeaway wrapper, with the cut side of one half visible. Two layers of pork with onions, cheese and peppers in a Portuguese roll. SO TASTY.
I know sandwiches are a thing.
But I am thinking of doing a series of sandwiches...maybe a column on them. We've got some tasty handhelds here.
She says, as she tucks into a bifana.
#Food #Foodsky #PortugueseFood #CanadianFood #FoodDayCanada #Sandwiches #FoodWriter
A swirly slice of cake by a mug with heart shaped latte art. Acros from me is my meeting partner (colleague? new friend?)'s coffee, hand and phone.
Another day of hithering and thithering.
Met up with Jeff Stewart of Food Day Canada to chat about this year's festivities (SO AWESOME). Also talked about so much at Whoopsiedaisy Drinks over a slice tahini-sesame cake and a flat white. Will be back.
#FoodDayCanada #WaterlooRegion #Foodsky
