Fresh Tomato Tart

This beautiful Fresh Tomato Tart made with perfectly seasoned fresh tomatoes and crispy puff pastry, celebrating the best of the season. It was a great year in the Nutmeg Disrupted Garden. I moved to the country at the end of June and had a nice big garden for the first time in a long time.…

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Pickled Radish Seed Pods

radish flowers

These Pickled Radish Seed Pods will become a pantry staple. Record Breaking Rain It has been the summer of rain. We broke a 50-year moisture record this year which, for a few reasons is great. The spring was met with many forest fires. Fire bans went up very early in the season, the moisture was…

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Kale & Shallot Phyllo Pizza

Finished Kale and Shallot Phyllo Pizza

This Kale & Shallot Phyllo Pizza is a unique twist on pizza using fresh produce. I handle 1000’s of pounds of fresh produce every week. It is a food lovers dream and I am loving my job. It has inspired my use of fresh fruits and vegetables even more then I thought possible. My greatest…

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Lentil Mushroom Pate

This Lentil Mushroom Pate has incredible flavour featuring Canadian Lentils. Looking for an interesting appetizer for the Canadian Lentils contest I wanted to do something very different. The earthiness of mushrooms seemed like a natural paring with lentils, some shallots garlic and thyme with a hit of lemon was the perfect balance. It felt like…

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Grilled Vegetable Salad

This Grilled Vegetable Salad has incredible flavour featuring the best of the season. For the first trial run on my new Char-Broil stainless grill I went with something I don’t cook every day and a fabulous Spring grilling dish. Shish kabobs! The combination of beef and vegetables is absolute perfection. I love shish kabobs, but…

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