Layered Horiatiki Salad with Farro & Tzatziki

Layered Horiatiki Salad with Farro & Tzatziki
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This Layered Horiatiki Salad delivers exactly what it promises. The classic Greek salad stacked. This showstopper borrows its format from the legendary Seven-Layer Salad but all the flavors are Greek. The produce on the other hand is local. The tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers found in this towering beauty are grown year-round right here in Ontario’s vast greenhouses. In the summer it’s easy to lose track of the veggies you always have on standby. It’s understandable, there is an abundance of seasonal produce looking its best right now. But you got to give it up for the veg that always has your back. This salad is a monument to the tasty jewels the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers consistently serve up.

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Lemongrass Shrimp Vermicelli Bowls (bún tôm nướng)

Lemongrass Shrimp Vermicelli Bowls (bún tôm nướng)
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No, your eyes do not deceive you, this is another Vietnamese cuisine appreciation post. I can’t stop waxing poetic about its wonderful sense of balance. The marriage of raw and charred, herbaceous and sour, sweet and salty. I just love it so much, I can’t believe I lived my first 25 years without it. But I did, so I will kick these Lemongrass Shrimp Vermicelli Bowls (bún tôm nướng) off with my usual disclaimer. This is not an authentic recipe, this is merely the recipe I have concocted over the past five years of making vermicelli salads or bún in my own home with only YouTube and Google to guide me. All this is to say I am not an expert, just a fangirl.

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Grilled Angel Food Cake w/ Pimm’s Macerated Berries

Grilled Angel Food Cake with Pimm's Macerated Berries
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Canada Day is at our doorstep and boy, does it ever feel like it. Some years Canada Day can be a rainy bummer but this year, at least in my neck of the woods, it’s going to be an absolute stunner of a day. Sunshine, heat, and the high probability of a sunburn – just like the Canada Days of my youth. And to further my current nostalgia, I decided to whip up the perennial Canada Day favorite – Strawberry Shortcake. You got to love it when a good, much-beloved dessert is unintentionally patriotic. Of course, I couldn’t keep it entirely classic because then I wouldn’t be me. So instead I offer this Grilled Angel Food Cake with Pimm’s Macerated Berries.

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Golden Beet Panzanella w/ Sherry Roasted Onions

Golden Beet Panzanella with Sherry Roasted Onions
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Summer is peak salad season. I’m sure nutritionists everywhere would prefer salad didn’t have a season. But in my books, the dead of February really isn’t the time for a salad. Thankfully, we’re nowhere near the dead of February, we’re knocking on the door of prime summertime. And salads always seem to be on the menu, whether they be a leafy side-salad affair or a bread-and-cheese-heavy main event, like this Golden Beet Panzanella. And that really is the beauty of a salad – it can really fit any mealtime role you set out for it. Even dessert if you count Snickers Salad as an actual salad – but for the record, I don’t.

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