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This week we've cooked up an eggplant dish that will make eggplant lovers rejoice and hopefully win over some eggplant skeptics! In this recipe, we made eggplant steaks by cutting, scoring and roasting our St. David's eggplants spiced with Zing's Zesti seasoning. Eggplant goes so beautifully with tomatoes and fresh herbs so we paired these steaks with a bright tomato salad made with our Elmira's grape tomatoes, fresh mint, honey, garlic, and red onion, served on a bed of Lundberg Farms lemon Jasmine rice. A perfect plant based dish that celebrates this truly unique vegetable!

Many of you have probably enjoyed some version of Tuscan Chicken before! Tuscan Chicken is usually made with a rich, garlicky cream sauce packed with classic Italian flavors including dried tomatoes, garlic, oregano and basil. This Tuscan Chicken recipe is a super easy one pan meal, perfect for a weekday dinner when you're strapped for time and don't feel like facing a sea of dishes at the end of your meal! This recipe features our VG Meats' chicken breasts, Cookstown dried tomatoes, K2 Milling flour, Golden Dawn butter and our gorgeous Fisherville winter spinach.

There is something so rustic and beautiful about this traditional French pastry! So often with baking, we try to be precise and meticulous in the assembly of our pie shell, cake tiers etc. Galettes let you really lean into the rustic aesthetic and takes the pressure off trying to make your final product look "perfect". A galette is essentially pastry dough folded around some sort of sweet or savoury filling. It is incredibly simple to make and extremely versatile with virtually endless options for flavour pairings, both sweet and savoury. This galette recipe is savoury, featuring a combination of our gourmet grape tomatoes, creamy buratta, garlic, fresh herbs and a balsamic reduction.

This week, we're celebrating our first harvest of forced rhubarb with a new seasonal rendition of one of our most loved recipes! Using the same batter as our crowd favourite Cardamom, Ginger & Blue Plum Coffee Cake, with a few seasonal twists, This Cardamom, Ginger & Rhubarb Upside Down Cake is bursting with Springtime flavour! The fruit and caramel topping (or base!?) of this upside down cake is made with our fresh forced rhubarb and a delicious Rosewood honey caramel spiced with cardamom and hints of orange. A must try!

If you’re looking for an easy AND filling vegetarian dinner idea for Easter supper, you’re going to love these Spiced Eggplant & Quinoa Stuffed Sweet Potatoes! In this recipe, we've made the stuffing using our baby eggplants spiced with cumin, paprika, salt, pepper and tomato paste mixed with our local Quinta quinoa, dried cherries, and chickpeas. Topped with some delicious Celebrity goat cheese, fresh mint and a drizzle of Earth + City's Tahini & Lemon dressing, these stuffed sweet potatoes are a must-try addition to your roster of vegetarian meals!

Ah the humble cabbage! Cabbage is another vegetable that doesn't get the love it deserves in the kitchen. Maybe part of that is because it's a very mild tasting vegetable, or maybe it's simply because it's not the most exciting looking vegetable in the produce aisle. Despite its ho-hum appearance, cabbage is incredibly versatile, and when paired with bold flavours and different preparations, cabbage can be an absolute knockout star of a dish. In this post, you'll find 5 delicious recipes that let cabbage take center stage and will be sure to make you see this often overlooked vegetable in a whole new light!

Stuffed chicken breasts are a great way to switch up your regular chicken breast recipes, adding some extra flavor to your chicken. Stuffing the breast is also a great way to get a nice and moist breast as the stuffing helps retain moisture in chicken. In this recipe, we stuffed our VG Meats chicken breasts with a mixture of our Cookstown organic dried tomatoes, Celebrity goat cheese, August Harvest's garlic and shallots and Niagara Vinegar baco noir balsamic. Served on a bed of creamy garlic and thyme mashed Goldenheart potatoes, this recipe is the perfect dinner for any night of the week!

Thanks to our local farmers and producers, we've really grown a new love and appreciation for a very underrated root veg: the radish. Radishes are often relegated to the role of a garnish or to add a slice of color to store-bought salad mixes but these beauties deserve their own moment in the sun! Radishes are a delicious vegetable that can be eaten raw or added to any number of roasted or stir-fried dishes, where their signature peppery flavor can truly shine. In this post, you'll find 3 different recipes to utilize these beautiful root veggies: Black Radish Chips, Roasted Radish Salad With Feta & Mint, and Quick Pickled Watermelon Radish.

This week's recipe is made with our chef-made frozen fresh Bucatini pasta from Ascari Enoteca! Bucatini pasta is similar to spaghetti but is a thicker noodle with a hollow center to soak up extra sauce! We paired this pasta with a rich tomato, chili, honey and balsamic based sauced that is packed with flavour. Sweet, salty, and slightly spicy, this sauce is perfectly balanced by the delicate and creamy flavour of our Bella Casara by Quality Cheese classic burrata. The result is absolutely divine. Give this pasta recipe a try and let us know your thoughts!

A true marvel, the popover is a delicious bread-like creation that is satisfyingly crispy on the outside, and fluffy and soft on the inside. Made using just a few simple, staple ingredients. All you need to whip up a basic popover recipe are eggs, milk, salt, and flour. Once you've tried these bad boys, they'll be you new go-to side for any meal! We added our Grand Trunk Gruyere-style cheese from Stonetown Cheese and added some fresh organic rosemary to these popovers. The result were these perfectly cheesy popovers with a hint of rosemary that pairs perfectly with the salty and nutty notes of the Grand Trunk cheese but feel free to substitute your favourite herb and cheese combo of choice in this recipe.