Good day, eh, and welcome to the Great White North. I’m Bob, and this is my brother Doug.
Our topic today, is, like, Great Northern beans and some great wild leeks, or ramps.
Don’t be a total hoser and take off without reading the rest of the post! (I promise I’ll stop it now…)
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Baloney!
This is another word that rhymes with macaroni, and expresses my disappointment with my first attempt at homemade macaroni and cheese.
I kinda thought this would be an easy one. I mean, who can’t make macaroni and cheese? If you can make it with bizarre ingredients from a box, you should be able to make it amazing from scratch. That wasn’t quite what happened.
This dish was inspired by the combination of fennel and smokey, spicy sausage.
There’s something about the sweet licorice taste of the fennel, mixed with the salty, spicy, smokey, greasiness of the sausage.
Maybe I should have left out the greasiness part.
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I love it when you find a new ingredient, and it inspires the whole meal. That happened this past weekend, after buying some Red Fife pasta at the St. Lawrence market.
The funny thing is that I wasn’t the one inspired – it was J who started searching for the perfect recipe!
