it’s not too soon to order your easter ham
Looking for a delicious local ham for your Easter table? Meadowcreek Farms offers an Easter Box and Easter hams, boneless and bone-in.
Meuwly’s will have their delicious boneless smoked honey ham again this year.
Irvings Farm Fresh has a variety of hams available—order online or visit them at the Old Strathcona, Bountiful and Salisbury Farmers Markets.
Meuwly’s delicious ham
learn more about french red wine with somm stacey jo strombecky
Headed to France? Or just want to expand your knowledge? Sommelier Stacey Jo Strombecky knows her way around wine. She will take you through four major French wine regions, tasting and talking about differences in vinification, viticulture and history. The classes promise to be entertaining and educational, and make it much easier and fun to shop for wine or order in a restaurant. Available both online and in-store (limited seating), at Color de Vino (9606 82 Avenue),8pm, four Wednesdays (March 22 and 29; April 5 and 12). Tix: $149.99/p++ in store, or online classes.
bagels and ice cream? for sure!
Beb’s Bagels and Kind Ice Cream have collaborated on a bagel that’s designed to make this month a little sweeter. Inspired by Kind’s outstanding maple bourbon pecan ice cream—four mini Beb’s bagels topped with bourbon candied pecans, maple bourbon cream cheese icing and maple sugar. Order here.
find popowich maui ribs at the uproot food store
The Uproot Food Store (10552 114 Street, 780-760-7668) now stocks six of excellent, time-saving Popowich Meat Company items—bacon-wrapped chicken breasts, spinach dip-stuffed chicken breasts, chicken cordon blue, chicken schnitzel, Maui Ribs (on the Tomato Top100 again this year, so good!) and bratwurst jalapeño poppers—with eight more to come shortly. Mike and Treena Popowich opened their Wolf Willow butcher shop a few years back and they have been wowing their customers with the high-quality meats, the prepared foods made in-house and local condiments. Uproot’s central Edmonton location is handy for those who can’t get out to the west end regularly. You can buy online too.
Mike and Treena Popowich
recipe of the week: cindy’s paska bread
“The Ukrainian Easter tradition is to prepare a basket of specific foods on Saturday which are taken to church the next day and blessed, then taken home to be eaten. Butter, cheese, salt, kielbasa or ham, pysanky, beet relish or vinaigrette, boiled eggs and babka or paska, often decorated with flowers, candles or embroidered cloth,” Cindy Lazarenko, Culina Family.
photo: Let the Baking Begin
tomato top100: biera’s smashed cucumber salad
Yup! A salad. Biera’s salads are always winners, this example with the xo chili sauce and fresh cheese has you thinking much differently about the usual suspects. Nominators also loved the trout carpaccio and the side stripe prawn crudo. Be sure to leave room for the cheese bar. Best in town.
