Not quite ready to move on from the light and fresh tastes of summer? This Thai-influenced tomato and cucumber salad does the trick. Adapted from a recipe by chef Alexa Weibel
Gluten-Free recipes
Veggie-packed and gluten-free. It uses up the zucchini that might be a bit long in the tooth, takes advantage of spinach’s second coming and is nice and cheesy to boot. Adapted from a recipe by Donna Hay
Levi Biddlecomb, Why Not Café
Serve this at your next brunch or as part of Thanksgiving celebrations. –Larry Steward, Hardware Grill
The trick to nicely roasted fall vegetables is to cut them all the same size. In the fall I prefer to leave the skins on my acorn squash, carrots and parsnips, I enjoy the contrast once they’ve been roasted off. –Spencer Thompson, The Marc
Chef Shane Chartrand’s salad combines both fried and blanched kale with an irresistible taste of fall, fresh pumpkin seeds. From his new cook book Tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine
My favourite comfort food recipe for freshly dug potatoes. –Harold Wollin, Blue Chair Café
This recipe works best with really good sausage and bacon so grab some good stuff from Meuwly’s or your local butcher! –Ryan Hotchkiss, Bündok
This quintessential Sicilian dish is found throughout the island. Like so many other recipes in Italy there are countless versions and variations which vary from town to town and family to family.
To make a dish that showcased saskatoon berries we chose to go the savoury route and prepared a braised smoky pork shoulder with saskatoon salsa and pickled saskatoons. -Chef Dylan Prins
fresh radishes, sugar snap peas, asparagus … what could go wrong?
Austrian Sauvignon Blanc is known for high quality and the impressive elegance of the wines from south Styria—especially from a producer like Sattlerhof
The most classic way to eat asparagus is with hollandaise sauce, considered one of the French mother sauces—automatically scary for most home cooks
This is a relatively simple dish that highlights the freshness of local asparagus. You don’t want a wine to overwhelm that, which makes the Emiliana a good choice
The Two Rooms Café on Whyte Avenue made the most amazing lentil soup. Lemony, not heavy, so delicious. This is the closest I have been able to come to the taste memory of it
This soup is built on a base of roasted vegetables which adds depth of flavour. This part could also be done ahead. Alberta Pulse Growers adaption