Kicking back in Manitoulin

[blue_dolphin]

  On 7/12/2017 at 7:36 PM, Anna N said:

Perhaps @ElainaA will pop in here and solve the mystery for us. 

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I'm not @ElainaA, but I saved her recipe from an earlier post and it appears the basil ribbons go over pasta.  Here is what I had saved:

 

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Slow Roasted Tomato Sauce with Basil and Parmesan. It takes along time to cook but it is worth it.
Preheat oven to 250. Heat 1/4 cup olive oil. Add 1 large onion, diced and 6 cloves garlic, diced. Cook about 4-5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in 18 (yes! the recipe is this specific! You don't have to be!) shredded basil leaves and 1/8 t. red pepper flakes. 
In a deep roasting pan, combine 50 cherry tomatoes (I told you the recipe is specific - and I use more) with 2 t. sugar, 1 t. salt and onion mixture. Drizzle with 1/4 c. olive oil. Roast in 250 degree oven for 3 hours, stirring once. Serve over pasta with 1/2 c. parmesan and 1/4 c. basil ribbons.
I like this with a mix of different colored cherry tomatoes

 

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Edited to add:  Here's a link to the post that I copied this from in the Gardening thread.

Edited July 12, 2017 by blue_dolphin (log)

[Shelby]

  On 7/12/2017 at 5:42 PM, Anna N said:

After I crawled under the covers in my bedroom to try and get warm I decided perhaps something to eat might work also. So I cooked up some bacon and made an open faced bacon and tomato sandwich. Now I'm going to find a pair of socks and make myself a hot coffee and see if that does it. I could turn on the heat but I refuse to surrender that far. 

 

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You're making me feel sweaty just reading this 

[Kerry Beal]

  On 7/12/2017 at 5:16 PM, JohnT said:

 

Is that natural home-made pea soup or made from a bulk catering pack? It really does not look too green like what I make with our locally purchased Canadian split peas. I will be cooking up a batch this weekend and will click a picture (If I remember).

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Home made for sure. Might be a combination of yellow and green split peas.

[Kerry Beal]

 

Totally made up drink - called it the "Craft Moment" - 11/2 ounces crown royal Northern Harvest Canadian Rye, 1 ounce sweet vermouth, 1/2 ounce each cynar and St Germain.

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

 

Roasted Cherry Tomato sauce with a little cream, with sautéed shrimp, over a little rice.

[Shelby]

  On 7/12/2017 at 9:58 PM, Kerry Beal said:

 

Roasted Cherry Tomato sauce with a little cream, with sautéed shrimp, over a little rice.

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WANT

[lindag]

This is inspiration for my leftover cherry tomato sauce, it looks wonderful!

[ElainaA]

  On 7/12/2017 at 7:36 PM, Anna N said:

Perhaps @ElainaA will pop in here and solve the mystery for us. 

 

 

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So sorry - I have not had time to be here much . The mistake is mine. The 18  (more or less in my opinion) get shredded and roasted with the tomatoes. The addition 1/4 cup of basil ribbons are tossed with the pasta before serving. I will edit the recipe if I can. (Sometimes I find i am not allowed to edit posts after awhile.)

[ElsieD]

  On 7/13/2017 at 12:59 AM, ElainaA said:

So sorry - I have not had time to be here much . The mistake is mine. The 18  (more or less in my opinion) get shredded and roasted with the tomatoes. The addition 1/4 cup of basil ribbons are tossed with the pasta before serving. I will edit the recipe if I can. (Sometimes I find i am not allowed to edit posts after awhile.)

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Thank you.  I've made the changes to my copy.  Looking forward to trying this.

[Kerry Beal]

Playing with the Carlota de Limón icebox cake that @MelissaHintroduced us to the other day. 

 

 

Some assembly required.

 

 

We shall see how it un-molds tomorrow. Next issue will be finding something on which to present it.

 

[Okanagancook]

CR Northern Harvest........nice choice 

[Kerry Beal]

  On 7/13/2017 at 2:03 AM, Okanagancook said:

CR Northern Harvest........nice choice 

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Never been a great fan of Crown Royal (or any Canadian Whisky really) - but I was wooed by the special blends of John Hall at Forty Creek and when people were fighting to get bottles of this one when it first came out - I just had to have one! It's pretty smooth and doesn't give me heartburn like a lot of the rye heavy whiskies do.

[Okanagancook]

I believe it was rated as the best rye whisky on the planet a couple of years ago.  This must be a blend under the same name and hopefully the same craftspeople but obviously liquor from different barrels.

 

i went on a tour of Forty Creek about 8 or 9 years ago.  The barrel warehouse was quite impressive.

[gfweb]

  On 7/13/2017 at 2:45 AM, Kerry Beal said:

Never been a great fan of Crown Royal (or any Canadian Whisky really) - but I was wooed by the special blends of John Hall at Forty Creek and when people were fighting to get bottles of this one when it first came out - I just had to have one! It's pretty smooth and doesn't give me heartburn like a lot of the rye heavy whiskies do.

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Canadian whiskey to me tastes like college parties.

 

Not a good memory.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

  On 7/13/2017 at 2:45 AM, Kerry Beal said:

Never been a great fan of Crown Royal (or any Canadian Whisky really) - but I was wooed by the special blends of John Hall at Forty Creek and when people were fighting to get bottles of this one when it first came out - I just had to have one! It's pretty smooth and doesn't give me heartburn like a lot of the rye heavy whiskies do.

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My favorite Canadian whisky is WhistlePig.

 

[Kerry Beal]

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:10 AM, Okanagancook said:

I believe it was rated as the best rye whisky on the planet a couple of years ago.  This must be a blend under the same name and hopefully the same craftspeople but obviously liquor from different barrels.

 

i went on a tour of Forty Creek about 8 or 9 years ago.  The barrel warehouse was quite impressive.

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Yeah - didn't get my hands on one of those bottles - though I did try.

 

Forty Creek is on my way to work - the Matt's came down and we toured a few years ago before Campari took them over when John Hall was releasing one of his new blends. He gave us the tour and tasting and we left with a few very nice bottles. 

[Okanagancook]

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:12 AM, gfweb said:

Canadian whiskey to me tastes like college parties.

 

Not a good memory.

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Well, if you get your hands on some Northern Harvest it is worth a try

[Kerry Beal]

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:13 AM, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

My favorite Canadian whisky is WhistlePig.

 

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I had to go to the US to get a bottle of that to send overseas sadly - of course found it in my local LCBO a week later when they relisted it.

[Kerry Beal]

  On 7/13/2017 at 3:15 AM, Okanagancook said:

Well, if you get your hands on some Northern Harvest it is worth a try

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For sure - it's a much, much better thing.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

  On 7/12/2017 at 7:44 PM, Anna N said:

Here's some more information on the future of our swing bridge for those who have an interest in  such things. 

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Sorry to hear for the residents of Manitoulin.  I can empathize.  Though I am a citizen of the sovereign state that invented Bridgegate, the local bridge problems have been more insidious.  I live on a river, OK actually about two thirds mile from a river as the crow flies or as the local stream meanders.

 

This town is hard on bridges,  Rochambeau and the French army pulled down the bridge north of town.  Washington and his troops pulled down the bridge to the south.

 

The current bridge was closed for repairs just over a year ago, 7/7/2016.  Two days later the state stopped all road construction because of budget cuts.  I shan't say more for reason of politics, but work resumed last winter only to be blocked for environmental concerns.

 

The bridge finally reopened to traffic two months ago.  Meanwhile commuters went through hell and local businesses failed.  Not to mention logistics problems of fire fighters and rescue squads.

 

My advice to Manitoulin is to keep the old swing bridge as it is, but leave it open to shipping.  Build a new bridge high enough to pass an aircraft carrier.  Get the government in Ottawa to pay for it.

 

[Anna N]

  On 7/13/2017 at 12:59 AM, ElainaA said:

So sorry - I have not had time to be here much . The mistake is mine. The 18  (more or less in my opinion) get shredded and roasted with the tomatoes. The addition 1/4 cup of basil ribbons are tossed with the pasta before serving. I will edit the recipe if I can. (Sometimes I find i am not allowed to edit posts after awhile.)

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No worries. Mine turned out just fine!  

[Kerry Beal]

  On 7/13/2017 at 4:07 AM, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Sorry to hear for the residents of Manitoulin.  I can empathize.  Though I am a citizen of the sovereign state that invented Bridgegate, the local bridge problems have been more insidious.  I live on a river, OK actually about two thirds mile from a river as the crow flies or as the local stream meanders.

 

This town is hard on bridges,  Rochambeau and the French army pulled down the bridge north of town.  Washington and his troops pulled down the bridge to the south.

 

The current bridge was closed for repairs just over a year ago, 7/7/2016.  Two days later the state stopped all road construction because of budget cuts.  I shan't say more for reason of politics, but work resumed last winter only to be blocked for environmental concerns.

 

The bridge finally reopened to traffic two months ago.  Meanwhile commuters went through hell and local businesses failed.  Not to mention logistics problems of fire fighters and rescue squads.

 

My advice to Manitoulin is to keep the old swing bridge as it is, but leave it open to shipping.  Build a new bridge high enough to pass an aircraft carrier.  Get the government in Ottawa to pay for it.

 

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Since the span is a few hundred meters at most - you'd be going straight up and straight down on a bridge that high or it would have to start in Espanola and end in Wiki.

[Kerry Beal]

 

 

Alright - off to work. Shall try to remember to get a pic of it cut. 

[Anna N]

 Good morning I have already posted my breakfast photo over on the breakfast thread but here it is again.

 

  The egg was fried in a cast iron skillet proving that Kerry knows how to season a pan. This is not the new 12 inch pan but an older 8" pan.

 

 So here's your challenge for today. We have lots and lots if leftover rice. Kerry wants some golden fried rice which we had at a Japanese restaurant. She swears she tasted sesame but we are coming up blank on a recipe.

 

I want some Middle Eastern-style rice using leftover rice. 

 

Anyone?

 

[Kerry Beal]

They took pictures then whisked it off to the fridge. I have them trained