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Come @EatWith Us
Many people like dining in some-one else’s home. They like to do so either in person or, perhaps vicariously, by watching some of the popular shows on television. Some go to more extreme lengths: A fellow member of my cooking club, ate at four strangers’ houses in the course of a week, and then invited them all to his place for supper!
He won the popular, if bitchy, TV program “Come Dine With Me”. (Brad’s 15 minutes of fame were well deserved; his recipes blew the competition away, and included one for a delicious maple miso glazed sea bass that I’ve cooked a variant of.)
So I was interested to get an invitation via Facebook to join a friend “and other interesting dinner guests for an Exotic Journey to the Past - a British Raj dinner in downtown Burlington.” It would be $35 a head and
Marmalade! Near and Far
I suppose it may be the British upbringing, but I love Marmalade. I love the associated rituals: Toast in a toast rack (or toast cooler as my wife refers to it), the butter melting, spooning out and spreading the wonderful preserve, the aroma, crunch and mouth feel, and scooping up the last escaped crumbs with sticky fingers.
Since this is the season home canners are active turning Seville oranges into tawny gold, I wanted to share some old and new favourites with readers.
My sister-in-law is known in the family as a premier source of a tangy marmalade she issues in small jars on special occasions to those deemed deserving. She vies with her Mother (my Mother in Law) in this respect, something I should probably try to put to my advantage.
Adrienne’s marmalade is a delightfully tangy and chewy three citrus blend with hits of lime and lemon rind
