Jill's Buzz: Food
We're putting the finishing touches on Jill's Starters so that it's ready to purchase for the holidays. Featuring more than 100 appetizer and salad recipes, this latest cookbook from Jill will be available November 17 and 18, during our annual open house.A signed copy can be yours for just $29.99.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 00:34
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Doug Copping of Sarafino describes the features of their award winning olive oil from Calabria. L’Aspromontano extra virgin olive oil is made from the Carolea and Ottobratica olives and was recently featured in The Globe and Mail.
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 15:04
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Zena Besterd of London samples Banyuls red wine at Dominicain in Collioure, France. Besterd was one of eight women joining Jill on a tour of the Southwest region of France in May.Collioure is a beautiful seaside town in the south of France that was home to the Fauvist movement in the early 1900s. Artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Dali were known to have spent time in Collioure.Today, Collioure is home to many art galleries and specialty stores featuring the famous white anchovies of that region. Wine-making continues to play an important role in the region, as well.Banyuls wines are drawn from the both gray and white Grenache, Macaebeo, Malvasia and Muscat grapes, which are still hand-...
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:58
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Herbs are such a wonderful ingredient to use in all kinds of recipes.We’re busy with our herb classes at Jill’s Table and have lots of fun gadgets and supplies to help you with your herb growing and storage.For the beginner I recommend the following perennial herbs: flat leaf parsley, thyme, mint, sage and chives. These will be some of the first things up in the garden every spring and will give you years of enjoyment.I use parsley constantly in cooking. Thyme is another herb I use when making chicken stock, and also for roasting chicken. Mint is a must-have garnish for desserts and I use it in making my Vietnamese springrolls and a number of salads. Sage is...
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 15:29
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The Katana Café was the location for the Amici dell’ Enotria wine club meeting this past Sunday. David Chapman, (owner of Katana) and I co-hosted the event.The focus of the lunch was to feature several of our premium Italian olive oils. David prepared a five course Italian lunch that featured pinzimonio, Tuscan kale and bean soup, salad Caprese, wild mushroom risotto and olive oil ice cream. Check out our featured “recipe” for pinzimonio and check out the olive oil ice cream in our recipe section. We taste tested and used the following oils at our lunch:Peppoli from Antinori in Tuscany, drizzled over the soup. Poggio Antico drizzled over the...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 01:42
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Jill’s Table has its own olive label! We partnered with the fabulous Italian Fonte di Foiano which devotes itself to the production of exquisite extra virgin olive oil. Over the years, it has constantly reinvested its resources to modernize the production process, but keep old-world ways such as manual picking and pruning, to result in improved quality and products. Our oil is a blend of five olives and is a wonderful multi-purpose oil. $23.99
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 05:34
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