Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts

salsa verde + apple tart

so, we promised a little post on one of the things we made with all those apples. we decided to cook dinner for my family and it all started with a giant pack of tilapia from costco. for an appetiser we made a salad of roasted yellow beets, goat cheese and arugula. It might be our all time favourite salad! $0.99lb yellow beets at Longo's!

goat cheese, arugula, roasted yellow beet salad
Its easy, just chop finely a challot, mix with some lemon juice olive oil and into the argula. roast yellow beets for about an hour in foil with some thyme. let it cool, chop into cubes and serve with the arugula and crumbled goat cheese.

pan frying the fish
here we did a simple flouring with seasoning on the fish fillet and pan friend each.


we sauteed some baby white potatoes with broccoli flowers with a little butter, salt pepper.

fish, salsa verde
and here it is all plated together with the salsa verde. this green salsa consisted of anchovie paste, lemon juice, and lots of choppped pickles, capers, parsley.

the making of the tart
apple cream cheese tart
for dessert may tackled a pie crust that we moulded into one of those spring forms, with a custardy cream cheese filling and sliced apples that were tossed with some sugar and cinnamon. I'll bet that the recipe was from Smitten Kitchen but i can't quite remember at this time.

everything was a success! the only fail was that i thought i picked up a package of red snapper, but instead it was tilapia. ah well, next time!

applewood

so we're pretty behind in our posting.. but we've got lots to share! last month we went apple picking with my mom, grandma, brother and tiffany at applewood farms in Markham.

applewood farm
$5 admission, $20 for a bag of apples with your admission returned. not bad, considering we get to have fun, and bring home as many apples as we dream to eat.

applewood farm
of course there was a playground for all the children, haybail mountains and all.

applewood farm

applewood farm
we picked spencer and courtland varieties of apples. We missed a lot of the good stuff because we went later in the season.

applewood farm

applewood farm
hehe. photographed by darrick.

stay tuned for some apple goodies we made with our bounty =]