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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 09 – Garlic

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An ode to our favourite aromatic! In this episode Simon and Shawn dive deep into the pungent world of garlic with recipes, stories, quotes, tips, afros and tricks for healthy skin, meatball bouncing contests and even some amateur effects work.

Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca

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Music by John Palmer

Additional Music by Dee-Yan Kee via the Free Music Archive

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Glorious Gartsin Garlic by Shawn Galway for Edible vancouver Island Magazine: https://ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought/glorious-garstin-garlic

Alexis Soyer’s Shilling Cookery for the People: https://www.amazon.ca/Soyers-Shilling-Cookery-People-Alexis-ebook/dp/B009Y4ZM88

Spruce Tips: https://foragerchef.com/spruce-tips/

Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential: https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Confidential-Updated-Adventures-Underbelly/dp/0060899220

David Rocco’s Dolce Vita: https://davidrocco.com/portfolio/shows-list-drdv/

Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers Documentary by Les Blank NOT Baz Luhrmann (1980): https://vimeo.com/ondemand/garlic

Merville Garlic Festival: http://mervillehall.ca/major-events/garlic-festival/

40 Cloves and a Chicken by Alton Brown: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/40-cloves-and-a-chicken-recipe-1910661

Xo Soused Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/xo-soused/id1566932756

The God Of Cookery (1996): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116426/

Fresh Polish Farmhouse Sausage (Kielbasa Wiejska)

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The pork shoulders are back on sale, so it’s time to clear the counters and get to sausage making! This recipe is for a much subtler, pork-forward sausage than the fresh chorizo recipe I posted previously but comes from the same cookbook: Charcuterie by Ruhlman and Polcyn. The only change I have made to the recipe is to sub water for wine. Fitting as this is a traditional Polish sausage eaten at Christmas and Easter.

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Edible Vancouver Island Magazine is Here!

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After keeping it under my toque for the last couple months, the wait is finally over and I can talk about another of my extra-curricular writing activities.

This week the inaugural issue of Edible Vancouver Island Magazine is available at fine food purveyors island-wide and features a two page article on my friend and garlic guru Brent Garstin, written by your truly. It’s my very first published bit of writing! I feel so legit!

Big thanks to Dawn, the publisher for bringing me on board and Editor Julie ‘n photographer Danika for making my words better than they have a right to be! Hopefully I’ll be able to do an article or two for them in the future.

Check out the EVI website for tons of online content and a map of where the physical magazines are distributed.

Il Falcone (Courteany, BC)

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Via: https://www.ilfalcone.ca/

I recently sat down with farmer, philosopher and garlic guru Brent Garstin at his bucolic Comox Valley farm for a secret project that hopefully I’ll be able to share in a bit. Brent dropped all kinds of knowledge on me, including where to get some of his award-winning garlic to eat.

Crystal was then gracious enough to pick me up from the middle of nowhere so I treated us to dinner at the restaurant Brent suggested. Neither of us had ever eaten there, but I had high hopes after Brent said, “they do things there the right way, authentic… People that I trust say it’s the best in town.”

Those people were right.

Located at the end of the main drag in Courtenay and easily spotted thanks to its copious grape vines and nearly-neon orange paint job is Il Falcone. We arrived around six and scored a couple of seats in their small dining room just before the dinner rush hit. On the way by I peeked in the open kitchen and saw a guy laying out sheet after sheet of fresh pasta and knew we’d made the right choice.

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Chestnut Soup with Crispy Pancetta

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Many years ago on a whim I purchased a rather strange cookbook by Lois Anne Rothert dedicated entirely to the various soups of rural France. Normally I don’t pitch in for something so bizarrely specialized but something about this tome’s yeomen charm captured my imagination and it’s survived many cookbook purges over the years when shelf space became scarce.

Now, three months deep into my still-UN-identified illness this book has more than earned it’s keep with such soul-satisfying and sanity-soothing soups as Country Sorrel and Potato, Oyster and Cognac stew, Lentil Potage and this deeply savoury winter soup of pureed chestnuts, aromatics and crispy pancetta. Read More