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Donald Neil Leitch's avatar

Some thoughts from southwestern Ontario. I have cooked fresh lake fish (yellow perch or pickerel, as walleye are known in Canada) with a very similar recipe. It’s so tasty. Great in fish tacos. Sometimes we will add course corn meal to the fish batter. I am going to try your wild rice/manoomin recipe. It sounds good. Finally, here’s a story about sweet corn. A couple of summers ago my wife’s cousins from Scotland were visiting. We said that we were planning to have corn on the cob for our supper. Turning up their noses, they said they had tried it at home and didn’t like it. We told them fresh picked sweet corn was completely different. After convincing them to give it a try, we went out to a local farm stand and actually witnessed a tractor and wagon bringing in a load of corn cobs from the field. At supper time they were convinced that there is nothing like the flavour of fresh sweet corn on the cob.

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Patrice Johnson's avatar

Your dad was right about tomatoes! Summer afternoons I'd come home from spending hours at the pool, famished. My mom would send me out to the front stoop with my special pink metal bowl filled with whatever was coming out of the garden that day. When the tomatoes were ripe she'd pour sugar in the bottom of the bowl and I'd dip my tomato in the sugar before each bite. Heaven.

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