The Yum Yum Factor

I made some really delicious Manchego Stuffed Meatballs with Romesco recently to serve as tapas style appetizer. In fact, they have been such a huge hit that when I found out that Mushrooms Canada was holding their annual mushroom appetizer contest for the members of the Food Bloggers of Canada, I looked no further, although it required a bit of tweaking. The original recipe called for serving meatballs on a plate, sitting on a thick smear of romesco, the Spanish sauce made from almonds, bread, olive oil and roasted peppers. Don't get me wrong, I love serving them like this but it really only works when we are actually sitting down to dinner as the whole idea is that you spear one with a fork and drag it through the sauce on it's way to your plate. For this contest, I know they are looking for an appetizer that can be eaten out of hand so what could make more sense than using an actual mushroom cap as a little bed for the meatball right? It's not like ...

The Week In Yum has been on hiatus so that I could go about my business adulting for the last month or so. For this week, I am going to show my week in photos with more posts about some of these things coming at a later date. So, first up though: Last week, I found out about a contest to become the next blogger ambassador for Canada Beef a couple days before the deadline. Of course, the only free day I had was THE DAY OF THE DEADLINE. That was when the wonderful folks at Heatherlea Farms came to the rescue and allowed me to run amok on their Caledon farm, communing with their Black Angus cattle. Frankly, the cows were not particularly impressed with me and my new selfie stick but Farmer Gord was a stellar host, driving my friend, Nancy, and I all over the place, letting us tag along to feed them and check up on these delicious looking beasts. So, if you are so inclined, voting ends tomorrow, Oct 25 at 11:59 CT, whatever time that is because I can't keep it straight...