Ottawa Foodies

I dropped by the Lansdowne farmer's market this morning to buy some beets. I ended up buying some pork confit crepes from these guys, and whoa... it was like crack in a crepe. Basically pork cheek meat, confit style & shredded in a crepe with some chives and smothered in bechamel & cheese sauce. Need I say more? It was fan-f'ing-tastic. I think these guys might be my new favourite vendor at the market. They use heritage breeds of pork, older than the average supermarket pig, and definitely have a better flavour. Very well done. Highly recommended.

I recently bought a smoked turkey and bacon pot pie and a pork and mushroom meat pie from these guys at the Landsdowne farmer's market. Wow! Delicious. The pie crust for both of these were flaky, crispy, and tasty, everything you look for in pie pastry. I'll talk first about the smoked turkey and bacon pot pie. The filling was the usual suspects, veggies, smoked turkey and bacon, smothered in stock and cooked together until all the flavours infused with one another. When I cut the pie open (sharing with my wife) the filling just oozed out. Thinking that the turkey pot pie was delicious, we moved on to the pork and mushroom pie... and we were blown away. The filling is shredded heritage pork with combination of 8 different mushroom varieties (so I'm told). I was able to pick out shitake, portabella, enoki, oyster and honshimeji. I'm not sure if the other 3 were in my specific one (everything is homemade and thus open to change). Because of the many asian variety of mushrooms, there was a distinct asian flavour or flair to the pie. It was absolutely delicious. So delicious in fact that I went again this week to pick up 2 more of them. Highly recommended!