Foodie

It has been a long time since we chatted with someone involved in the shellfish industry. This time we welcomed Greg Wood, a small scale oyster farmer, who makes his living growing oysters and self-marketing his product. Becoming a farmer back in his late teens, Greg has had a long history in the industry and is hoping to embrace the evolutions and become an innovator to create truly sustainable employment that builds food security for the region and beyond.

We sent out a mass email to many of the fine folks in the local food shed last week, and we were happy to receive many emails from chefs, farmers and producers. We thank you all and hope to get many of you into the studio soon to share your stories.Carmie Dixon was one of the first to respond to our email. She has been operating Carmies Cafe and Catering in Cumberland for just over five years now. With a long history of cooking in a variety of situations and countries, she has had a variety of culinary training. She says she is a cook, not a chef and prides herself and the Cafe with home cooked, comfort-style affair. Carmie is also the first of the seven establishments in Cumberland to have on the podcast. Thanks Carmie for joining us in the studio!

With our busy schedules, we were not able to organize a guest for this weeks recording. However we had a chance to chat about a few goings on. Blayne has now become the proud owner of a steer, as well as getting close to finishing up his Permaculture Design Course. Jon is happily feeding the masses on these warm summer nights at the Atlas, and preparing for Flavour in a month and a half!
We are hoping to get more feedback from listeners and perspective guests. If you know of someone who would be interesting for usnto talk to, please send us an email(ediblevalley@gmail.com), comment on the show notes, or on our facebook page.

On this episode of Edible Valley Food Facts we are talking Cooking Methods. Darren and Jonathan are once again trying to get back to basics in an attempt to simplify cooking and help break peoples fears of cooking and food. We will be discussing the effect of heat on food and the different ways of cooking. We plan to explore how proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and water are effected by heat and what methods work best. From moist heat to dry heat methods we will be discussing our favourites ways and dishes that help us enjoy our edible valley. Learning how food cooks is and essential lesson to be learn in the kitchen and some simple knowledge can save you from hours of frustration and disaster. The simple techniques of simmering water to poaching and the benefits of steaming. We will get into a personal favourite, braising the process of slowly tenderizing a protein to bring about a tender juicy product. These are some examples of moist heat cooking methods, the process in conducting heat through a liquid, i.e. water, which we will dive in to more deeply in this episode. Dry heat Method on the other hand is the transfer of heat without moisture that is by using hot air, hot metal, radiation or hot fat. Great examples of these are baking, grilling, broiling, sautéing or deep frying. Hope you enjoy and learn while listening to this episode of Edible Valley Food Facts.

On this episode of Edible Valley Food Facts we are talking Cooking Methods. Darren and Jonathan are once again trying to get back to basics in an attempt to simplify cooking and help break peoples fears of cooking and food. We will be discussing the effect of heat on food and the different ways of cooking. We plan to explore how proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and water are effected by heat and what methods work best. From moist heat to dry heat methods we will be discussing our favourites ways and dishes that help us enjoy our edible valley. Learning how food cooks is and essential lesson to be learn in the kitchen and some simple knowledge can save you from hours of frustration and disaster. The simple techniques of simmering water to poaching and the benefits of steaming. We will get into a personal favourite, braising the process of slowly tenderizing a protein to bring about a tender juicy product. These are some examples of moist heat cooking methods, the process in conducting heat through a liquid, i.e. water, which we will dive in to more deeply in this episode. Dry heat Method on the other hand is the transfer of heat without moisture that is by using hot air, hot metal, radiation or hot fat. Great examples of these are baking, grilling, broiling, sautéing or deep frying. Hope you enjoy and learn while listening to this episode of Edible Valley Food Facts.

Hi all. After many weeks of research and learning, we are back in business. We now have the ability to do a much broader media show with the addition of an iMac and the GarageBand program! It is exciting to get back into the swing of things, and move forward with bringing attention to the food culture of the Comox Valley, to the area and beyond.
This week found Jon and Blayne in studio together with some events to chat about, including Dine Around Comox Valley and Jon's cooking demo at Beyond the Kitchen Door. News of the North Vancouver Island Chefs Associations Pasta Day is coming out, and we also touch on cooking oysters.
Thanks for listening to the Edible Valley podcast. We gratefully accept donations to help with our hosting, as well as contributions of food ingredients to the Edible Valley test kitchen. Please feel free to contact us by email ediblevalley@gmail.com, follow our twitter feed (@ediblevalley) and like our facebook page.

The guys at Edible Valley are still working on building a real studio, and had time to sit down together to chat about a favorite dish of the season, Home-made soup. Blayne also chats about his weekend away in Victoria, exploring several new to him food vendors.
Events
Dine Around Comox Valley February 20th until March 17th. Check out your favorite restaurant for special menu items for the month. Come celebrate your local food scene.
Thanks for listening to Edible Valley. Please feel free to contact us with comments or suggestion by email ediblevalley@gmail.com