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YOUR MISSION COMPLETED: A TASTE OF HOME

Last week, we asked Gastroposters to open their doors to let us sample foods from their heritage. !rom butter chicken to to bread, you certainly showed us a taste of home. Now if only you’d invite us over for dinner. "witter handles are in blue and Instagram in brown.

Susan Turnbull Kendra McCaskill Frequent Gastroposter @kendrahaha Nana’s mac and cheese: Watermelon salad reminds a Halloween tradition me of summer at the lake

Justine Celina Maguire Marina Mellino @justinecelina @thespicechica Homemade trail mix for Choripan, Argentina’s sausage tomorrow’s hike with chimichurri on a bun

Stacey Waters Bread: the food of my people. @pastey Gail Fraiberg Geri Guimban First-time Gastroposter @geri_blueberry Beef brisket, roasted potatoes Variety of Filipino favourites and carrots at Grumans

Bianca Quijano Shanice Talan Kathy Vu Sheryl Solis Krystal McMaster William Ngan @biancaquijano @xaniz25 @katkatvu @sherylsolis Frequent Gastroposter @waingan Butter chicken and caramel and tuyo: a salty Spicy kimchee pork soup Minatamis na saging is my Indian butter chicken with Cambodian-style beef tataki. chicken and sweet Filipino breakfast all-time fave Filipino dessert and naan bread It’s delicious!

Kim Adamack Simon Daykin Kimberly Sanchez Sharon Kan Nick Wong Tony Ballesteros @missmistisa @alifeofsi @kayxbarley @lapetitteshar @azn_gq @lilcheftonz I will raise my glass for this Being from England, I love a good Petit déjeuner des Home-cooked dinner: garlic Homemade Korean for Bulalo: Filipino beef marrow meal: beef tagliatelle fish and chips with mushy peas champions noodles and dumplings dinner stew

Jessica Kostka Shauna Kirkpatrick Alia Ahmad @jesskostka @shaunakirkirish @aliamarielove Taste of German heritage: apple Quinoa Greek salad Indian home cooking: aloo pancakes like my oma made gobi and baingan bharta

Lindsay Powell Being from the West Coast, Ieie Hoo Kim Thurn Will Tigley @wineandfoodblog seafood is a huge part of your @ieiehoo @destinyzrose @wtigley diet. !resh fish and shellfish You don’t need to go back to Eating my way through my new Spam: my wife walked by and is what I live for. Indonesia to have a taste of home ’hood, one restaurant at a time said, “It smells like childhood” YOU WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015 CALGARY HERALD E! YOUR FOOD COULD BE IN THE PAPER, TOO Each week, Gastropost recognizes some of its members who made Alberta food a part of their experience. If you eat local JOIN US! ingredients to complete this week’s mission (see right), ✔ Get your food pics & ideas tag your post #tasteab and you published in the paper might see it here next week! ✔ Be the first to find out about new Gastropost missions

NEXT MISSION: WE n TOMATOES

No matter which way you say it, most Lisa Vanderwal Kerry McKague people can all agree that tomatoes are a @gowestgal @secretdiaryofasahm totally essential food. Even if you don’t For my chicken cacciatore, I’ve used local I’m home on the family farm and my mom made have a taste for this fruit fresh from the Bowden chicken thighs. Yummy childhood a stew that I grew up on with grass-fed beef from vine, there are so many other variations memories with this dish. our pasture: a hearty farm dish from my heritage. to enjoy it: from sauces to soups to salsas, tomatoes might be one of the most versatile foods ever. So let’s celebrate ol’ red for this week’s mission by showing us your favourite way to eat tomatoes. W!ether you’re enjoying one whole from a farmers’ market or prefer it a bit more processed as a dip for your fries, it’s time to tell us how much you love tomatoes.

“I am so proud of this year’s fi rst garden tomato. Nothing tastes as good as the fi rst one,” says Gastroposter Chrissie Graboski

MISSION INSPIRATION

W!en it comes to tomatoes, Gull Valley Greenhouses knows all about the colourful fruit. Located north of Red Deer, near Blackfalds, they grow close to a million pounds of tomatoes ever" year. Levi #iemstra and his family have been running the business since 1991. “We grow them Carmen Cheng Karen Adler hydroponically, without the use of @foodkarmablog @karenadler62 chemicals or pesticides,” he says. Gull Valley grows 12 varieties of tomatoes. One of my favourite Alberta foods is Sunworks Spatchcocked chicken is always a family “Instead of growing them in soil, we grow Farm chicken. I especially love the plump legs! favourite. them in a coconut husk and feed the tomatoes nutrients through the water.” As for the hydroponic preference, he says it’s partly due to e$ ciency. “It allows us to give the tomatoes exactly the right nutrients that are needed for them to grow.” W!ile Levi enjoys a good caprese salad, he says the chewier zebrino tomatoes o% er an interesting option. “We put them on the barbecue with a bit of oil for a few minutes to soften them up, and they turn out quite nice.” He says the barbecued tomatoes pair nicely with an Alberta steak.

If you’re enjoying something that uses Michelle Tran Kevin Cortez Christina Mc Mullan May Del Rosario local ingredients, make sure to tag @cookingwithmamamui @kxcortez @c_mac_media @mayo_dr #tasteab to your gastropost! Thit kho: Vietnamese Smorgasbord of Filipino food It’s no Tex-Mex taco but it’s the , and pichi pichi caramelized pork belly at Mama Nita’s Binalot closest I’ve got for a taste of home platter GASTROPOST IT SHARE YOUR MISSION WITH US AT:

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