With market tables and bins groaning underneath the weight of an top notch abundance and variety of local produce, past due summer season and early fall are definitely superb seasons for chefs in southwestern Ontario ? I daresay that almost every fruit, vegetable, inexperienced and herb that I've cooked with over the past few months has been grown regionally, occasionally as domestically as my own backyard! One of the treats that I appearance maximum ahead to every fall harvest are baskets of suitable deep blue Coronation grapes. Sweet, tangy and juicy, those colourful little gemstones ? From time to time regarded simply as "blue grapes" ? Are essentially a whole lot of Concord grapes with all of the glorious Concord grape flavor but with out seeds, making them ideal and easy for snacking on.
And snack on the first few baskets I constantly do, but I'm also on the hunt for thoughts to include them into recipes as properly to showcase their specific flavor in some thing extra elaborate than a snack bowl. This recipe has been hiding in my draft folder for numerous months now, long since the remaining time blue grapes had been in season, but now that I've long gone through numerous baskets of this yr's crop it was time to place it collectively in this savory and just slightly sweet Tuscan focaccia bread with rosemary, toasted pine nuts and olive oil ? Or what all of us else in Italy calls focaccia however is called schiacciata or "flattened down" in Tuscany.
This conventional bread is made in the course of the wine grape harvest in Tuscany, and I suspect that it's made now not so much in celebration of the harvest as for a snack to maintain the vineyard workers going for the duration of the day. For us non-winery human beings, it's a exceptional mild sparkling leavened bread speckled with lovely circles of crimson and a rather tasty mixture of the grapes and clean rosemary. My husband and I had been thrilled both with the flavor and the smooth texture of the bread interspersed with little crunchy toasted pine nuts. We ate this for dessert, for a overdue-night time snack, and for breakfast the following day!
If you can't discover Coronation grapes, do experience free to alternative any pretty tart and now not-too-candy pink or black table grape.
More blue grape recipes you may revel in:
Concord Grape Pie
Blue Grape Pancakes
Baked Blue Grape Pancakes
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