Sweet Patootie

So you know how at times you are at a dentist’s office, doctor’s office, optometrist, heck, anywhere that has magazines for your reading pleasure as you wait for your turn to go in? Well, In the past…when I was really young and innocent, if I saw a recipe I liked in these magazines, I would slowly, and quietly tear it out of the pages. If the receptionist happened to glance at me, I would give her a bright and sunny smile.  Don’t pretend, you know you have done it too, he he he. Or perhaps thought about doing it at least.

I stopped doing this when I grew older and wiser , and felt the frustration of looking through a magazine and finding pages ripped out! Pages that contained recipes that I had wanted to view. That taught me a lesson, and was the end of my ripping pages from reception magazine days.  I came up with two different solutions on how to get these recipes after this. A couple of times, not very often, I asked the receptionist if I could have the magazine when they were going to get rid of it. This was not ideal, as I have a ridiculous amount of magazines already. I certainly did not need more.

My second option, and one I use more often, was to make sure I had a pen and something to copy down recipes I liked from the magazines in these waiting rooms. Inevitably, as I’m halfway through a recipe, I usually get called in! This has happened way too many times.

Sometime last year, I was looking through the March 2010 issue of Your Family Magazine in a doctor’s waiting room. I had barely glanced at a recipe page that grabbed my interest when I was called in. I had to go back to work as soon as I was done with my appointment, and sadly did not get a chance to view the recipe again.

I remembered it had balsamic vinegar which I LOVE, sausages, and tomatoes in the title. I got online, and tried to find it, to no avail. I then looked in almost every shop for the magazine, but it was not to be found. Only the April 2010 issues were available. Now I became really obsessed with finding this recipe, lol. To make a long story short, I emailed the magazine and told them of my dilemma. I tried to appear calm and rational, and not sound as if I were obsessing over this recipe. I did not want to appear desperate and crazy. The kind and lovely Food Editor emailed me back shortly with the recipe as well as 2 others I had requested. Phew! This recipe is simple, but produces great results, and fantastic flavours!

Don’t ask me why I didn’t just go back to the doctor’s office The important thing is that the recipe was found in the end, lol. Why don”t you try it for breakfast or brunch this coming weekend? It’s well worth it!