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Kim from Grow.Chew. gave me one of her Veratile Blogger badges (thanks Kim!) so I’m ready to pass the link love on. The rules are easy: say 7 things about yourself and nominate 7 other bloggers. Ooh, I hate talking about myself… i ...read more.
Niagara on the Lake, or NOTL, really has too many wineries to visit them all in a day, or even a weekend. With the count currently around 30 wineries, the area has almost as many wineries are Beamsville and Jordan combined. If you are travelling from ...read more.
I’d really rather not look at numbers, but if you are of the sort that prefers to count calories…. Have your fill here. YIKES! Tagged: calories in rotis, gandhi's calories, gandhi's cuisine, gandhi's indian, gandhi's roti, gandhi's roti t ...read more.
Sitting on the deck. Cold beer. Sunshine. I’m taking a break. There was a time when I would have said this was a guilty indulgence. I was sitting in our home office, feeling that slight burning sensation in my shoulders as the muscles in my sho ...read more.
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The bad news is that new restos are coming on line noisier than ever! Parts and Labour South of Temperance Beer Bistro Cava L’Unita Origin Foxley Nyood Kultura Quanto Basto Nota Bene Ciao ...read more.
Under the Toque: Insider’s Guide to Dining in Toronto Ever feel that you’re out of depth in the ever-changing mores of restaurant culture? Once it seemed so simple. You called, made a reservation, showed up and ate. There was an invis ...read more.
Are you a sadist or a masochist? Do you like to yell or prefer to be yelled at? Either way, I have just the place for you. Parts and Labour is a new Parkdale restaurant in a gutted Home Hardware store on Queen West. Where once the local DIY crowd d ...read more.
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Antony is back, with reviews of two products—one mass market; one specialty. His very young twin daughters weigh in on the apple purée (they don’t drink beer). You know where to find the Molson’s; for where-to-buy info for the apple pu ...read more.
Stage V was not a full day for us, as we would be going back to Chamonix the following day. We did a short day hike up to Refugio Bertone (1,980')and back. The round trip took as about 3hrs. At Refuge Bertone we relaxed sipping our espresso’s and g ...read more.
Back during the Great Depression food mostly came out of a can. A tinny version of Succotash using canned corn was choked down so regularly it coined the catchphrase “Suffering Succotash”. Nowadays with an abundance of fresh food we no longer nee ...read more.
When you are on a budget – but still wanting to buy local and organic products for you family, budgets can get pretty tight pretty fast. Some weeks there just isn’t enough to buy everything you want organically and other times it’s ...read more.
Vegan Overnight Oat Parfait, it has been too long! On Wednesday night, I went to make a batch of vegan overnight oats before bed and I realized that I was out of almond milk. It was almost midnight and I was so desperate I considered making alm ...read more.
I bought beautiful kohlrabi from the lady who sells veggies on the front porch of our neighborhood bakery. I would like to grow some next year.I did mention before that kohlrabi make great fries...I simply mixed with sesame oil, panko and salt. In ...read more.
THE LOW DOWN: For many, this will be the first opportunity to experience a really good wine from Prince Edward County. Malivoire Sauvignon is another excellent local white, and I’m delighted to have my first ever recommendation of a Hungarian r ...read more.
Man cannot live by chocolate alone… A lot has been written about IFBC, my last post included. There have been varying opinions on the success of the conference – I think all attendees will agree that it was wonderful to connect with old ...read more.
For the second installment of "Meet a Gold Medal Plates Ottawa Competing Chef", Jenn and I visited Play Food and Wine at 1 York Street. This is one of the restaurants we always recommend to people who visit Ottawa and stay in the ByWard Market area. ...read more.
EVENTS Hispanic Fiesta 2010 Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge Street free admission Hispanic Fiesta 2010 is ready to fill Mel Lastman Square with the splendid sounds, tempting treats and colorful culture that the Hispanic heritage is famous for. Hispani ...read more.
This is a lobster mushroom. Wanted to show this creature to you from every angle. I bought this sweet sweet forest baby at last week’s Trinity Bellwoods Market. It smells like a mix of fish and the powers of the universe. ...read more.
Locations: 214 King Street West, Toronto 207 Queens Quay West, Toronto www.ilfornello.com The Queens Quay locatino of Il Fornello was where we first discovered the delicious Cookoothama Shiraz. With such a funny name and the child-like hand impressio ...read more.
So it’s been a couple of weeks since my last little food update, and so much has happened around town. While I try to conquer more of my San Francisco experiences for you, just know that I’m swamped with my actual job and that means, unti ...read more.
First day of school. Sniff. He was so ready for it – it was as if he had been going to school for years and knew the drill – did I tell you about the Ramsay school spring concert we were invited to, at which halfway through the show W st ...read more.
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I want to take a moment to publicly thanks some really fine folks who really went out of their way to help us get all our gear to California to tape the episode of BBQ Pitmasters. Traeger Canada wood pellet grills we use everywhere! We used the Traeg ...read more.
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usually when there's a birthday in our family, a sri lankan feast is prepared for dinner. this time--breakfast. i think we (read: my cousins and i) were all more excited about this because it's rare that any of us (read:... ...read more.
Just fyi I’ll be taking a blog-break for a few days. As soon as I’m back at it [Sept 9], I’ll be uploading Serben Free Range‘s ‘From Local Farms’ episode. The next two up are Sunworks Farm, and Golden Forest Grains ...read more.