Fresh Restaurant Becomes Nutritional Nanny
I really like Fresh, a small restaurant chain in Toronto that grew out of a juice bar and now has three thriving vegetarian food locations. We used to eat in there a lot – the rice bowls are really seriously good, and the pancakes at weekend brunch are amazing – but the noise levels seem [...]
Living on a food budget of $7.50/day is not a real hardship
I read this morning that Ontario university students are complaining that their OSAP loans/grants only allow $7.50/day for food; for the poor dear who will have to give up her $4.50 Starbucks fancy drink, that appears to be a true hurdle in life. Oh, please. Let’s look, for example, at the dinner that I made [...]
MyMarket 2009 Year-End Review
After spending the summer and part of the fall as a volunteer at the local St. Andrew’s farmer’s market, I thought that I’d seen the last of that great group of people – the farmers, the Farmers’ Market Ontario team and the other volunteers – until next year, but I didn’t count on the year-end [...]
First class all the way
Sometimes, you just have to treat yourself, especially at the end of an extravagant birthday week. I traveled a lot last year, and racked up a lot of Aeroplan points. When it came time to make a trip to Germany for a conference this month, I decided to burn up some of those points and [...]
Pan Roasted Duck Magret with Ontario Peach and Coriander Cress
Another great recipe from Chris Zielinski from last week’s cooking demo Ingredients 1 Quebec duck breast (magret from moulard duck) Sea salt Extra Virgin Olive oil 2 ripe peaches Coriander seedlings I [Chris] like to serve this recipe over an arugula salad with candied walnuts in summer or root vegetable barley in the fall. A [...]
Chris Zielinski’s Lake Erie Pickerel with Ontario Peach Salsa
Here’s the recipe from last week’s cooking demo Ingredients 6 boneless Lake Erie Pickerel filets 1 tbsp butter 1tbsp olive oil 3 ripe Ontario peaches 1 heirloom or vine ripe tomato 2 jalapeno peppers ½ tsp ginger 1 clove garlic 12 thai basil leaves 12 mint leaves 2 sliced scallions Juice of 2 limes 1 [...]
Dinner at Blowfish
Considering that I live a 7 minute walk away, it’s amazing that I’ve never been to Blowfish restaurant and sake bar. Never until last night, that is, when my neighbour Irene invited me out for birthday drinks and appetizers (I love my birthday week: with a lot of foodie friends, I eat very well this [...]
Chicken Farmers host a Toronto food blogger meetup
I knew that I would like the people behind the Chicken Farmers of Canada social media the minute that I saw their Twitter bio: And how can you not like a group that organizes a free Toronto Food Bloggers Meetup with an interesting panel of speakers at Edward Levesque’s Kitchen, complete with tasty chicken appetizers [...]
Dinner at Tutti Matti
A few weeks ago, Chef Alida Solomon from Tutti Matti gave a cooking demo at our local St. Andrew’s Market, where she cooked baby heirloom tomatoes with garlic, olive oil, salt and fresh basil to make a delicious sauce for pasta. The fates conspired against getting a large pot of water to the boil that [...]
Hungry geek presentation
Here’s the video to go with the slides from my previous post: Ignite T.O. Sandy Kemsley -The Hungry Geek from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo.
