Agnes of God, Live in Toronto
My long-time friend Pat Anderson is performing in a local production of Agnes of God over the next two weeks: August 14, 15, 21 and 22 at No One Writes to the Colonel, a bar/cafe at College and Bathurst. Pat recited a few of her lines as Mother Superior to me at dinner last weekend, [...]
Special for Earth Hour: Solar PV at Tower Power Toronto
Tonight at 8:30pm we’ll celebrate Earth Hour, when we all turn out the lights for an hour. Although mostly symbolic, this should actually translate to reduced power consumption; in Ontario, you can track this on the IESO Earth Hour site which will show a graph of actual consumption against that of a typical Saturday night. [...]
Cloud 9
I was on Cloud 9 on Saturday night…or rather, I was *at* Cloud 9 (A Comedy of Multiple Organisms), Caryl Churchill’s 1978 two-act play dealing with preconceptions of gender and sexuality. Act I and II are 25 years apart based on the characters’ ages, but in a wonderful twist, the first act is set in [...]
CrisisCampTO Planning Meeting
I spent this afternoon at the initial planning meeting of CrisisCampTO, the Toronto manifestation of Crisis Commons. Although this is happening here and now in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti 12 days ago, Crisis Commons has a broader mandate: We are an international volunteer network of professionals drawn together by a call to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
