Consider this an ode to the end of summer. The nights are getting cooler. The sun is setting a bit earlier. Summer is on it’s way out. Soon the market will be filled with nothing but root vegetables. Le sigh. With all that in mind I decided to head over to the North York Civic [...]
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Aug 272010
The August 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Elissa of 17 and Baking. For the first time, The Daring Bakers partnered with Sugar High Fridays for a co-event and Elissa was the gracious hostess of both. Using the theme of beurre noisette, or browned butter, Elissa chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make a [...]
Aug 242010
It’s not surprise that I love granola. I’ve blogged about it a bunch of times (just type in granola in the search field at the top). Granola is one of those things that I can never find just right in the packaged version. As someone with a serious aversion to raisins I’m forever disappointed that [...]
I love summer in Ontario. I get so excited to go to the farmers markets and pick up whatever is fresh. I went to the Brickworks for their weekly market and picked up this incredible delicious basket of peaches. As I was making my way through the peaches I realized that I would need an [...]
Aug 202010
I went to Montreal for the first time about 3 years ago and fell in love. It’s a great city with a chill vibe and great food. Oddly enough despite two trip to Montreal I’ve never blogged about my eating escapades. Go figure. The trouble with Montreal is finding enough time to eat all the [...]
Aug 182010
So to accompany my not so great pork belly I made bok choy. I’ve always enjoyed bok choy but usually buy the big heads. This time I thought it would be fun to buy some baby bok choy and stir-fry that up. Thanks heavens I did because my pork belly verged on inedible The [...]
The August 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by LizG of Bits n’ Bites and Anula of Anula’s Kitchen. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make pierogi from scratch and an optional challenge to provide one filling that best represents their locale. Ah pierogies! A food that is near and dear to my heart. [...]
After my fun cottage weekend I was gifted with a ton of kale. Kale isn’t something that I would normally buy so I wasn’t too sure what to do with it. Of course I could prepare it like I would spinach or some other dark, leafy green but I wanted some a bit different. I [...]
Aug 092010
Occasionally you win some, you lose some when it comes to making dinner. I had some leftover pork belly in my freezer (from making this pate) that I was so excited to use up! I considered preparing the pork belly the same way that I did last time but thought I’d do it up a [...]
The other day I was at home with the day off and got hungry for lunch. I didn’t want to buy lunch because I had bought breakfast so I started rummaging in my fridge to see what I had. The day before I (on a whim) bought some packaged gnocchi so I figured I would [...]
