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 [...]
Aug 092010
Jun 252010
The Black Hoof 938 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON 416.551.8854 Twitter: @theblackhoof (no website) Photo borrowed from Blog TO The Black Hoof has been on my list of restaurants to try for months. The thing is it’s not the type of place that you can take just any friend. For example a vegan or even [...]
Jun 232010
Every once in a while I get random cravings for foods I’ve never eaten before… like steak with chimichurri. For some reason my body has been craving Latin American food. It’s like my heart is screaming maduros! tostones! rice and beans! arroz con pollo! Luckily while the Latin American food scene in Toronto is underdeveloped, [...]
I’ve been hearing about the Daring Cooks/Daring Bakers challenges FOREVER. I actually signed up for it about a year ago but totally forgot about it until recently. I’ve officially joined both groups! For more information visit this site. Our hostesses this month, Evelyne of Cheap Ethnic Eatz, and Valerie of a The Chocolate Bunny, chose [...]
Jun 122010
Being of Jamaican descent I grew up eating oxtails. But only one way, typically stewed/braised with some broad beans thrown in and served with rice and peas. It’s totally delicious if prepared correctly. I kind of always thought that only Jamaicans (maybe other West Indians too) ate oxtails until I realized that all sorts of [...]
A few weeks ago I was killing time at Chapters and decided to visit the magazine aisle. Of course I ended up looking at food magazines and came across Saveur. It occurred to me that I had never read an issue so I did a quick scan and then decided to buy it. There were [...]
May 032010
For some reason I’m obsessed with braising right now. If I could eat all of my meats braised (possibly in wine) life would be crazy. This is odd of course because it’s spring and I should be eating light and fresh, not heavy and braised. But if my body wants braised I’m giving it braised. [...]
Apr 212010
Clearly I’m a bit behind on my posting. This is what I had for Easter dinner! For me Easter means ham. Growing up my mom would never buy a whole ham because she didn’t like ham and my sister (misguidedly) doesn’t eat pork. So one year when I was living by myself and had no [...]
Apr 182010
Every once in a while I get inspired to cook something totally different. For some reason I’d been craving pork belly so when I saw it on sale at Fiesta Farms I had to pick up a pack. When I got home I threw the belly into the freezer because I knew I wouldn’t get [...]
Mar 272010
I’ve had Marcella Says… by Marcella Hazan for years but rarely use it. There’s no real reason why I don’t turn to it more often. I once made a salmon recipe (that I blogged about) that turned out fantastically. I blame it on the fact that I have a bunch of Italian cookbooks. Recently I’ve [...]
