Today brought a return to more seasonal temperatures (with a windchill of seventeen below) and a long-awaited package… Continue reading
Tag Archives: Food
The Ribfest Comes to Whitby
A three-day grilling extravaganza – the first ever Whitby Ribfest, organized by the Rotary Club of Whitby Sunrise. Several traveling professional rib-teams were in town to romance us with their ribs and seduce us with their sauce… Continue reading
Beat the heat with Mango Lassi
My Punjabi in-laws may have been a hot-headed bunch but they knew a thing or two about keeping cool in extreme heat… Continue reading
Daily Bread – our relationship with roti
When I married into a Pakistani family a wealth of new experiences opened up to me, but by far the most integral and enduring were those concerned with food… Continue reading
Yummy Mummy
In support of Yummy Mummy Week, 10th – 18th March 2012, in the UK, I’m sharing this picture of cake with you. The instructions said “a cake…” but, hell, who stops at one? Continue reading
Chocolate heaven…
I am in chocolate heaven right now, HUGE, and I mean HUGE thanks to Lee Newman the driving force behind Stouffville Academy of Music & Dance, the beating heart of the performing arts scene in Stouffville, for picking up some imported Dairymilk from a shady corner store somewhere in the Scarborough area Continue reading
Sex up your weekend with some American-style pancakes
It has always been a weekend tradition in our family to eschew the cereal boxes in favour of something more elaborate. In England I used to make pancakes – the thin, light, Shrove Tuesday type, piling them up on a heated plate to be distributed at the table, liberally coated with lemon-juice and sugar, Nutella, honey, maple syrup or caramelised, spiced fruit. The kids would demolish them at the same speed that we could prepare them! Continue reading
“It’s chocolate Jim, but not as we know it…”
Following on from yesterdays post about my monumental Dairymilk disappointment, I thought about all those who are suffering in the same way I am. So today’s post will be a sweet reminder for all those Americans/Canadians overseas who can’t get their preferred candy fix! Continue reading
Dear Dairymilk
Before we moved here, I had heard rumours that chocolate tasted different in America… Continue reading
The Supermarket Experience
I thought it was about time I got my observations down about the differences between British and Canadian supermarkets, before I become so used to things as they are now that I no longer remember what jumped out at me when I first arrived here… Continue reading
Carnival cuisine that’s worth the calories – thestar.com
Carnival cuisine that’s worth the calories – thestar.com. No wonder there is an obesity problem here. “Deep-fried” must be the most used word in this article. Continue reading
Pepperoni is the new Cheese! – Food in Canada
The Toronto Star has been running a weekly series called “What’s For Dinner”, where a reporter goes to an Average Joe’s home to see what they cook for dinner and to inventory the contents of their freezer and pantry. This weeks’ lucky reader was a single “Mom” of two young children who served up something called Ground Beef Chop Suey… Continue reading
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