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Bill’s Mapo Tofu
After Uncle Roger’s Egg Fried Rice routine blew up on the Internet and everyone had to make their version, it seems Mapo Tofu is in the background now. The first time I saw…
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From Jack-O-Lantern Pie To Fairytale Pumpkin Pie To Pumpkin Spice Syrup
My in-laws bragged to me about scraping out a used jack-o-lantern of wax or soot buildup, cutting, boiling and puréeing their Hallowe’en Jack-o-lanterns and using that to make pie for the rest of…
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Pesto, Shrimp and Scallop Pasta
I love pasta and seafood so I often combine the two. However, this wasn’t as tasty of a dish as I’d hoped. I think that in the past, I would cook out a…
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Pesto In a Mortar and Pestle
My parents never bought into the idea of a food processor with its spinning blade whipping and chopping whatever was in the bowl. As a kid, I thought it was the latest and…
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How You Treat Other Drivers Can Be Contentious
I was in heavy traffic and I saw some weirdness in my rear view. Not wanting to play frogger and try to leap around traffic in front of me, especially as there really…
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Spaghetti O’s and other canned pasta, my guilty pleasure food from childhood.
I’ve been accused of being a foodie and I guess that I am one. I love different flavours and enjoy what my multi cultural region around Toronto offers. But despite all that, I…
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Congee, An Old Favourite
My buddy Brian was talking about craving deep fried bread dough that is normally a Chinese breakfast/brunch item served with congee or wrapped in a rice noodle and dipped in sesame butter/paste/sauce –…
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Never ever be an ATM for someone.
That’s two $1000 cheques that the kid deposited and gave money back for. Maybe it’s because I’m old and cynical or I lived through an era where cheques were normal. I wouldn’t have…
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More dumplings from Georgia (the country)
We’re at restaurant Tifsli in the Beach (or Beaches) area of Toronto. It was on Anthony Bourdain’s travel food show that I became aware of this country being at the junction of Eastern…
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Cost of Fuel and traveling around the city
Before this month, I justified my riding and bike purchase with health and fitness. Cost is now a factor. I’ve put a deposit down on a new Brompton folding bike with the expectation…
