Cooking and Food
Food cooked and related
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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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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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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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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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The Canadian Patty Summit of 1985
I’m a so so fan of patties. Rather, Jamaican patties, to appease the bureaucrats from the mid 80s. Typically because the meat tends to be dried out by the time I get one…
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Moen, where have you been this last decade?
A decade ago when we renovated and moved into our home, I got a faucet from Rona that was on sale. I remember it being a Moen but at some point, I took…
