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Slow Food Picnic at the Brick Works

Last weekend rIAm, MTMT and our lovely friends (and MTMT’s godparents!) headed over to the Evergreen Brick Works for a Slow Food picnic. Really, it was a feast. I love a good food event and this one was top notch. So many interesting bites of food and so much great wine and beer to sample, [...]

Food, Inc

It has simply become a matter of course for rIAm and I to eat as much as we can with the season and as little as possible from the industrial food supply. We’re not growing (much of) our own food and we have limited storage space, so preserving the summer’s bounty for use in winter [...]

Fresh Greens Pasta

It’s been a long while since we’ve posted a recipe but this one is deserving because it has become a staple and rIAm’s new favourite pasta. In fact, it’s so good it’s nearly replaced pasta e broccoli, although that has more to do with rIAm’s total revulsion to broccoli in pregnancy and the fact that [...]

Good Eating

One of the wonderful things about when my parents visited was coming to Roncesvalles to show them our neighbourhood-to-be. We hadn’t moved in yet, but we could show (from the outside) our new place, and walk up and down the great stretch of shops and restaurants. With the idea of getting dinner at the end [...]

Omnivore’s 100

Thanks to Chocolate & Zucchini, I discovered The Omnivore’s Hundred, an eclectic and entirely subjective list of 100 items that Andrew Wheeler, co-author of the British food blog Very Good Taste, thinks every omnivore should try at least once in his life.
He offered this list as the starting point for a game, along the following [...]

Roti and Ribs, Oh My!

I’ve gone and done it again, posting to blogTO and leaving pastabroccoli behind. But not for long, I say!
In any case, check out my review of Vena’s Roti, where you can get some top notch stewed meat and/or veggies inside a perfect roti. And don’t miss my pre and re view of Toronto’s ribfest, which [...]

Best Thai Food in Toronto

Looking for your Thai food fix in Toronto? Interested in trying one of the city’s best? Check out my blogTO post about the Best Thai Food in Toronto.

Baan Thai: Delicious Thai Food

rIAm and I visited Baan Thai in the Junction a little while back and had a very good meal. I did a review with lots of nice pictures over on blogTO.