Phomidable Vegetarian Phở for Phour 20 Jan 2012 | 02:30 pm

Hogtown has no shortage of Vietnamese restaurants; when I lived in Riverside my favourite of which was the adorably decorated Hanoi 3 Seasons (named after the city that invented this delicious noodle-...

Phomidable Vegetarian Phở for Phour 20 Jan 2012 | 09:30 am

Hogtown has no shortage of Vietnamese restaurants; when I lived in Riverside my favourite of which was the adorably decorated Hanoi 3 Seasons (named after the city that invented this delicious noodle-...

A Daughter her father and the great corn shortage of 1990 13 Jan 2012 | 06:56 pm

A 30-Minute Home-Made Pizza that’ll Arrive Faster than Dominos and Taste Thrice as Delicious 9 Jan 2012 | 05:34 am

Most Canadian pizza chains are the pits. Dominos went through this whole makeover in the US because their crust tasted like cardboard and their sauce was both too bland and too sickeningly sweet, but ...

Lady Lazarus and Cooking with Wine 4 Jan 2012 | 04:53 pm

Happy New Year everyone! Today’s recipes are a triple wine threat of deliciousness. We threw a New Year’s bash chez nous and found a number of half-full wine bottles in the morning. This is how we wa...

Guilty Pleasures 8 Jan 2011 | 05:13 pm

I am not a big box type of gal, nor am I a chain type. I tend to gravitate towards mom & pop shops and independent cafes. If in desperate need of caffeination I’ll grab a guilty Starbucks coffee, but ...

Spadina Gardens: A Restaurant That Is Not On Spadina And Does Not Have A Garden 6 Jan 2011 | 02:07 pm

Ordering hot and sour soup is always a bit of a gamble. I’ve had brown hot and sour soup, red hot and sour soup, hot and sour soup with pork or with shrimp, some as viscous as honey. Often too sweet, ...

Saving Grease & Forgetting Graces 4 Jan 2011 | 12:52 pm

When I moved to Toronto Dundas West was a desolate strip, with a few Portuguese bakeries, but few noteworthy restaurants. One of the few saving graces for the brunch inclined on a Sunday stroll was th...

Christmas Break 26 Dec 2010 | 01:02 pm

Sorry for the hiatus! We’ll be back with your regularly scheduled reviewing in the new year. Expect posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!

Great Eggspectations 17 Dec 2010 | 12:48 pm

Now that you know how to choose fresh from foul eggs, you need to learn the tricks of preparing the perfect egg. boiling egg Boiling eggs is a tried, tested, and true method of cooking eggs and perh...