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Community cooking with “A Pinch of This”
This article appeared in the Toronto Star on September 19, 2009. The project yielded a cookbook called “A Pinch of This.” Buy it here.
Geanie Sarjue lifts the lid on a big saucepan in which water is bubbling away on the sturdy commercial stove. Amid puffs of steam, the faces of five mackerel stare up at us.
Posted in Chicken, Recipe
Tagged Jerk Chicken Recipe, spadina, toronto community foundation
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Spotted at Timmy’s in Trois-Rivieres
Coffee Break in Trois-Rivieres
Clad in one of my several animal-print coats, I succumbed to the coffee-and-cruller craving en route from Quebec City to Montreal and stopped for that all-Canadian traveller’s fix at — where else? — Timmy Ho’s.
This one, in Trois-Rivieres, was really hopping on Easter weekend. I spilled my coffee on the tailgate of my boyfriend Ross’s red pick-up. Luckily, as he noted sagely afterwards, it is lined with indoor/outdoor carpet.
Posted in Story
Tagged animal print, canadian traveller, coats, coffee break, cruller, easter weekend, Montreal, outdoor carpet, quebec city, ross, tailgate, timmy
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Tourtiere for breakfast — vive la difference
After a disappointing dinner at much-touted and chi-chi restaurant Toast! in Quebec City (pricey and, except for the Lobster Risotto, underwhelming), it was wonderful to wind up having breakfast seated on a stool at the counter of Buffet de L’Antiquaire : a charming, authentic diner on the edge of the old city close to the river.
Posted in Breakfast, Restaurant
Tagged boulet, chi chi restaurant, creamy mashed potatoes, eggs and bacon, fixin, gilles, home fries, homemade strawberry jam, lobster risotto, multi tasking, piece de resistance, quebec city, sausages, short order cook, stint, sunny side, tourtiere, vive la difference, warm welcome, wonderful place
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