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Save the date (March 8, 2011) for Kitchen Sisters: A Fundraiser Feast
For 18 years, as food editor and food columnist for the Toronto Star, I shared my passion for things culinary.
Most important and gratifying was the joyous connection it gave me to people who enjoy and prepare food – from the Filipino taxi driver who enthusiastically described how his mother makes Chicken Adobo to the firefighters with whom I cooked and then ate a luscious, convivial meal of grilled chicken and rhubarb crumble at their downtown Toronto firehall one lovely evening.
Posted in San Francisco, Sleuthing, Women
Tagged 100th anniversary, balsamic vinegar, calamari, chicken adobo, firehall, food columnist, food editor, homeless women, international women, julia child, kitchen sisters, lovely evening, mobsters, profit groups, taxi driver, temple kitchen, top women, toronto star, witness protection plan, women chefs
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Pomegranate Seeds and Other Salad Secrets
I know the name Ruby Watchco keeps popping up in this blog — and it’s for good reason.
The meal Ross and I enjoyed there one Saturday night a couple of months ago was simply stellar, “simply” being the operative word. The uncomplicated, vibrant flavour and texture combos of each and every dish from the sensational salad with still warm buttermilk biscuits to a wondrous baked apple bathed in silky sabayon were all that good food should be.
Posted in Restaurant, Salad, Sleuthing, Toronto
Tagged baked apple, bell pepper, bitter greens, endive, final touches, finished salad, janu, kensington market, leaf lettuce, lynn crawford, operative word, pomegranate seeds, produce store, rice vinegar, sabayon, smidge, sunflower seeds, sweet note, warm buttermilk biscuits, watchco
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Secret to Ultimate Meatballs Revealed
Dear readers, more proof that when I say something, I keep my word.
Posted in Beef, Recipe
Tagged clever folks, cookbook library, cup raisins, dry skillet, food network, grated cheese, hunger relief, italian theme, italian tradition, james beard awards, lamb meatballs, meat dish, meat mixture, michael lomonaco, plain yogurt, tender texture, toasted pine nuts, windows on the world, wine food, wing ding
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