Recent Delights, Vol 15.  Eat. Eat. Eat. Jan12

Recent Delights, Vol...

Some wonderful oysters brought to our annual Ukrainian Christmas meal by our friend Christine Comeau.   Most people had them with lemon slices but I, of course, had to have mine with a few drops of hot sauce. Totally slammin’ salmon.  Five different types of smoked salmon are arranged...

May The Schwartz Be With You Jan03

May The Schwartz Be ...

The task seemed easy enough.  On our trip from Rothesay to Mississauga, we’ll pop into Montreal on the way for a sandwich. Easier said than done. On the way to Mississauga on December 23, we drove into Montreal, taking the St. Denis exit off highway 40 as I’ve done a million times...

Clean out the fridge, Japanese style Dec27

Clean out the fridge...

I am in a grocery store every day.  I generally do not shop with a shopping list.  The result?  Loads of great looking ingredients with nothing specific in mind to make with them. So every once in a while, soup is in order.  Sometimes it’s Italian themed, with tomatoes, sausage,...

The best thing about Ontario?  Halifax. Dec24

The best thing about...

The donair has been much loved and often maligned over the years.  I’ve been in both of those camps but more recently I’m most certainly a lover of this East Coast original. When I first moved to the Maritimes in the late 90s, I had my first introduction this wrap.   At first...

Recent Delights 14.  Shoot your lunch! Nov29

Recent Delights 14. ...

What do you do when you’ve got just two meatballs and a bit of sauce leftover from a spaghetti dinner a couple of nights previous?  You assemble Hawk’s Extra Tiny Over Sloppy Uber Tasty Meatball Sammich.  Patent pending. Cabbage rolls with tomato sauce.   Along with some perogies...