My Table Talk guest tonight, Lehee Lev of Whole Self Fitness and Living Centre, is a self-professed sweet potato fanatic. So I've put together a menu that showcases the flavours and versatility of this healthy local veggie. Organic local sweet potatoes and carrots with a choice of chicken or oyster mushrooms, in a rich coconut Thai […]
Learn how to grow, cook, and cure sweet potatoes. Also learn which varieties to choose for a savoury, sweet, or dessert dish. And how they differ from yam selections. Leehe Lev is a personal trainer, fitness instructor and healthy eating expert. When she’s not selling at one of the many Farmer’s markets around the city, […]
Every Wednesday – Veg Out with Emily Zimmerman Emily tweaks the original English ‘Bubble and Squeak’ -- a stir up of leftover potatoes and napa cabbage that would actually bubble and squeak in the pan -- by using fermented cabbage a.k.a. Korean kimchi and grilled jerk tofu, tingling your tongue in all the right ways […]
Tunisian cuisine features all the hallmarks of delicious North African food: complex spices, combinations of fruit and meat, Mediterranean ingredients and a hint of French colonial influence. Tagines, the flavourful stews that range from Morocco to Egypt, get there name from the characteristic conical dishes of the same name that they are most often cooked […]
Chef Michael Kirkwood, a 25-year veteran of some of Toronto's top fine-dining kitchens, has recently launched The Birchwood Kitchen, a culinary project focussed on contemporary Canadian cuisine with an emphasis on the best local and seasonal ingredients. For this elegant menu, Chef Michael has sourced true local delicacies like fresh pickerel from Georgian Bay, young […]
There is no surer sign of spring than the first crops of fresh local veggies like fiddleheads, rhubarb, young radishes and baby carrots beginning to pop up all over the city. How to savour these fleeting delicacies for more than just a few brief weeks? By preserving them, of course! Join Christine Manning of Manning […]
Jiggs Dinner (also called boiled dinner or cooked dinner), is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in and around Newfoundland. Variations can be found all around the North Atlantic, from the New England Boiled Dinner, to Irish Corned Beef & Cabbage, to Portuguese Cozido. Jiggs was the Irish central character in a […]
Fogo Island, Newfoundland, is the most north-eastern point of the most north-eastern province in Canada. It's so remote, wild and ruggedly beautiful there, that it feels like you've arrived at the edge of the Earth. Once a thriving fishing outport, Fogo Island saw its population decimated by the collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery in […]
Every Wednesday - Veg Out with Emily Zimmerman As the signs of spring are budding, Emily’s making everyone a tasty and timely pizza primavera, traditionally a colourful dish, saturated with herbed tomatoes, yellow peppers, roasted eggplant "anchovies", plus a ramp and spinach pesto. Each plate comes with an arugula, cannellini bean and mushroom salad on […]
A great nut loaf is a truly lovely, if rare creature. Like it's meatloaf cousin, when done right it is a comfort food classic; hearty and warming, tender and delicious. Scott Graham makes a traditional nut roast full of hazelnuts and chestnuts, flecked with aromatic thyme and sage, along with parsnips and sweet potatoes for […]
