This was my favourite dish from my recent trip to South Carolina & Georgia - I even brought back a 10lb bag of stone-ground Carolina white grits to share with y'all. Tender pink shrimp sauteed with peppers, onion, parsley & Old Bay seasoning, over creamy soft white corn grits, with bacon gravy and a side […]
Every Wednesday - Veg Out with Emily Zimmerman Simple but tasty southern combinations full of fresh veg from Fresh City Farms! Main -- Red Beans, Rice and Crumbled Tempeh + Southern-Style Swiss Chard with lemon, green pepper, and scallions + Roasted Root Vegetables with a Chili-lime Glaze $12 Dessert -- Chocolate Sweet Potato Pudding topped […]
January Pop-UP Showcase: Comfort Food for the Cold by Moira Clark and Alia Toor Friends and collaborators Alia Toor and Moira Clark return to The Dep for January’s Pop-Up Showcase. Keeping with their love of homestyle comfort food, Moira and Alia have prepared some hearty and warm menus for the cold of the winter. First […]
You might know Natalia (aka Cookie Martinez) from her popular cookies and ice cream sandwiches, or her Colombian Street Food stall at Scadding Court's Market 707 - Toronto's First Shipping Container Market. This Friday, Cookie will be making her famous Ajiaco, a traditional hearty Colombian chicken soup, along with tasty empanadas and a decadent chocolate […]
There was such an overwhelmingly positive response to Paula Costa’s sold-out Ottolenghi-Inspired Supper Club in November, and so many more tantalizing recipes in Yottam Ottlenghi’s award-winning cookbooks (Jerusalem, Plenty, and the just-released Plenty More), that a follow-up dinner was a no-brainer. Paula has chosen a whole new selection of Eastern Mediterranean dishes Israeli-born, London-based Chef […]
Organic food entrepreneur Lejen Chen leads this fun, hands-on class on how to make 3 of the most popular dimsum snacks eaten throughout China: wontons, jiaozis and shaomai. The class covers all the steps of dumpling-making: prepping the filling, creating the skins, shaping the dimsum, and cooking techniques. The last step - enjoying them - requires […]
Pozole refers to the giant kernels of nixtamalized corn (aka hominy, maiz cacahuacintle, maiz mote or giant corn) used to make tortillas, as well as the famously hearty soup that features them – a dish whose history reaches back to Aztec times. While the red pozole rojo of Jalisco is well known outside of Mexico, […]
Every Wednesday - Veg Out with Emily Zimmerman Stack of crispy tofu pancakes with a soft centre filled with gingered vegetables like fresh scallions and radishes from Fresh City Farms plus a broccoli and red cabbage slaw with herb-roasted potatoes. $12 Dessert: Orange Marmalade Cashew "cheese"Cake $4 #vegan #GF Pay What You Can after 7:30 […]
Friends and collaborators Alia Toor and Moira Clark return to The Dep for January’s pop-up showcase. Keeping with their theme of homestyle comfort food, Moira and Alia have prepared a hearty Shepherd's Pie with a vegetarian option perfect to combat the cold. Their traditional Shepherd's Pie is filled with ground turkey, lamb, carrots, onions, parsley, […]
With Toronto facing another cold winter, something has to be done to take the edge off. Justin Go, of Dutch food pop-up Borrel thinks the answer to beating the cold might lie in the kitchens of the Netherlands. Long accustomed to cold, damp, bone-chilling winters, Dutch culture has come up with some amazing comfort food […]
