The Cartoon Kitchen: Tomato Fondue
I don't get it. This isn't fondue. When the cartoon reads "serve on the side", does that mean on the side of fondue? Or, is this simply meant to be fondue-esque? In which case, what do you eat it with?
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The Cartoon Kitchen: Celery Root Purée
I made this once, It was a lot of work - just getting a celery root peeled is pretty laborious. Unless i was being 'careful about my carbs' and desperately wanted to eat something mashed-potato-y, i wouldn't consider this worth my time.
Toronto Wedding Reception Restaurant Recs
Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner would probably be beautiful! I went there for dinner a few weeks ago and could so easily visualise it for a wedding.
Also, The Fifth would probably be great (but, like Jamie Kennedy, quite expensive). Sunnybrook estates are also beautiful, although not a restaurant. The Drake Hotel and the Gladstone both also do weddings, and would bring your wedding some 'downtown cool'.
And keep in mind... you can do some pretty delicious and sophisticated things with meat and potatoes!
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
The ultimate grilled cheese sandwich includes either dijon mustard smeared on the inside of the sandwich, or worstershire sauce sprinkled inside, or quite possibly including sauteed onions.
The recipe presented here just gives you a good ordinary grilled cheese, exactly as good as all the other ordinary grilled cheeses.
Canadian Cuisine?
And just curious - to the commenters who think that canadian food is bad/food in canada is bad, what food are you talking about, exactly? 'Canadian' food, whatever that is? Or are you actually saying that there is no decent cooking in the country? (Which is patently ridiculous, considering that the kind of food and the range of quality is virtually identical to what you'd get in the states.)
Canadian Cuisine?
I live in toronto, and i've never really had game in my life, until a few months ago at a high-end restaurant. And in Ontario (and anywhere that's not British Columbia or the Maritimes) we don't get any more fish and seafood than you would anywhere in the States. When i think of Canadian-specific food, I think of Montreal smoked meat, poutine, and tourtier, which are all actually Quebecois foods, rather than generally Canadian. Butter tarts, nanaimo bars, and back bacon might be 'canadian', but they're hardly 'everyday foods'.
I think canadian food, at this point in time, is mostly about the ethnic mix of where you live, and whether you are on a coast (ie related to the seafood thing.)
My Seven Go-To Foods for the New Year: What Are Yours?
Ed, if you 'suffer' through the non-extra-sweetened yogurt for a while, it will begin to taste sweet enough. Give it a shot. Having a palate that is trained to prefer food that is extra-sugary is a guaranteed way to prevent weight loss.
That being said, here's my list:
- Sushi
- Soups (non creamy, but otherwise any kind)
- Chickpeas and beans
- OATMEAL (this is truly the ultimate diet food - it can be flavoured however you want -try diced apples, cinnamon, splenda or sugar, and slivered almonds- and it keeps you full for hours and hours due to all the fiber and lean 'perfect protein')
- Eggplant (roasted in the oven and then drizzled with a miso/honey/sesame oil sauce)
- Edamame, pomegranates, and artichokes: healthy foods that can be a good munchy slow snack in front of the television.
Serious Eats Gift Guide: New York Food
Other than the hot dogs, this seems more like a "great jewish food" list than a "new york food" list, at least to me. If you're ever in Toronto or Montreal head to their older jewish neighbourhoods and enjoy!
Toronto - Where to eat?
I actually dislike the taste and quality of the food. Everything is beautifully presented, but everything tastes exactly the same (they use the same 3 or 4 sauces for all their dishes) and very little of it actually has any relationship with actual asian food. Its homogenized 'asian food'.
I know several people who like it and more people who hate it. The food doesn't actual taste that bad but it certainly doesn't taste as good as any of the hundred thai/vietnamese restaurants scattered around the city. If i was visiting Toronto and was focused on trying good food, it's certainly not the place I'd want to try on my trip to the city. It's a bit like recommending the Olive Garden.
Toronto - Where to eat?
Good advice so far! I also agree that Spring Rolls is crap, funnily enough I also refer to it as the "fast food of thai food". Otherwise, i agree with all the suggestions above, including the one for Now's guide. I specifically second the reco's for 'Aunties and Uncles' and Easy for brunch.
You should also try Chinatown (Dundas and Spadina) in general, anywhere you walk into will likely be delicious and cheap. The Pomegranate is a fantastic and cheap persian restaurant on College St near Bathurst. Torito in Kensington market seems pretty cheap (it's a tapas restaurant), but it can unexpectedly really add up when you pick a bunch of 'small things' - but it's really delicious. And not horribly priced depending on your standards of what 'cheap' means. It's on Augusta south of College, in Kensington. Tabule (middle eastern food) on Yonge St between Eglinton and Davisville is also really good.
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The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Aw, man! I totally need to learn how to deglaze plans! In Poland we're too lazy to butter four sides of bread, so we just make grzanki - an open faced grilled cheese toasted in the oven, then slathered with mayonnaise (ew) and ketchup (double ew). American grilled cheese is WAY better. Especially with Sriracha.
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Sigh... why does no one get the true secret to a perfect grilled cheese sandwich? The trick is this. Butter ALL FOUR SIDES of two pieces of bread. Then put the two pieces of bread in the pan until the pan-sides are crisp.
Then, flip both slices of bread over and put the cheese on top of one of the slices THAT WAS JUST COOKED. Then put the OTHER cooked side on top of the cheese. Cook sandwich as you normally would.
By putting the cheese between two HOT sides of bread instead of between cold sides, the cheese is perfectly melted by the time the bread is crisp on the outside.
Two advantages -- you don't have to wait so long or constantly check to see if you are burning the bread AND you get even more of the delicious crispy crunch, which is the true joy of a grilled cheese sandwich.
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
@wunami: My style is to butter BOTH sides of both slices of bread - makes it extra good. Most people I know only butter the outside of the bread though.
Another tip - don't try to be healthy and use Smart Balance or other type of 'butter substance'. That stuff will never brown and just gets the bread soggy.
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
I thought all of you grilled cheese connoisseurs would appreciate this:
http://www.grilledcheeseinvitational.com/
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
What's the deal with buttering only one of the two slices of bread. Also, is it buttering both sides or just one? And if just one, then the inside or outside? When you stick it in the pan...does the already buttered slice go first or second?
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
@BreweRepublic:
Are you talking about mayo inside or outside? I always make it with mayo smeared on the outside instead of butter. It gives the sandwich WAY more flavor.
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Looks good! But add a thin slice of ham and one of a perfectly ripe tomato, and you will know perfection.
Canadian Cuisine?
Torontonians are not the most well-liked people in Canada. I grew up in central Ontario and moved to the GTA a few years ago. They are very snobby and rude, I guess they are the American equivalent of New Yorkers. Must be because its city life.
As for cuisine, most people have touched on it. Wild game, seafood, poutine, maple syrup, beavertails (but I grew up with them being called Moosetongues), peameal bacon etc.
The prepared foods in Canada are unique, such as dill pickle chips, coffee crisp, crispy crunch, kraft dinner, and Tim Hortons. Other than that, I think our cuisine is very similar to American.
Canadian Cuisine?
@2muchfood, slightly OT, but I have heard that Torontians (sp?) are so uptight and rude - what gives?
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