I will admit it. Until very recently I had never had a raw oyster. I have wanted to try this foodie rite of passage desperately since I went to The Nova Scotia Seafood Festival eight years ago. You really have to try something so nerve wracking with an oyster connoisseur which I did not have at […]
Suzie The Foodie’s Pressure Cooker Butternut Squash Soup
It is that amazing time of year… Soup-making time! I wanted that same slow-roasted flavour from my butternut squash soup recipe but these days with winter coming and getting ready for the future housebound reality ahead, I have not had time to slow roast a butternut squash on a low heat for 2 hours. As a […]
Magical Butter Final Tests & Product Review
I had thought I had completed phase 1 product testing Magical Butter’s dark chocolate when I finished making dark chocolate covered strawberries. I was very, VERY wrong, which I did not know at the time, so I moved on to testing their milk chocolate. Milk Chocolate So the revolutionary idea behind Magical Butter is you can melt the […]
Spicy Hot Chocolate In A Gift Jar!
Magical Butter’s Dark Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
When I heard about Magical Butter’s compound dark and milk chocolate made with Belgian chocolate that is perfect for chocolate molding with no tempering required, I thought it was too good to be true but I wanted to believe!!! So I said yes to product testing their chocolate but I was not going to be […]
Chicken & Waffles At The Ellery
I am a little nervous to write about The Ellery. Right after I wrote about its previous incarnation, Melanie’s Bistro, it shut down. Then after I wrote about fried chicken dinner at The Forth right up the street, it closed down! Both were positive reviews. Then word spread that the owners of The Forth had taken […]
The Drinks of Summer & Pumpkin Spice Invasion
Anna Olson’s Pistachio Walnut Baklava
My brother-in-law’s favourite treat is baklava so I knew I had to make it for him for his birthday. But not just any baklava. Anna Olson’s baklava! She makes hers individually in these adorable cute little phyllo bundles with pistachios and walnuts. I know they look complicated but they are just a little time consuming. […]
Restaurant Review of Nakayoshi on The Danforth
I love that a walk down The Danforth is like a walk across the world. A Japanese ramen restaurant next to a Mexican Burrito House. It is such an adventure. The Inspiration My friends Vicky and Esther were visiting from Vancouver and just like old times we went out for ramen. Instead of Ichikame Shokudo on […]
