Canadiana
Nov 25th, 2009 |
By Peter Minakis
Today is the eve of the American Thanksgiving and many of you are either traveling or busy prepping for tomorrow’s huge dinner with family and friends.
Canadian Thanksgiving occurs in October (fell on Oct12th this year) and one of the dishes I wish to share with you is this homemade pumpkin pie. You have already planned [...]
Posted in Baking, Canadiana, Dairy, Dessert, Dough, Eggs, Festive, Pumpkin, Recipes, Spices, Sugar |
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Nov 6th, 2009 |
By Peter Minakis
Up here in Canada, we have our own franchise of The Food Network…are you ready for the name? Food Network Canada.
Us Canadians get to view [...]
Posted in Almonds, Baking, Cake, Canadiana, Dessert, Flour, Nuts, Quebecois, Recipes, Snacks, Spices, Sweets |
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Jun 30th, 2009 |
By Peter Minakis
One of the first blog posts I wrote was on the subject of ribs. Us Canadians love ribs, we love to grill and in fact you’ll find some of my posts where I grill in the middle of winter!
I recently had friends over for a BBQ and although it was mostly a Greek feast, I [...]
Posted in American, BBQ, Canada Day, Canadiana, Condiments, How To, Meat, Pork, Potato, Recipes, Sauce |
56 comments
Jun 28th, 2009 |
By Peter Minakis
This upcoming week will kick off the holiday season what with children out of school and parents are gearing up for family vacations. Next week also marks the arrival of July and a very important date for Canadians is July 1st – Canada Day.
Us Canadians celebrate with pride our very young but thriving, prosperous and [...]
Posted in Appetizer, BBQ, Beef, Canada Day, Canadiana, Festive, Greek, Greek Food, Greek Grill, Liqueuer, Main, Meat, Meze |
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Apr 14th, 2009 |
By Peter Minakis
Seeing as how it is Holy Week for the Greek-Orthodox, most of us are fasting in some degree and we’re also juggling the duties of preparing for the big feast that awaits us this upcoming Sunday for Easter.
Toronto boasts of having about 120,000 Greeks in the Toronto area, over a dozen churches and our very [...]
Posted in Canadiana, Cheese, Coffee, Condiments, Dairy, Easter, Greek, Greek Pantry, Honey, MISC, Sausage, Spices, Talk Toronto |
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Mar 17th, 2009 |
By Peter Minakis
One of the sources of inspiration for my cooking is to be found right here in Canada. I’ve relayed to you how I live in a multi-cultural country where many influences cross, overlap and borrow from each other.
I don’t think one can really “pin down” Canadian food other than it being diverse, both comforting and [...]
Posted in Bistro, Canadiana, Cheese, Herbs, Main, Mushrooms, Olive Oil, Pork, Potato, Recipes, Vegetables |
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Mar 9th, 2009 |
By Peter Minakis
My blog has been trucking along since the Spring of 2007 and most of you are familiar with my travels to Greece and love of my native cuisine, Greek food.
Being a Greek who lives abroad (Diaspora), I feel lucky that my parents chose Canada as the country of choice to start a new life and [...]
Posted in Beef, Bread, Canadiana, Charcuturie, Cheese, Condiments, Dairy, Dessert, Herbs, MISC, Olive Oil, Olives, Sausage, Spices, Talk Toronto |
56 comments
Oct 2nd, 2008 |
By Peter Minakis
Anyone living in Canada or anyone who’s visited here or knows a Canadian, will understand why we’re sometimes called “crazy canucks”.
From a cooking perspective, throw any bad weather at us and if we want to eat something grilled, we’ll grill it in the worst of weather conditions.
I’ll grilled outdoors when it’s pouring rain, extreme [...]
Posted in BBQ, Canadiana, Herbs, Honey, Main, Meat, Pork, Recipe, Spices |
58 comments
Sep 29th, 2008 |
By Peter Minakis
Today, I’m cooking with a black ingredient, a new ingredient. I’m talking about black trumpet mushrooms.
The black trumpet is a Chanterelle mushroom and although you may not find them fresh at your market, one can easily find the dried variety (which I bought at my local Asian store).
I don’t think I’ve ever cooked with a [...]
Posted in Canadiana, Main, Mushrooms, Pork, Recipe, Roasting, Sauce, Spices |
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Jul 12th, 2008 |
By Peter Minakis
One of the bonuses of food blogging is you sometimes get to meet your fellow bloggers. An even rarer occurance is when you meet one from your same town/city and you greet each other as though we were old friends getting together to play “catch up” and spend the day together.
Such was the case this [...]
Posted in BBQ, Canadiana, Herbs, Latin, Pork, Recipe, Spices |
57 comments