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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
