Ottawa Mag. For those of you in the know, the Ottawa magazine is semi-dedicated to providing good insight into the culinary landscape of the National Capital Region. This includes Ottawa and parts of Gatineau. It reports on the newest happenings, restaurant openings, restaurant closings, and any other events that could tickle the curiosity of a resident foodie. It also prints some very good reviews by some very knowledgeable people. Every so often, the Ottawa Magazine produces an issue that lists the best restaurants to dine in in the region, best upcoming restaurants, and restaurants with... | Continue reading article
St-Honore On my way down Somerset this weekend, I noticed that the second last dedicated Chinese bakery has closed its doors. The Golden Horse bakery, a former staple of Ottawa’s little Chinatown is no more. In its place is yet another Vietnamese pho noodle house: Pho Bo Ga La. This only leaves the St-Honore bakery, which is located at 363 Booth Street. Cake Sliced Serving Most people only know of St-Honore because it sells Chinese buns. However, it also sells Chinese-style birthday cakes as well. These cakes are both light and airy. They consist of... | Continue reading article
Geek Dish Ware I found this interesting piece of dish ware posted on digg.com. Does anyone else find it “convenient” that the value of pi is written on the lip of a circular bowl? Does this mean that someone is going to start marketing other geometrically shaped bowls with other things written on their lips? I wonder how well educational cereal bowls that teach children how to calculate the area and perimeter of the bowl as they eat would sell. Of course, if you look at the digg comments, people made the inevitable “pie plate”... | Continue reading article
Nachos Close Up Personally, I feel that nachos-making is a required skill. When the chips (pun intended) are down and you have a crowd to feed, nachos can be a very versatile dish. It is just one step beyond chips and salsa. It can incorporate meat to become a hearty meal. It can be served in a large communal dish on a coffee or picnic table. It can even be an a posh appetizer if you go so far as to separate, top, bake, and serve individual tortilla chips. More importantly, with some fresh ingredients,... | Continue reading article
NiHao Tea House The Holland Avenue NiHao Tea House had its grand opening this weekend. They couldn’t of picked a more beautiful weekend. Here are the lunch specials and the rather darling place settings that were on the tables in NiHao’s brand new outdoor patio. Here’s a link to an earlier posting on this tea house. To date, I’ve tried its bubble tea. Next will be NiHao’s dumplings. A good teahouse should serve good dumplings. Particulars: Nihao Tea House 81 Holland Avenue (613)722-0088
Mars Bar In 2004, what once was considered an urban legend was proven to be fact. People were indeed deep frying Mars bars. The confection was particularly popular in Scotland. Anthony Bordain even dedicated part an episode of Cooks’ Tour to the phenomenon. In the episode, he stopped by a Scottish fry shack for some deep fried pizza, a deep fried Mars bar and even a deep fried pickled egg before moving onto more traditional Scottish cuisine, haggis. It was a good episode. Bull Testicles Now, a recent article from Yahoo News reports that Wisconsin... | Continue reading article
As Advertised Sweet peppers (capsicums) are elemental ingredients to many summery recipes. As such, I decided to load up on peppers this week. I ended up using multiple coloured sweet peppers for a fried rice recipe that I will post soon. Mutant Peppers When my better half and I went grocery shopping on Saturday morning, we found the following slightly misshapen peppers in the bin. One has a tail. The other looks like it had a hard life. Though, they’re not really teenage or mutant, they sure stood out. They also gave several other shoppers... | Continue reading article
