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We are having friends over for dinner tonight and since we slept in, breakfast needed to be something quick. Alan said “we can just have some eggs with toast”. As he stepped out the door to pick up some milk and bread, I quickly chopped a couple small tomatoes (one yellow, one red), a small [...]  The aesthetics of food is something that really appreciate. The photographer in me is always attentive to the light, or the colour, texture, or shape of particular foods. So I took one bite of a small slice of bread on which I had put some of my own antipasto and a slice of Dubliner cheese [...] Last week I tried the tomato sauce from Loffredo Farms and I was blown away. It was SO tasty. I bought another jar this week and ordered a box of 12 for next week. I’ll save them for the cold winter months when we have no more tomatoes around… I routinely eat vegetables for breakfast – often added to couscous or steel cut oats. But in these late summer days, when vegetables are at their best, I enjoy them in a simple marinate and served on top of a wholewheat toast of some kind. When I was making lunch the other day, I popped [...] It was a hot day today, Alan and I had run around all day and after having had a hearty lunch, we didn’t really feel like having a big meal for dinner. So I thought it would be good to make a salad with the intriguing greens I got from Kind Organics this morning. I [...] This is another good recipe in which to hide some zucchini. I came back from the market today with a craving for pasta and dying to try out Angela Russo‘s tomato sauce. I had half of a huge zucchini sitting in the fridge, and the bounty from today’s market. I started out by slicing an [...] It’s September and the farmers’ market was at its most colourful. The harvest is in and the variety of produce was phenomenal. We brought home: sweet peppers (yellow, green, red & purple) corn shallots fresh garlic basil melons (yellow watermelon & cantaloupe) purple & yellow carrots tomatillo (ok, this one was from Kensington, but still) [...] Sean, the new owner of our favourite bike shop, told us to check out his friend Sam’s new coffee shop on Harbord street. Heeding his advice and always eager to try a new local place, we cycled over. Turns out his friend is Sam James, considered one of the best baristas (if not the best) [...] |
 Hi, I'm Alexandra. Born in Brazil, Canadian by choice, and having lived in exciting Barcelona for a year between 2006 and 2007, my earliest childhood memories revolve around food and food is what I remember most about every place I’ve ever lived. After writing a more general blog for the past few years, it was time to organize my writing about food in one place. © All pictures on this blog are taken by me unless otherwise noted. About the title of this blog |
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