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Finally, a nice cortado in Toronto

La Merceria
506 Adelaide St West (a couple of blocks west of Spadina)

Polenta casserole

I love polenta. Actually, judging by the number of cornbread recipes in this blog, you probably wouldn’t be surprised to find out I love most dishes made out of corn. A simple corn mush, polenta used to be a peasant food before North American restaurants started selling it as a gourmet food. It must be [...]

Cornbread for brunch

Ever since I got my cast iron skillet, I have been going nuts with the cornbread. Based on this sausage & onions cornbread recipe, I made my own version with spinach and then a vegetarian and non-wheat version.  On Sunday I varied from that basic recipe once more by replacing the zucchini with 2 cobs [...]

Local goodies

Last weekend, hubby and I went cycling around Newmarket, a town north of Toronto. The bike ride began and ended at the local farmers’ market, which was quite a site. LOTS of vendors and very interesting stuff. I couldn’t really buy much since we had to cycle home and space was limited in our paniers [...]