By Chris Garbutt
1. Can slow roasted tomatoes take you to heaven? Try it yourself.
3. Who has the best beer in the Canada? Check out the results of the Canadian Beer Awards.
4. Have you had edamame at home? You must. Here are some tips.
5. James Chatto of Toronto Life fame considers the future of cuisine in Toronto.
Categories: Dish · Drinks · Friday 5 · Ingredients
Tagged: beer, edamame, roasted tomatoes, slow-roasting, take-out, tomatoes, Toronto, toronto cuisine
By Chris Garbutt
Stephanie and I liked the Fall Foods 5 post so much, I thought I’d offer some more, with a focus on squash. It’s not just for Thanksgiving anymore!
1. Butternut squash soup is so passé. Try Acorn Squash Soup with Cumin and Curry Leaf.
2. Slice up that butternut squash instead and make a pastry.
3. It’s a recipe for Sausage and Rapini Stew, but the squash pulls it all together.
4. Save the seeds and roast them. Or keep them for planting.
5. Pumpkin is a squash, and now it’s a flavour for a beer.
Photo by Flickr user x-eyedblonde, used under a Creative Commons licence.
Categories: Friday 5 · Ingredients
Tagged: acorn, autumn pastry, beer, butternut, fall food, rapini, roasted squash seeds, sausage, squash
Fine Waters: A Conoisseur’s Guide to the World’s Most Distinctive Waters by Michael Mascha
By Stephanie Dickison
Okay, before you go and get all upset about a book about fine waters, just remember that there’s already a ton on beer, wine, coffee, and the like. Why not a book about water?
I mean, if you’re going to drink water, why not something a little more special than the brands you find at the grocery store next to the microwave popcorn like Cape Grim, Bernina or Llanllyr Source?
This book tells you the brief history of bottled water, flavours, and even on bottled water etiquette – what foods go with still and what ones to pair with effervescent.
And the bang of the book comes with the 100 Bottled Waters, complete with photos of the bottles (some are pretty swank!). There are tasting notes, much like you’d find in a wine bible, the region it’s from and its contents.
You might think it’s a silly book at first, but I expect that upon a closer look, you’ll be swept away and looking at bottled waters a little differently.
Categories: Books · Monday Review
Tagged: beer, effervescent, etiquette, microwave popcorn, region, still, water
By Chris Garbutt
1. Just for the heck of it, there’s Tahitian wine.
2. Cool, refreshing, and, uh, savoury: Cucumber-Rosemary gin & tonic.
3. Cold beer. Seems everyone’s celebrating beer this week. My favourites in the summer: Mill Street Organic Lager, Amsterdam Natural Blonde, and Steam Whistle Pilsner. For more on beer in Toronto, check out A Good Beer Blog.
4. I’m not usually one for liqueurs, but two make my list as summer favourites. Cointreau on ice is one. Or you could make this, which I haven’t tried. I love the orange flavour in Cointreau, much subtler than Grand Marnier, which can be a bit cloying. The other is a straight-up shot of the Czech Republic’s Becherovka, served supercold. Apparently it’s made with over 100 different herbs, but to me the strongest flavour is clove.
5. Seaking of liqueurs, here’s a limoncello gelato for dessert.
Categories: Drinks · Friday 5
Tagged: Amsterdam Brewery, Becherovka, beer, Cointreau, cucumber, Drinks, gin, lager, Limoncello, liqueur, Mill Street, pilsner, rosemary, Steam Whistle Brewery, summer drinks, Tahiti, tonic, wine
