BOXED Toronto

06.03.13 

Last month, Chef Matthew Sullivan, the man behind the BOXED Toronto, finally announced the next installment of his pop-up dinner. It’s been awhile since the last one so I’m sure people had been anxiously waiting for this just as much as I was. A week or two after tickets started selling, the menu theme was announced:

Magnum Gold?!

Growing up, summer meant playing outside, swimming, and cold treats; the ultimate treat being either chocolate mint ice cream or that purple, green and magenta rocket popsicle. Such simple pleasures! Now there are so many more options when it comes to cooling down in the summer. Here's the latest, rather luxurious option: Magnum Gold?!

L’Ouvrier Chef Appreciation night: Nick auf der Mauer

05.27.13

Most of you will know Nick auf der Mauer from a little shop he runs with his wife Vicky that serves one of the city’s best sandwiches. It’s called Porchetta & Co. Ya heard of it? Well it’s a good place to be whenever you’re hungry, and even more so when they’ve got specials coming out of their kitchen such as their Breakfast Sandwich and Soft Shell Crab. A few doors down there’s L’Ouvrier, a restaurant and bar that recently began having a “Guest Pass Chef.” Last Monday, for their third one, it was Nick’s turn.

AGO: Florence at FRANK

05.22.13 

A little over a week ago, a small group food / lifestyle bloggers met up just inside the AGO (@agotoronto) to tour the Revealing the Early Renaissance: Stories and Secrets in Florentine Art exhibit. There was to be a really neat exhibit-inspired tasting menu afterwards at FRANK as well. Not bad for the middle of the week! It was one of the most enjoyable art gallery exhibits I’ve ever had.

Milk Bar’s Banana Layer Cake

05.10.13 

After a couple of posts leading up to the culminating “cake assembly”, it’s here! Most of the recipes in the Milk Bar cookbook require planning ahead with the preparation of different components before final assembly or baking. That “entirely from scratch” approach is, for me, what sets this cookbook apart from others.  

Milk Bar’s Banana Cream

05.10.13

Time to move onto part two of my Banana Layer Cake adventure! This component is actually part of the original recipe unlike the Cornflake Crunch that I substituted for the Hazelnut Crunch (my brother’s allergic to nuts). I found some uses for the leftover cream beyond the suggested ones in the Milk Bar cookbook so make a full recipe and enjoy what’s left after you slather it on your cake!

Milk Bar’s Cornflake Crunch

05.10.13

Happy Victoria Day!! ‘Tis finally time for a post and this one’s about baking. After I received the milk bar cookbook as a birthday present a couple of years ago, I’d been bookmarking a few dozen (who am I kidding, I want to bake everything single thing in that book!) recipes to try out in the attempt to relive my milk bar experiences in New York. Cereal milk soft serve with cornflake crunch was at the top of that bookmarked list.