Last night was one of the biggest night of my year. I got to visit with Byron (whom Dana jokes is my cheese boyfriend) and we planned the cheese trays for the holiday season – if you missed the tips on buying holiday cheese you can see why I do this here. Buying cheese for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cheese’
11 Days of Feastmas – The coming of Cheeses
Posted in Special Series, tagged cheese, chrsitmas cheese, holiday cheese, st lawrence market on December 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cheese please… grilled cheese that is…
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged cheese, cheese please, comfort food, grill cheese, grilled cheese on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The smell of melting cheese, warming bread and the process that turns a pasty layer of hardened butter into a crisp golden sheen on the outside of a grilled cheese makes me salivate instantly. What is it about certain foods that opens warm sensations in our hearts, souls and tummies and transport us to places [...]
Parmesan dipped in chocolate (even better with beer)
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged beer, cheese, parmesan, parmesan and chocolate, stout, young's double chocolate stout on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Learned this trick a while back – and it thrills people. Cheese, chocolate and beer – pitter patter goes my little heart! While a little finicky, this is decidedly easy – and any that get “messed up” can be consumed by the creator. Mistakes pay dividends here friends! 1. Create yourself a double boiler – [...]
Kisses sweeter than wine
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged 25 year old vinegar, balsamic, cheese, De Nigris, DeNigris, vinegar on March 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pete Seeger sung the words of today’s title and I remember singing the song long before I actually kissed a girl – or drank wine for that matter. A few years ago I was shopping for cheese when my cheese boyfriend (more on that in a later post – lets just say that we all [...]
The Canton of Vaud
Posted in Cheese, tagged cheese, Food, gourmet, recipe, st lawrence market, Toronto on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today’s post is about Vacherin Mont D’Or - a glorious cheese from Switzerland that is available once per year – right around Christmas. It is from Switzerland, made in the Jura mountain region and the foothills below named the Canton of Vaud: This is unlike most cheese I’d ever had – an unlike anything I even [...]
Poutine Renaissance
Posted in !!!Uncategorized, tagged cheese, cheese curds, dangerous dans, fast food, Food, french fries, fries, hamburgers, jamie kennedy, poutine, restaurants, smokes, Toronto on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The city of Toronto is in the quiet throwes of a poutine revolution. It`s been coming for some time and I`m not on the edge of all things cool by declaring it`s arrival. But it is one of my favorite all-time foods – fries that eat like a meal! I have spent a lot of [...]
Cheese, Glorious Cheese
Posted in Cheese, tagged cheese, cooking, eating, Food, st lawrence market on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cheese is one of my all time favorites. I refer to my cheese-man as my heterosexual life partner, or cheese boyfriend for short. We often shop at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto and cheese can be 25%-30% of my weekly grocery budget. It took years to find a passionate, friendly cheese man who had [...]
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