I Am... The 6ix: Toronto City Guide
Believe it or not, both Mike and I had never been to the East Coast of Canada. That is, until last month, when we hit up Boston and decided to fly home via Toronto. At that point, I was all seafood-ed out and looking forward to diving into giant containers of poutine. I didn't look up anything in Toronto at all, thinking that we'd eat poutine all day, every day. I have to admit, going into it, I had zero expectations, good or bad. Well, actually, that's not really true. I kind of sort of went there not expecting much. All my friends here, on the West Coast, kind of think Toronto is a dump – sorry Torontonians! But, we figured we'd give it a good shake. After all, Drake loves the 6ix, why wouldn't we?
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I Am... Easter Egg Round Up: Devilishly Good Deviled Egg Recipes
I love deviled eggs! They're the perfect retro snack/appetizer/anytime food. To be honest, I'm not sure why people make deviled eggs around Easter. I think it has something to do with the fact that they have a lot of decorated boiled eggs lying around? But do people even eat the eggs that they decorate? Personally, I have no problem just boiling up a dozen eggs specifically for deviled eggs because, hello deliciousness! Here's a quick round up of the deviled eggs recipes that have been on I am a Food Blog throughout the years.
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I Am... Carrot Loaf Recipe
I'm a carrot cake purist. Give me a plain carrot cake over one filled with nuts or raisins or pineapples because carrot cakes with things in them are so not my jam. But, just in case you were wondering, I'm all about pineapples on pizza, no question there.
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I Am... Welsh Rarebit Recipe
Yesterday Mike and I had a little midnight snack! We aren't really midnight snackers, but I had just finished watching Blue is the Warmest Color and was feeling peckish – there are a lot of spaghetti shots in the movie. Which is very long and very French and very much full of sexy lesbian scenes. It won a Palme D'or in 2013 and is very highly regarded, except on Netflix, where it has a rating of one star. When Mike suggested it I was a little skeptical but was very quickly drawn in. Mike not so much because he fell asleep. The acting was excellent so I recommend it if you like foreign films about the exquisite ecstasy of falling in and out of love.
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I Am... Easter Eats: Jamie Oliver’s Lamb Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
I love shepherd's pie with a passion. Well, wait, let me correct that statement: I love cottage pies because that's what I grew up with, the main difference between shepherd's and cottage being what kind of meat you use. Shepherd's pies are made with lamb because shepherds herd sheep and cottage pies are called cottage because...well, I'm not too sure where that one comes from.
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I Am... Sunday Brunch: How to Make Breakfast Strata without a Recipe
Recently, I found a sad baguette lounging on the kitchen countertop. Mike had picked it up, with the optimism that we'd eat it, I don't know, for breakfast or something? I think we had about a quarter of it one morning, with some soft scrambled eggs. We both promptly forgot about it, until I discovered it, old and forgotten, left to languish without having fulfilled it's life's purpose.
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I Am... Boston: A City Built on Seafood
[caption id="attachment_17960" align="alignnone" width="1450"] I love the fact that this gorgeous building was on Milk Street. If only all streets were named after food![/caption] Seafood towers make me really excited. I can still remember my very first ever seafood tower. It was with Mike, very early on in our budding romance, at a downtown Vancouver institution. I had a day off from work and it was a gloriously sunny spring day, something that is rare in our grey city. The sunshine had a celebratory sort of feel to it and to make it even better, Mike took me on a surprise date. We sat on the patio and Mike ordered a seafood tower. I had never had one before and I'm not sure if Mike was trying to impress me, or if it was just because he had a thing for seafood, but when it came I straight up turned into the heart-eye emoji. It was glorious and ever since then I've been a huge fan of seafood towers, because what could be better than sunshine, icy-cold fresh seafood, and your favorite person?
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I Am... Sunday Brunch: Breakfast Pizza with Ham and Egg Recipe
I'm obsessed with mini things. I want everything mini. Mike even bought a Mini Cooper because he knows I love mini things. I can't help it, I just think everything mini is better! Just this morning, Mike and I were chatting about how I want to make breakfast grilled cheese and I said, what about MINI breakfast grilled cheese sliders? He straight up shot me down because according to him: mini does not taste better.
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I Am... Friday Finds: 3.31.17
How can it be the last Friday in March already – tomorrow is April?! What is this madness? I'm looking forward to seeing what kinda fun April Fool's jokes are abound on the internet tomorrow. Other things I'm looking forward to: dumplings tonight with friends, sunny weather (I hope!), making Mike fancy cocktails, and Easter baskets!
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I Am... Delfina’s Secret Pork Sugo Recipe
Do you ever get a craving for something you once ate in the past that you can’t quite put your tongue on? I have that problem with Italian - I’m always chasing this one sauce I lost years ago. I ordered it from one of the very first proper Italian restaurants I ever went to and was blown away. At the time I didn’t think to note down the name of the dish or restaurant, because in my youthful hubris I assumed I’d always remember.
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I Am... Miso Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
The rain has been non-stop, which means soup season. I'm not complaining because Mike and I have been on a soup kick lately. We'll make up a huge batch and eat it for lunch and dinner. You think we'd be sick of soup by now, but we're not. At least, we're not sick of different soups...I accidentally made too big a batch of a miso pork soup the other week and we were eating it for what felt like forever.
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I Am... Homemade Cheddar Bay Biscuits, Red Lobster Style
I got to be honest with you guys, I've never been to Red Lobster – they don't have Red Lobster in here. But, I have seen a lot of Red Lobster commercials watching TV while in the states. Commercials that make those cheddar bay biscuits look irresistible. Plus, I know people who actually head across the boarder to eat at Red Lobster specifically for the biscuits. One of my friends even brought back some of the biscuit mix for us to make together.
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