Nuit Mange – Food, food and more food

23Sep09

Mary from Toronto had asked me why I haven’t updated my blog for a while. I apologize for not given much attention to this site. I have mainly been Twitter (@productionteams) my food quest.

Updates: I did find some good eats in Toronto:

  • Good dessert place in Toronto: Sweet Tooth on 50B Danforth
  • Pain au chocolate: La Thobors Boulangerie on Mount Pleasant
  • Cheap eat: Student Eatery on Danforth at Greenwood
  • French bistro: Tati Bistro at 124 Harbord Street west of Spadina
  • Great, affordable dim sum place: Rol San 323 Spadina Ave
  • Fancy dim sum place: Pearl Harbourfront
  • Great Japanese food: Sushi Garden north of Yonge/St. Clair across from Xocava
  • My favourite Japanese restaurant: Sho Gun at 154 Cumberland St in Yorkville
  • Home style Italian lunch: Boccone @ 1378 Yonge St
  • Hungarian family style restaurant: Bacsi Restaurant on Yonge, north of Davisville
  • Best chocolate drink: Xacava at Yonge/St Clair and SOMA in Distillery
  • Best dumplings: Mother’s dumplings on Huron Street at Dundas
  • Best crepe, especially when it’s -20C outside: Crepiere a Go Go on Yorkville and Yonge
  • Best casual French chain: Pain de quotidien at Yorkville and Yonge
  • Meanwhile, I have come up with a few cool recipes:

      Homemade Korean BBQ
      1/4 bottle of Korean Shorts Ribs sauce (can get at TNT). Rinse ribs, massage sauce, roast @ 400F – 1 hour (flip at 30 mins)
    Homemade Korean BBQ

    Spinach and Smoked Salmon Pastry Balls
    Spinach and Smoked Salmon Pastry Balls

      Various ways of pastry balls:
      – Smoked Salmon, Feta Cheese, and Frozen Spinach
      – Prosciutto, Feta Cheese, and mushroom
      – Just tried this combo last night at Jamie Kennedy’s resto: Cauliflowers and Prosciutto.

      Merry asked me for the recipe:

    • Pastry: Frozen phyllo pastry / phyllo dough from your favourite grocer.
    • Fillings: A box of frozen spinach (thawed and dried), a few pieces of smoked salmon (I usually get it from the St. Lawrence Market (or Granville Island for those in Vancouver) and get the end bits), and feta cheese.
    • Thaw phyllo pastry. Layer 3 phyllo sheets and glue the sheets with egg whites. Cut into 3″ x 3″ squares. Brush melted butter to the base, then add a mush of spinach, smoked salmon, and a few clumps of feta, then take each side and glue them together with egg whites and twist top to make the package secured. Repeat.
    • (Can be substituted with phyllo dough, then grab a handful of dough and flatten the dough to fit it on your palm, then add the mush, and glue the package together with egg whites.)
    • Then baked them at 400F for 15 minutes.
    • Keep them at room temperature for 15 minutes before serving.
    • Let me know how did yours go?