The Week in Yum- A Cookbook and My Favourite TV Streaming Tips

Ridiculously excited about my newest cookbook, written by the chef from Contramar, my favourite Mexico City Restaurant



I am sad to say that there was not much going on this week.

NOTHING GOING ON APART FROM THE RAPTORS OF COURSE!!

My garden is my happy place and it's starting to really come to life!

It was a week full of getting up , going to work, dragging my ass home and going to bed after a big glass of wine. I do have a wedding on Saturday and then my sister is coming on Sunday for a visit so that is going to mean lots of great eating and exploring. I plan to take her to Niagara to check out some wineries, maybe a trip to Buffalo to hit up Trader Joe, I have an exciting restaurant opening on Thursday and in between, there will lots of eating so next week will be much fuller.

In the meantime, I will share a couple of cool finds one food related, one not food related:


YES I HAVE A TV STREAMING PROBLEM:


So, I never watched much tv, once I left my teens. I never understood the appeal of Friends or Dallas or whatever other show my friends were addicted to and much preferred movies to television.

That all changed with HBO. Suddenly, tv was being filmed and written with the same level of care and skill as the best films and was attracting talent that would have never been caught dead doing television.

The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire - I had so much to catch up on and that led to the discover that I am a binger. That's right, I have a binging problem. If I had a day off, I would watch an entire season of something. Night after night, Shack and I would lie in bed, using toothpicks to hold our eyelids open and whisper "just one more?"

The next thing you knew, it was 4am and the realization that the alarm was going to go off in three hours would set in BUT WE GOT TO FIND OUT WHETHER OR NOT WALTER WHITE WAS FINALLY GOING TO GET CAUGHT THIS TIME.

Aaaanyway, this has evolved into an obsession with Scandi Noir and instead of cable, I now pay to subscribe to MHz, Sundance, Amazon Prime, Netflix and Britbox. Since every man and his dog has Netflix, you don't need my recommendations but here is the skinny on some others.



So, I just finished the second season of an awesome Swedish drama called The Restaurant on Sundance Now and have moved on to the Belgian Cop drama "Public Enemy". The Swedish series Black Lake was scary enough to keep me watching, The Little Drummer Girl is great as is Next of Kin - still tons of stuff that I have on my list. Not to mention lots of great art house films that you might not see anywhere else. More thumbs up.


On MHz, you HAVE to watch all 7 seasons of "A French Village". It's an intense look at the reality of the German occupation of France during WW2 and how it effected a typical French village, starting on the day the German tanks rolled into town. I also really enjoyed a cheesy French cop show called Spiral mostly because their legal system is so different and I found it all really fascinating. The German series The Weissensee Saga was also super interesting and it's chock full of great Scandinavian shows. MHz is a keeper


We are halfway through season two of American Gods on Amazon Prime - it's a very weird little show and not for everyone, I get that, but we love it. Once we finish that, we will move on to Good Omens. If you have not watched Fleabag, seasons 1 and 2, what is wrong with you?? Change that. The Man in the High Castle, Homecoming, Transparent, One Mississippi, Tokyo Girl..... there are so many that I havent' had a chance to get to yet, but Amazon Prime is right up there with Netflix as far as producing their own, excellent content and gets all my thumbs up.


I signed up for Britbox to watch a series called Unforgotten but I have yet to find enough to justify keeping this subscription so I would suggest, get the free trial and watch Unforgotten and then if you don't find anything else to your liking, ditch it.

My Mexico City Kitchen
I was in Mexico City twice this past winter and ate at Contramar about 5 times. Shack and I both agree that it was, hands down, our favourite restaurant in a city of amazing restaurants so when I saw that Chef Gabriela Camara had a cookbook, I jumped on it like a hungry chick on a tuna tostada. If you love Mexican food and culture and especially if you have ever eaten at Contramar, this book is a must. I buy 90% of my books on Kindle and keep them on my ipad except for those very special books that I want to hold in my hot little hands, and this is one of them. I haven't had time to make anything from it yet as I am still in the new love, just reading it from cover to cover stage of the relationship but I hope to be able to share some of my favourite recipes soon.

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