The Yum Yum Factor

Check out my little feature on Parkdale's  The Standard Bar  over on Auburn Lane. It's a great little speakeasy, hiding away behind the Parkdale Pizza, accessed through what looks like a door to the alley or something, as speakeasy's are often accessed. Very smart move on the part of the owners of Parkdale Pizza, by the way - this way their space is utilized almost around the clock. Neighbourhood pizza joint by day, rollicking bar with tasty eats by night. Sublime Catering Insanity Michael Tong, Sublime Catering owner and visionary food master designed this insane foodscape for the opening of  Lot X performed by Adelheid  and I was thrilled to help with the execution. This dance performance, choreopgraphed by Heidi Strauss takes the dancers and the audience through several locations throughout Harbourfront Centre only runs until June 2 so if there are any tickets left, get on that. I would love to thoroughly explain the significance behind this food/art ins...

First of all, I have my new lap top so I can post again, with captions and photos and everything! So, this week was my first week back to work at Sublime, the catering company I have worked at for the last year or so. I took January off and that turned into taking February off and that sort of leaked over into March but here we are, mid March and I am back in the kitchen. After the first 9 hr day back ( I put 13km on my pedometer and never left the kitchen) and I came home and cried. My back was all seized up and I just wanted to curl up into a ball but I am happy to report, day two went much better and I even managed an afternoon event. Look at this tasty endive filled with roasted cauliflower/brussels sprouts, goat cheese vinaigrette and puffed wild rice Spicy Pork Ramen from Kinton on Baldwin I fit in a couple ramen stops, one at Kinton on Baldwin and another at Nakayoshi Izakaya on the Danforth. Ramen season is going to end soon, for me at least, so I need to cr...