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Originally posted on FineDiners.ca
I’m not super-experienced in the kitchen, but I’m hoping that in starting this site it’ll help encourage me to get better and try new recipes and experiment in the kitchen and that I’ll learn a few things along the way. So this weekend I tried out one of the recipes I linked to in my first Recipe Box post last week: Braised Beef Short Ribs. This was my first time braising, and I know it’s not like it’s a complicated method of cooking or anything, but I was really looking forward to trying it out – it just sounds delicious!
Making this dish wasn’t really time-consuming (excluding the cooking time), but it tastes like it was slaved over! I served the ribs over Yukon Gold mashed, with some roasted carrots and small white potatoes (and a glass of Chianti of course!) This was also the first time I’ve tried plating something I’ve cooked and tried to make it look good enough to photograph… clearly I need more work in that department, but hey – it tasted great!
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The Recipe Box feature on FineDiners.ca features recently found recipes that have caught our eye from around the web. Some we’ve tried, some we hope to try soon.
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Had lunch at Fraser Café with some work peeps today, and it was great! Our party was mostly split between the Cheeseburger with Smoked Bacon and the Pulled Pork Sandwich, though one person did venture to order the Quail, and the starters that hit the table were the Broccoli Soup and the Beet Salad, and all were well pleased!
Located in New Edinburgh, just off Beechwood (in the original location of The Works), the place is small and bustling and has a great fun atmosphere. The service was exceptional and the restaurant’s namesake brothers were welcoming and friendly. Apparently it can be pretty tough to get a reservation for dinner here, but lunch is a great value and definitely a good introduction to the place. Can’t wait to get back there for dinner!
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Sundance Film Festival starts today, and man I wish I was there. Someday I’ll make it. Toronto is so much more do-able and happens at a much better time of year so that’ll remain my priority, but there’s something about Sundance that keeps drawing me towards it. So, some day. Maybe next year.
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The Recipe Box feature on FineDiners.ca features recently found recipes that have caught our eye from around the web. Some we’ve tried, some we hope to try soon.
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ByWard Market Walkabout Winter Feast
Tuesday, February 10, 5:30 pm
Reception: Courtyard Restaurant, 21 George Street, Ottawa
Experience a five-course, wine-paired meal at five of the ByWard Market’s top restaurants — Courtyard Restaurant, Luxe Bistro, Murray Street, Empire Grill and Restaurant e18hteen — with a sommelier as your guide. Your evening begins with a reception, and continues as your group strolls from restaurant to restaurant to taste and savour each food and wine pairing. Bundle up, wear comfortable footwear and prepare for an exciting winter dining experience in the heart of the beautiful ByWard Market!
$130 per person*
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Yes, I admit it, I love 24! The Day 6 debacle aside (man, that was a terrible season), I have enjoyed every season, regardless of the plausibility issues and repetitive trappings and all of it… and this review of the first two episode arc of Day 7 on AV Club gets to some of why I love it:
“And then there’s Jack himself. As part of the promotional material Fox sent us for Day Seven, I got a McFarlane Toys “action figure” of Bauer in his most familiar pose: two-hand gun draw, satchel slung over one shoulder, getting ready to ruin some bad guy’s day. Looking at the toy now—it’s sitting on top of my cable box—it occurs to me that the main reason I dig 24 is that at heart it’s a super-hero show. Sure, it obeys semi-realistic conventions, and Jack has no readily acknowledged powers, but c’mon; he’s got a regular outfit (jeans, dark shirt, bullet proof vest), he can do things nobody else can, and in the end, he always wins, even while his personal life turns into utter shit. As played by Keifer Sutherland, Jack is the ultimate proof of the Hitchcock maxim: you love a guy who’s good at his job. Only Bauer goes beyond good to be damn near unstoppable—and instead of making the series fall over its own ridiculousness, each new evidence of Jack’s constancy makes you root for him all the more.”
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