All posts tagged: Cheese

Tuesday Night is Cheese Night – at Pangaea

I was overjoyed when Pangaea invited me to take part in their media event to kick-start their new Tuesday cheese night special!  With a warm greeting and a glass of champagne, I was introduced and quickly started chatting up many other successful foodies as well as Martin Kouprie, the head chef and co-owner of the restaurant along with Peter Geary, and their sommelier John Le Bihan. While starting with a little demo on cheese making, Martin got into detail about his wish to start making the restaurant’s own cheeses for their menu.  The process was a series of successes and failures until they came up with the perfect combination of milk, temperature, and other ingredients.  Their dedication to food and their enthusiasm towards the whole process is nothing short of inspiring.  It’s always so great to see people who are doing what they love and pushing the barriers; seriously though, who has heard of a restaurant making their own cheese?  It’s true, they’re the first Canadian and possibly even North American restaurant making cheese to …

The Locale: MoRoCo Chocolat

My last Winterlicious for 2015 but it was a good one!  Some plans had been rearranged last minute but luckily we managed to save the day and still got a yummy dinner in.  Accompanying me to this dinner was another one of my classmates from my summer abroad in Italy who has shown lots of interest and enthusiasm in my blog development which I have truly appreciated.  So lots of thanks for that Laura! (And many others I know) I don’t know what it is but every time I finish with exams, midterms, or a stressful week, all I’m craving is tartare.  It’s super random, I know, but luckily I got my fix here at MoRoCo after having a week full of essays and a long midterm.  The tuna tartare appetizer on top of fresh avocado was light and refreshing with a slight bit of zest and crunch from the onions mixed in; it hit the spot. The two of us were pretty torn on what to get for the main; either the truffled mac …

Cheese and Charcuterie for the New Year!

The New Year is fast approaching and this will be my last post of 2014!  For today I figured I’d write about one of my favourite ways to snack over the holidays; cheese and charcuterie plates.  Our schedule over the holidays is definitely more lax, so late breakfasts don’t leave us hungry when it comes around to lunch time.  Rather than having a whole meal, we whip together an assortment of cheese and charcuterie.  Here are some of my tips and tricks on mixing it up! First of all, this is where it all begins.  I like going to a restaurant supply store like Aubut in Montreal or Bourassa in the rest of the province.  In Ontario, the only places I’ve seen with a big selection of cheese for such an occasion is Loblaws and the Saint Lawrence Market.  The Saint Lawrence market actually has a huge selection of original cheeses like mentioned in my earlier post like aged wine, stout, and many others. Second, texture is important.  It’s never enough to have only hard …