Category: Food & Drink

Lunch was the high point at High Rocks!

Back Bacon & Brie on Ciabatta Bread

You often hear about people coming across charming country pubs whilst following meandering lanes in the English countryside. Well, on a recent trip to Old Blighty, we did just that! You can read full details about how we happened across this hidden gem on W3Junkie – Our sister blog. Of course, since we were in …

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Works for me!

Works for me!! If a burger’s your thing then The Works should be king! You can get one with beet? Or, without any meat! Whatever you choose will have zing! This particular Friday evening, the Supper Seven (who were yet again eight), decided to do something really adventurous and include the RCMP musical ride in …

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At Fil’s, you can eat your fill without inflating the bill!

Fil's Breakfast Menu

Fil’s Diner For breakfast in Hintonburg, you could go to Fil’s Diner It’s not quite the Ritz, but complaints would be minor! Blueberry pancakes not great, but home fries were good; And prices were fair for this part of the ‘hood. So, in a score out of ten, it’s almost a niner! Where we went: It …

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Is it just sitting on a stool that makes it High Tea?

English High Tea

So here we were, sitting in Marks & Spencer a few thousand miles from home deliberating about what we should have to eat for our very first meal on English soil. Regardless of our choice, there were some surprises in store for us. First and foremost for me, was the fact that M&S even had …

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Jean Albert’s needs to work on their soul!

See our complete gallery of photos from this visit

Is Jean Albert’s Ottawa’s sole restaurant serving soul food? Jean Albert’s the place for food that’s got soul But don’t go there Friday’s, if speed is your goal! You really should try the sweet potato chips Even though they’ll go from your lips to your hips Overall verdict? Needs work, on the whole!!… I must confess …

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Avacado & Tuna salad: Quick, inexpensive, healthy & nutritious!

Although it is often the case, things don’t have to taste or look bad to be good for you! You also don’t have to pay a fortune to have healthy and delicious meals. Our recipe today is a case in point. It’s not really even a recipe, just an assembling of ingredients. The only real …

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Pork Tenderloin with Cranberry-Orange Glaze – A mid-week marvel!

NOT the mad hatter's tea party

[ad#Google Adsense Banner468x60] This snapshot will remind Andreea of the days when she was still small! It was taken in a small French town called Bitche last summer. We never discovered what, if any, connection there was here to the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party but we all had a good time there. This summer will …

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Only 100 Calories? Personally, I’ll take the Chocolate!

100 Calorie Chocolate bar

[ad#Google Adsense links 468×15] It seems that just about everybody these days is counting calories! Dr. Oz, the latest of Oprah’s fitness gurus is always enticing us to eat healthy with some new Superfood! Personally, I find it all a little too much. My personal motto is: ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!’ Anyway, …

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The Salad Days of Summer

Although we do regularly eat salad during the winter, it is at this time of year when we Canadians start to think warmer thoughts, that it really comes into its own! When I was a kid, salad was synonymous with lettuce. The big, green, leafy kind that we used to think was great for rabbits, …

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And why can’t Easter be about coffee too?

Un-Chef Tiramisu

[ad#Google Adsense links 468×15]   If you have been following us for any length of time at all, you will already know that the Un-Chef doesn’t often follow recipes! Even when I come across one that I like, I usually read it, inwardly digest the basics and then make my own concoction. Generally, this will …

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