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Sawmill Restaurant in Sherwood Park
Sherwood Park has a new restaurant. Well, kind of new. Tom Goodchild, who opened his first Sawmill restaurant in 1976 in Edmonton, has added to his chain by setting up shop in the space where Franklin’s Inn restaurant operated for years. The interior has been...
Turks & Caicos Food Notes
Our first meal on the island was at the Conch Pearl Restaurant at Northwest Point Resort. We were starving (and by that I mean it had been five hours since we ate last) and managed to sneak in just as the restaurant was shutting down for a couple of hours before...
Lemon Berry French Toast
I’m always on the lookout for new French Toast recipes, so when I picked up the April edition of the Food Network magazine, I was enticed by the cover showing a picture of dish my mom called Egg-in-the-Basket and also by the centerfold. There, in all it's glory, was a...
Pho & Bun: Edmonton’s Fab Pho
The debate of where to go for the best pho in Edmonton is a hot and steamy one. But my twenty year quest to find a Vietnamese noodle house—one that could hold a candle to my beloved but long-defunct Vientiane on 107th Avenue—has finally come to an end. I found the...
Kale Chips
I have fallen in love with kale, which is weird because up until recently I considered kale—along with brussel sprouts and cabbage—to be old people food. I mean who doesn't think of Grandpa and Grandma’s house when someone says "cabbage"? But lately I’ve come to love...
David Adjey: Fire in the Kitchen
As one of the food bloggers invited to a dinner/Q & A period with David Adjey, this year's Hokansen Chef in Residence at NAIT, it didn't take long to get a sense of the man. If there's one word I'd use to describe David Adjey, it would be “honest”. In a raw way. As...
Edmonton Butchers: The New Breed
Carnivores rejoice; there’s a new butcher in town! Darcy and Alicia Boisvert have opened Real Deal Meats at 2427 Ellwood Drive in Edmonton. If that address sounds familiar, that’s because Ellwood Drive is also home to my favourite Indian restaurant, Zaika, and the...
Argyll Foods: Mexican Food Store in Edmonton
Update: More info on Argyll Foods can be found at a September 2010 posting here.I love finding new ethnic food shops in the city and have to say muchos gracias to Cathy Walsh of Walsh Cooks for mentioning Argyll Foods in her blog. You wouldn’t know it by the name, but...
Alberta Yak: the new meat on the block
Anybody who knows us knows we aren’t shy about trying new foods. Weird, wild and wonderful pretty much describes what’s in our freezer right now: musk ox, alligator, alpaca, llama, bison, elk, and caribou (pictured below). There’s even some whale blubber (pictured...