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Mr. Eaty's Profile

Any Use For Papaya seeds?

My mom is absolutely obsessed with papaya seed salad dressing (or at least was obsessed, these things come and go pretty quickly). It was indeed pretty darn tasty though on a salad with papaya and avocado. This looks at least very close to the recipe she used:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Papaya-Seed-Dressing-10571

Vegan dinner for 6

Another note: Worcestershire sauce has anchovies and so isn't even vegetarian! (KC likely knows this but many carnivores cooking for vegetarians might not)

New Latin American Cafe in Junction

I finally stopped in here the other day and had one of their (apparently new) "fig and queso fresco" empanadas. I use quotes since the cheese did not seem to be queso fresco, but I think I'm actually glad about that: whatever (somewhat Swissy) cheese they used worked better, I think, than queso fresco would have. The empanada probably would have been too sweet on its own but eaten with the accompanying tomato and onion salsa, it was really delicious. I'll be going back for more soon.

Toronto Chow Family in SF

I'll let other people recommend specific venues but as someone who's pretty well familiar with the food in both SF and Toronto, I'll just recommend that you focus on Mexican and Thai. I think in most cuisines Toronto can match SF (with more or less ease) but for some reason, Toronto just has problems with those two.

If you were a chef on a yacht in the mediterranean, what cookbook would you take?

All these suggestions for Mediterranean and seafood cookbooks are good but...well, it's possible this is a personal problem but after I had been in South-East Asia for a month, what I wanted more than anything was Italian food (luckily you can get some very fine Italian delivery in Hanoi) and after two months in India, the last thing I wanted was more Indian food. After a few months of eating fish freshly caught off the side of the boat and prepared with the freshest ingredients the Mediterranean region has to offer, your friend might find that what his employers really want is some greasy Chinese take-out (even people with yachts and chefs and yachts with chefs on them eat greasy Chinese take-out sometimes, don't they?)

I need recommendations for vegetarian resto downtown

Bo De Duyen is no longer at that location. Supposedly it is moving elsewhere but I have no idea if that's actually happening (or has happened). At the very least, don't look for it at 254 Spadina.

Thanksgiving 'Iron Chef': Corn!

A restaurant in my area makes cachapas (though with corn meal and whole corn kernels, I'm pretty sure) and serves them with chipotle crema and queso fresco. So delicious.

I am officially in pizza delivery hell...I don't know what I did wrong in my last life.

Hmm, I thought maybe the issue was the location but what can I say besides that I've never had an issue with them. Caveat emptor, I guess!

Sri-Lankan Food in Toronto?

Maybe I was there on a, uh, on day but when I went to Saravana Bhavan recently, the place was spotless. The food was very good, though not as good as the one by the Shanti Theatre in Chennai. It's a hell of a lot closer though!

I am officially in pizza delivery hell...I don't know what I did wrong in my last life.

If you're at Castle Frank and Bloor, maybe give Mamma's another try but order from the Yonge and Bloor location this time? I've gotten pizza from there probably a dozen times or more and never had any problems. I can't compare with Bona Pizza (I'm slightly outside their delivery zone but seeing how crazy people are, I'm going to call and ask them) but I've always found Mamma's' pizza to be pretty tasty.