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Where to buy Ritter Sport?
believe it or not, no frills at bloor near runneymede carries a large variety
Good place to get a cast-iron wok in toronto?
I've been considering mail ordering from the wok shop, though it's been fun finding new chinese kitchen stores in the city. I'm going to try to drop by Mississauga's little chinatown plaza to find out if they have any, and if not I guess it's wokshop.com for me!
Good place to get a cast-iron wok in toronto?
I dropped by Reliable on sunday and they only carry carbon steel woks. Some of the houseware shops in pacific mall carry some flat bottom cast iron woks but I hope to find a round bottom wok if possible.
Good place to get a cast-iron wok in toronto?
Hi all,
Since I just got through a kitchen reno and got myself a Bluestar gas oven from Costco (great deal, that!) I've wanted to get into wok cooking.
After some research I had decided to go with a carbon steel wok; I've checked nikolau but they didn't have quite what I was looking for, and eventually I visited Tap Phong and found a 16" (!!) cantonese-style carbon steel wok for $18 that seems pretty good.
However now I realize I'd also like to try a traditional northern-style cast iron wok as well, maybe a 12-14" wok. Not an american-made, thick-walled wok but rather a chinese style, fragile, thin-walled cast iron wok with a handle and relatively steep walls.
Does anyone have any idea where I can find such a wok in the GTA?
Thanks!
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Tap Phong
360 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON M5T, CA
ISO Chinese peach-shaped steamed buns
There are many bakeries in the area:
Hong Kong Island Bakery (my favourite around here) @ spadina+st andrew
Ding Dong Pastries @ spadina+st andrew
Furama @ spadina+one block south of dundas
Kim Moon @ dundas+one block east of spadina
I feel like I'm missing one other bakery on dundas quite near kim moon with a name like "queen" or "princess"
Source of Nigari in GTA?
Hi everyone;
I've been hoping to find Nigari ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigari ) so that I can make my own tofu with soymilk... does anyone know of a good source?
Caplansky's moving!!!
So I biked down to the Monarch Pub to grab a smoked meat sandwich today and to my surprise Caplansky's is moving!
http://www.caplanskys.com/
I'm sore that I went down there for nothing but I figured I'd pass the news along.
Balsamic Vinegar recs?
Check out the Olive Pit on queen street just east of Trinity Bellwood park. They carry a wide range of balsamic vinegars and olive oils and are always willing to let you sample everything, even the 15 year old stuff!
It's just below The Spice Trader which is another fantastic store (all spices of course)
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Olive Pit
805 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J, CA
New Hong Kong Style Bakery - 336 Spadina(? if my memory serves me correct)
You can get portuguese tarts at My Market Bakery in Kensington Market
Simple summer treats?
Hey everyone... what are the simple foods that you can't wait for summer to roll around for?
I ask because I just treated myself to a nice tomato sandwich and I'd forgotten just how much I love these.. I think I could subsist on these alone all summer! I can't wait till ripe beefsteak tomatoes are out there so I can gorge myself
I have to eat dinner at Fran's - what should I order / avoid at all costs?
I happen to really like their Monte Cristo sandwich!
Frozen Costco Appetizers?
not quite an appetizer, but I really like the frozen cream puffs you get in a plastic box at costco
David's Tea location opening in Bloor West Village on friday
Hey everyone..
I hate to sound like a shill but I'm a pretty big tea fan and living in the BWV area I've bought alot of tea at Say Tea, despite the terrible service. Every time I go I feel like I'm bothering the crotchety old women who run the joint.
Ever since I discovered David's Tea on queen I've shifted my allegiance over to them due to their friendly and obliging service. I found out that they're supposedly opening this friday so I'm looking forward to checking their digs out (they're opening right between Bloor Meat Market and Max's Market IIRC)
HEEEEELP - Need a chocolate souffle fast!
Last time I went to Morton's they had it on their dessert menu
ISO: bread making ingredients in GTA
IIRC active yeast has a thicker protective shell around the yeast and requires dissolving in liquid before use, whereas instant yeast can be mixed dry right into your dough due to its thinner shell
Dark Horse on Spadina
Sorry for the late bump but I've been meaning to try this place, so I stopped in for a cappuccino this morning and it was fantastic
BBQ Chimney Starters
Forgot to answer the question at hand:
if you can bum a ride up to vaughn mills area, these guys are supposed to carry them: http://www.bbqs.com/
BBQ Chimney Starters
FWIW my friend used to partake in charcoal-lighting contests in college and the fastest way to get your charcoals burning is a small vial of liquid oxygen.
Failing that, you just need to move more oxygen to the charcoal. The way the chimney works (as i understand it) is it creates air movement as heat escapes through the top of the chimney and more oxygen is then drawn through the bottom; unfortunately hot air only rises at a certain speed, and you can do better if you have some way to provide more oxygen to the charcoal instead of the chimney.
He recommended some sort of fanning (I guess to functions like a bellows) to provide oxygen faster than a chimney will.
YMMV
ISO: bread making ingredients in GTA
you can make your own, it take a week or two though
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htm
ISO: bread making ingredients in GTA
If you're really getting into bread baking I'd recommend actually cooking a loaf in your oven instead of in the bread maker.. the crust never comes out right on those machines in my experience.
A good starter would be a no-knead bread recipe, eg. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html
Exploring Kensington Market
Are you referring to the Hungary Thai?
If so, I've found the food to be subpar as both hungarian and thai food... I'd skip it.
Iberian Ham (Jamon Iberico) in Toronto?
I had bought some at the Fresh&Wild at the corner of King+Spadina
Exploring Kensington Market
I really like the Herculatte at Moonbean on St-Andrew St.
ISO: bread making ingredients in GTA
Seconded -- I've been trying to find any place to purchase bricks of living yeast (as opposed to instant freezedried yeast)... anyone have any idea?
ISO: bread making ingredients in GTA
St-Lawrence market has an extensive bulk-flour selection in the basement.. same guy who runs the dried beans/rice counter. You can get pretty much anything there.
New Hong Kong Style Bakery - 336 Spadina(? if my memory serves me correct)
I had a flaky egg tart there on friday and it was pretty good
ISO curing salts (sodium nitrate/nitrite) in the toronto area
So the butcher counter at Highland Farms at Matheson had some readi-cure which is sodium nitrite. I had to ask a few people until i got an actual butcher and not a counter person (who didn't know anything), but it was worth it.
I picked up a pig belly from St Lawrence Market (incidentally nobody there has curing salts) and I'm anxious to start my first attempt at pancetta!
ISO curing salts (sodium nitrate/nitrite) in the toronto area
Just an update, after talking to MANY pharmacists (most say their chemical supplier doesn't have any of this stuff so they couldn't order any even if I asked).. one of them told me to check out a pharmacist on bloor just west of Royal York on the south side.. they are a compounding pharmacy which means they mix many of their own drugs from scratch, so apparently they are likely to carry potassium nitrate / nitrite!
