Recipes

Nomms Fried Chicken, SS15 Subang & Kota Kemuning

Nomms Fried Chicken, SS15 Subang & Kota Kemuning

Sourcing fresh poultry straight from the farm, pressure-fried for a juicy crunch, Nomms Fried Chicken has served up some of Subang's most succulent fried chicken for six years, with a second branch in Kota Kemuning. If you crave flavourful fried chicken that's crisp to the bite and tender to the chew, check out Nomms for a true winner of a chicken dinner (or lunch!).Nomms cooks all its chicken within two days of receiving its supply, ensuring super-fresh meat, chilled and never frozen, marinated with German vacuum machines and coated in the restaurant's own flour mix before being fried.These are chunky...

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Caroline’s Divine Tomato Sauce

Caroline’s Divine Tomato Sauce

Our friend Amy (The Kind Mama was photographed by her ) makes a lovely pasta sauce. It is so delicious, in fact, that I had to get in touch with Amy’s mom Caroline (an awesome woman, pictured below, who has more style than anyone I’ve ever seen!) to get her secret recipe. Well, it’s not a secret anymore! Thank you Caroline for sharing the recipe and its rich history! Red Sauce Spaghetti  Red sauce spaghetti has been the Christmas Eve dinner in my family since I was 7 years old.  My family suffered through a Swedish white dinner: steamed lutefisk,...

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Vela (Toronto)

Vela (Toronto)

I keep reading about the staffing shortage in Toronto, especially amongst the hospitality industry, where people have supposedly changed careers to find a role that has better hours, more stable pay, better growth prospects, etc. Vela doesn’t seem to suffer from this problem, three individuals checked in on us throughout dinner service. Their front-of-the-house and open-faced kitchen seemed stacked with individuals, no shortage here! Firstly, to quickly sum up the experience - the meal was exquisite. The albacore tuna crudo ($21) arrived in huge chunks rather than the 1/3-inch slices generally found at other restaurants… a surprisingly generous portion of...

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Lasagnette alla cacciatora col pollo (Pasta Cacciatore)

Lasagnette alla cacciatora col pollo (Pasta Cacciatore)

If you ask the average Italian what they think of pasta and chicken, you’re likely to get a negative reaction. A very negative one in fact. That’s certainly the view among my Italian acquaintances. To them, a dish like Chicken Alfredo is an utter abomination. So I always assumed that Italian cookery simply didn’t have any pasta and chicken dishes. That assumption was borne out in Bugialli on Pasta, Giuiliano Bugialli’s extensive survey on Italian pasta dishes, where he says that in Italian cookery “there do not seem to be chicken sauces [for pasta] analogous to meat, duck or rabbit...

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Kilometer Zero, Food to Feed the Future

Kilometer Zero, Food to Feed the Future

  Growers Taking the World by Storm the Shortest Path Possible When I was child, we used to visit my grandmother’s farm in lower Michigan, where there was plenty to entertain a young boy. A barn, animals, an old pickup. Even an old tractor tire fitted to a tree for a swing. Though my memory of my grandmother is fuzzy-we didn’t visit often and I was twelve when she died-one thing I have carried with me through my life is an affinity for one particular breakfast dish. White rice with brown sugar. Not many people have heard of or much...

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