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• Best in Show: Quality Cheese Ricotta almost like eating cream–and why fresh cheese is trendy

  

  Trying to spread the word about all the Grand prix winners and especially about the Grand Prix Champion, the first time a fresh cheese came out on top and a first for Ontario as well.  This really opens the door...

  by sueriedl - May 01, 2013

• Homemade Ricotta, So Much Easier than Pie (guest post by Ally Chang)

  

  How did I get so lucky to have two of my talented friends blog recipes on Cheese and Toast this spring?  First Johanne Durocher made Saag Paneer and now my friend Ally Chang (another cheese obsessed cohort) will show you …

  by sueriedl - April 12, 2013

• Gourmet Jelly Shots-French Martini Style

  

  I was dubious.  Gourmet jelly shots.  I even skipped these in university in lieu of the much cooler and more sanitary mixing of a garbage can of Purple Jesus  (Go Gaels!). But when we decided to try them for The …

  by sueriedl - April 09, 2013

• Baby Potatoes with Normandy Butter and Roquefort …at midnight?

  

  It midnight–past midnight. And I was checking email when I found this picture on my desk top.  It’s from a Lazy Gourmet piece I did a few weeks ago for the Globe.  OK, I may not make at 1 am …

  by sueriedl - March 23, 2013

• Canadian Cheese Grand Prix -Behind the Scenes as a Judge

  

  There we are, all eight soft-lit happy cheese eaters.  I thought I would introduce you to my co-jury members from our Grand Prix judging last weekend and mention how proud I was to be a part of this team!...

  by sueriedl - February 27, 2013

• Curds and Eh: Crannog Ale-organic, farmstead and from BC

  

  While traveling across Canada last summer I was chatting with a cheesemaker in Alberta about my love of farmstead cheese and I mentioned that I wished there were farmstead breweries in Canada. It turns out I was talking to the right person...

  by sueriedl - February 25, 2013

• Scrambling for Valentine’s gifts Toronto? Relax, have some chocolate…

  

  Remember that old Blondie song “Rapture”?  Well, I think it was written about the above hand-made chocolates from Xoxocava. (Also, my friend Rina and I won a lip-sync contest in high school singing that song–my hair was big and that …

  by sueriedl - February 11, 2013

• Hot and Sour Soup: The cure for what ails you

  

  It finally hit me.  The flu–yes that one.  Where you think you might be able to get out of bed while lying very still (in bed) but then put two feet on the floor, feel dizzy and realize, “nope, not …

  by sueriedl - January 23, 2013

• Curds and Eh: Best New Cheesemakers 2012 by Kelsie Parsons

  

  It seems like every couple of weeks there’s a new cheese factory popping up somewhere across Canada. What an exciting time to be involved in cheese! Through this post I’d like to call attention to some of the best new cheesemakers out there...

  by sueriedl - January 10, 2013

• Elegant and scrumptious - Brown Sugar Shortbread

  

  In case you ran out of Christmas cookies before Christmas (what?  it was only me?) you will have a perfect reason for making more.  I took the opportunity to make–for the first time– a family recipe passed on to me …

  by sueriedl - December 25, 2012