Truly Unique Pizza on King and Jarvis

I recently had the opportunity to try True True Pizza on King Street, just east of Jarvis.  The pizzeria, which recently reopened after re-branding from One Pizza, offers uniquely shaped, oblong, personal sized pizzas with a variety of different toppings where customers can customize to their liking.  These toppings include the usual suspects found in […]

Chopped Canada, Season 3, Episode 18: Asparagus Stuffed Guinea Fowl

Ingredients for the main course were as follows:  guinea fowl (gamey poultry), purple mustard seeds, barbecue flavoured rice crackers and green asparagus – pretty simple compared to other weeks.  As soon as I heard about the ingredients, I thought of breaded guinea fowl – stuffed with asparagus, sundried tomatoes and goat cheese.  Why not? The […]

Chopped Canada Season 3, Episode 17: Fresh Horseradish? Elk Ribeye?

Hmmmm….what can you do with those?  And nacho cheese flavoured chips?  And seaweed sheets?  I mean, I could go all pubby, slow cook the elk and  then make nachos with it.  However, that wouldn’t really be a main course.  I would cook the elk, wrapped in seaweed and then serve it with a fresh horseradish, […]

Taking a Gap Year and Immigrant Parents

Reading that Malia Obama is taking a year off before going to university, had me thinking about gap years.  I graduated from high school a long, long time ago.  In the last century.  When I graduated back in the late 90s, the internet was young (we had dial-up), people still watched movies on VHS and […]

Chopped Canada Season 3, Episode 16: Macaron Crusted Pork Tenderloin Skewers

The appetizer round ingredients for episode 16 consisted of cassis flavoured macaron (one faux pas I heard during the episode – at least ONE contestant (a professional) pronounced it MACAROON.  If you’re in the culinary industry, shouldn’t you KNOW it’s MACARON?  Macaroons are a different species entirely), jalepeno peppers, pork tenderloin and loquats.  The first […]

Looking for Mother’s Day Gifts?

By T. U. Dawood Wondering what to get your mother on her special day?  DelectablyChic! is back with its Annual Mother’s Day Gift Guide by T U Dawood.   For the Mother Who Likes to Take Care of Her Skin and Look Younger: Eau Thermale Avene has a highly effective collection that features PhysioLift Precision (above), PhysioLift […]

Chopped Canada, Season 3, Ep 15: Sun Dried Tomatoes and Beetroot Powder Pizza

The appetizer round consisted of the following ingredients: beetroot powder, pepperoni, sun dried tomatoes, and long beans.  Since this is an imaginary meal and I’m also not a contestant on Chopped, I have all the time I have.  Thus, I’m going to make pizza (actually, I’ll probably make some sort of open-faced sandwich if I […]

Being Chinese and NOT Eating Rice Often

I rarely cook rice at home.  I haven’t even used my rice cooker since November 2014!  And I’m of Chinese descent.  As a child, I ate rice nearly daily – always at dinner as I ate western-style breakfasts (eggs and toast or cereal.  Sometimes, a very unique version of oatmeal my grandmother made consisting of […]

Chopped Canada, Season 3, Episode 14: Using Sticky Rice to Make Dumplings

Jong – eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival is a tradition in Chinese culture.  Called zongzi (or simply jong in Cantonese), it is often served savoury with ingredients such as duck eggs, sticky glutinous rice and nuts (usually peanuts) and wrapped in bamboo leaves.  It resembles tamales from Mexico.  Since episode 14’s dessert ingredients included […]

I’ve Been Without Wifi Since Sunday

And the Internet access I’ve had has been through my phone’s hot spot, thus racking up my cell phone bill thanks to data usage.  This completely sucks.  We thought we would be getting better and faster service.  But NO, that was NOT the case.  Instead of getting faster service, we ended up having NO service […]