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It's my favorite winter dinner of the year! Once a year it's fun to get a few friends together, and instead of spending what could be a month's rent in a restaurant, we buy out own ingredients and fantastic wine and cook at home... here's what on deck this year.

Course 1: (the wacky martini munchie course)
charcuterie, cheese, crackers, spicy hummus.
Paired with:  beer/cocktails -- try my garlic and herb de provence infused martini

Course 2: ( the soup and salad course )
Grilled butternut squash soup, mixed green salad, and my home made candied pork belly bacon bits
Paired with: Bollanger Champagne 

Course 3: (the i get an excuse to use my truffle slicer course)
cheese soufflé with shaved truffle, brioche with foi gras.
Paired with: 2002 vintage veuve clicot

Course 4: (the celebration of eating things with parents course)
treo of meaty: farmed venison loin chop, lamb loin chop, cherry smoked sliced duck breast  on a bed of cranberry wild rice topped with red wine reduction.
Paired with: 2007 pinot noir reserve - ontario

Dessert: (the blow you out of the water with the best ice cream ever course)
home made baked goods, 2007 Double Chocolate Cherry Stout Ice Cream.
Paired with:   double chocolate cherry stout, Peche mortal, creme brule stout, coffee, open territory on my liquor cabinet.

I'll be presenting a cooking and pairing with beer demo on the Entertaining At Home Stage at the The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair this Friday Nov 6th from 3-4 pm. The delicious beer I'll be using is from Cameron's Brewery.  I'm still figuring out what I'll be cooking but you can be sure it will have some beer in it! There should be plenty of free samples kicking around so pop by and enjoy if you happen to be at "The Royal"


http://www.royalfair.org/

I totally messed up the date, the taste patio opening is this Sunday....not Saturday

Looks like yours truly will be whipping up some more tasty vittles for the Patio opening @ Cafe Taste this Sunday May 25th from 7-11 pm, if you have an adventurious pallet and live around Toronto this is shaping up to be a great week! Visit www.cafetaste.ca for more info, or if facebook suits your fancy, check out the event page here



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I'll be doing the cooking this month for Cameron's "Lets Drink The Cask" night, on Thursday May 29th from 6pm to 8pm. It's an honor for me to be invited to prepare some delicious food to complement the always interesting one of a kind cask ale that the talented brewers over at Cameron's make just once a month.  For more information, visit the Cameron's website.
http://www.cameronsbrewing.com/caskNight.html

I Just received confirmation that the Fort York BBQ Competition will have to be moved to an alternate location.. This is very sad for our team as many of our team member are in downtown Toronto and without cars... Looks like we'll be dropping out.

NOT!!! here's snapshot of our neighbors rig, totally trashed from the microburst wind we had .

What a great weekend! After we were hit by a 100mph winds, and a 10x20 tent bashing and trashing into our rig, all was good! Lots of bbq was consumed, lots of tasty beverages were also consumed. The team I helped out did pretty well, although we didn't place in the top 3 :( it's all good though as it was an amazing weekend. Gallery of photos here: http://bbqblog.ca/Merlin/

I'm off to Merlin for BBQ Competition in about 20 minutes. I'll try to get internet access sometime this weekend and post some photos.

I'll be in Merlin, Ontario this weekend, supporting another BBQ team (The Q Crew) Jump in the car and pop by if you feel like getting out for a nice tour this weekend. There's only one park in Merlin, so it should be super simple to find!
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