Dining

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   michaelminorgan@yahoo.ca PUMPKIN BREAD WITH TOASTED  CHESTNUTS It’s that time of year when leaves go out in a colorful blaze of glory and pumpkins submit to the harvest and to all sorts of ‘artful’ abuse. Pumpkins are also always a traditional part of Thanksgiving and Halloween where they welcome all […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   michaelminorgan@yahoo.ca CORNBREAD  Corn has been a staple food among Native Americans for thousands of years, long before European settlers arrived in the New World. These settlers who resided in the Southern English colonies learned original recipes and how to process the corn from the local native tribes. Cornbread has […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca  TOMATO SAUCE A top quality tomato sauce is a rare bird indeed, but when made correctly it can be sublime and totally delicious. It depends on two very important things, the quality of the ingredients and the method of preparation A tomato sauce is considered in many cuisines […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca Greek Pita Pita bread can be baked so it forms an inside pocket when opened up, as it is used in many Middle East counties or it can be baked in the traditional Greek style, pocket less and used to wrap souvlakis or gyros like a sandwich or […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca Le Maistre or The Master would, by definition, indicate someone in control and a master of whatever he or she was involved with, always striving for the best. Le Maistre has been a staple on the popular and ‘trendy’ Monkland Blvd for quite a few years serving French […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca CHIPOTLE CHICKEN (OR SEAFOOD)AND CORN CHOWDER Another summer crop is now hitting the local markets and farmer’s stands lining the cornfields in the country…Corn. Corn is probably one of the oldest foods to grace our planet. Known as maiz in Spanish its use has been documented to prehistoric […]

GOAT CHEESE AND TOMATO TART  By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca This is the time of year I eagerly wait for every summer, the time when our local markets are overflowing with delicious ripe tomatoes of every possible variety. I am a huge unforgiving fan of this delicious fruit, I even take it upon […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca THE MEXICAN BURGER The hamburger is the iconic North American dish  ever more popular and visible at our summer bbq’s. It might well be universally thought of as American, but one of the many  claimants to its creation is a Danish immigrant to the USA and the owner […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca Greek cuisine, like that of Italy, depends primarily on the quality of its ingredients and the abject simplicity of their preparation. When you combine these qualities with their proven potential health benefits how can you go wrong and not enjoy eating them. There are several types of Greek […]

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   minorgan@yahoo.ca White Asparagus Soup Asparagus, a seasonal spring and early summer vegetable, is one of the healthiest vegetable choices we can make. It has been used for its delicate flavour and medicinal and yes ,even its aphrodisiacal qualities, as far back as 3000BC in Egypt. Its points d’amour (“love […]