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Chef Obsession Contest Winner!

Chef Obsession Contest Winner!

We had a lot of Chef obsessions, favourites and stories shared in the #AFChef13 #ChefObsession Contest – Tell Me Your Canadian Chef Obsession, Win Dinner at Fabbrica. What a great set of entries to chose from. You can see everyone’s  stories in the comments of the original post but let me give you a run down of the Chefs that were mentioned. Just in case you are looking for someone obsession worthy to cook you dinner, teach you to cook or be an inspiration! Here is the list of Chefs that do just that:  Aaron Joseph Bear Robe – @keriwacafe…

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Contest: Tell Me Your Canadian Chef Obsession, Win Dinner at Fabbrica

Contest: Tell Me Your Canadian Chef Obsession, Win Dinner at Fabbrica

In celebration of this year’s S. Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition, San Pellegrino has given me a $150 Gift Certificate to Chef Mark McEwan’s Fabbrica to give away to one of you.  Well, one of you who is brave enough to tell me about your Chef Obsession. Tell me about your favourite Canadian Chefs – each chef you tell me about gets you another entry in the random draw. You don’t have to know them personally, but you do need to tell me something about them and why you are obsessing over them (or they are your favourites). I won’t…

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We Have a Winner! #AFChef #FoodObession Contest

We Have a Winner! #AFChef #FoodObession Contest

The winner of my #AFChef Food Obsession contest is Alex! Alex won a $150 Gift Certificate for Lee Restaurant courtesy of San Pellegrino and theSan Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition!  Alex entered on Facebook (as did many of you) and said his current Food Obsession was: Street Food and or small hole in the wall type restaurants that offer none of the modern North American white table cloth atmosphere. It is all about the food and you can often tell you are near the place because of the awesome smell or the long line up of chatty happy patrons waiting…

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Contest: #AFChef Food Obsession

Contest: #AFChef Food Obsession

I have a well documented obsession with Paprika. I like it sweet.  I like it hot. I like it smoked.  I like it from Hungary. I like it from Spain. I love the wide range of uses for the sweet, spicy, rich, flavourful delight that is paprika. Ooops… this is supposed to be about your Food Obsession. What is your Food Obsession?  What is it that gets you going on and on?  What food, ingredient, dish do you find yourself fantasizing about?  It is the flavour, the texture, the colour?  What is it that excites your mind, body and soul…

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Longo’s: And The Winner of the Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular is….

Longo’s: And The Winner of the Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular is….

With Rochelle campaigning HARD for her photo to win and her diligence paid off as she garnered over 300 votes!  She even incited people to go vote because it was a photo of her in her holiday lingerie. Here’s how she described Festive Breakfast: My flatmate snapped this photo of me cooking breakfast. We had rudely been awakened by our fire alarm at 5:30 so we thought we would make the best of it and eat breakfast together. Not sure if I'm my favourite holiday cook but it was captured in the moment. Unfortunately, we don’t have prizes for 2nd…

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Longo’s: Vote in the Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular

Longo’s: Vote in the Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular

I need your help to pick the winner in the Longo’s Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular  Winner gets a New Year’s Eve Surf & Turf Spectacular Dinner from Longo’s.  That will include four steaks, bag of shrimp and lobster tails and a selection of other Longo’s goodies. The Winner will be announced Dec 29th after 3pm based on the most votes received. So I need you to vote! Please vote on your favourite(s) – up to 3. Now it’s time to vote for your favourite photo of their favourite cook in action!   Photos submitted by the talented: @tongueandcheek @DaLocalChef…

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Longo’s: Photo Contest – Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular

Longo’s: Photo Contest – Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular

ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED until 8pm Dec 28th As my Longo’s Taste Ontario Ambassadorship comes to a close, I wanted to wrap up with one big photo contest that you can all enter!  Late December is all about cooking, whether it’s rum balls, latkes, turkey, bibingka, black cake, tourtière, gingerbread or momos, so in honour of all this cooking and all the people doing the cooking, I’m holding the: Favourite Cook Photo Contest Spectacular Send me a photo of your favourite cook in action – a rockstar chef garnishing a plate, your mom sieving the gravy, your sister making latkes, your…

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Giveaway: Taste Ontario Taste the World at Longo’s Nov 30

Giveaway: Taste Ontario Taste the World at Longo’s Nov 30

As part of my Longo’s Taste Ontario Ambassador adventure, I just got approval to take over the Longo’s Loft on Nov 30th and host an evening with Chef Matt Kantor of LittleKitchen.ca and my partner in the Secret Pickle Supper Club cooking international dishes featuring Ontario products. This is a one-night-only demo dinner entitled:  Taste Ontario, Taste the World. This is intimate, private Longo’s-sponsored event for a small number of invited guests, and two of you! Matt’s going to be preparing 5 dishes featuring Ontario grown or produced ingredients from Longo’s (we’ll be shopping earlier in the day) which you…

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Giveaway: Longo’s Gift Card

Giveaway: Longo’s Gift Card

It’s past time for another Longo’s giveaway and this time rather than hand picking a big bag of perishable goodies I’ve decided to give you a Longo’s gift card for $20. This way you can spend it on the goodies you would like to put in the bag yourself!  Vegetables, coffee, meat, cheese, sauces, chocolate, or just stock up on garlic Here’s How to Enter (aka the hoop): Leave a comment in the original contest post on unsweetened.ca and tell me: the location of your closest Longo’s (here’s a hint) one thing you will put in your Longo’s goodie bag.…

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Giveaway: Cranberry Festival & Bog Tour #ExplorersEdge Contest

Giveaway: Cranberry Festival & Bog Tour #ExplorersEdge Contest

Yes, you heard right, a Cranberry Bog Tour Giveaway!!!  How cool is that? Thanks to Explorers’ Edge I have 8 passes to the Bala Cranberry Festival and Cranberry Bog Tours THIS weekend! Just tell me what you like about cranberries before Thursday at 5pm and you’ll be entered to win.  It’s that simple! I have 2 prizes each for 4 people so you can fill your car with your road trip buddies or even your family and head to Muskoka for your very own Foodie Adventure this weekend at the Bala Cranberry Festival! You may even see us there, since…

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Giveaway: Longo’s Taste Ontario Grab Bag

Giveaway: Longo’s Taste Ontario Grab Bag

It’s time for me to give away another big bag of Longo’s goodies to one of you lucky readers! As many of you know, I spent most of yesterday at Longo’s Maple Leaf Square location.  I ate, I shopped, and I hung out in the Loft.  I also visited Corks Beer and Wine Bar, conveniently located in the Loft! Corks serves a great list of Ontario wines and Ontario Beers and since the LCBO’s goLOCAL launched recently I felt inspired for this month’s question. Here’s How to Enter (aka the hoop): Leave a comment in the original contest post on…

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Giveaway: Bag of Longo’s Goodies

Giveaway: Bag of Longo’s Goodies

As part of the Taste Ontario Ambassador Series I asked Longo’s to make it possible for me to share my tastes and experiences with you guys through a monthly giveaway of some of the Taste Ontario produce and Longo’s products. Of course I don’t have enough to give everyone (wouldn’t that be nice!), so I’ll be having a monthly contest and picking the winner by random draw… of course you’ll have to jump through a little hoop to enter. This month I filled the bag at Maple Leaf Square and I added some extra goodies so all together there’s over…

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