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
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…
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…
Longo’s: Taste Ontario, Taste the World Round Up
Okay, one final post about the Taste Ontario Taste the World evening at Longo’s… this time a round up of the posts about our guests impressions of the evening, the store and the food. Taste Ontario at Longo’s from Sarah B. Hood on toronto tasting notes… New Loblaws, Bulk Barn, and Matt Kantor at Longo’s from David Ort on Food with Legs December Restaurant & Event Catch Up from Stephanie Dickison on One More Bite Bon Eats’ photoset from Taste Ontario, Taste the World Taste Ontario, Taste the World at Longo’s from Bonita M on Bon Eats Tasting Toronto’s photoset…
Longo’s: A night of Taste Ontario Taste the World
Since August, when I was invited by Longo’s to be a Taste Ontario Ambassador, I’ve been working on hosting a cooking demo/dinner for some of Toronto’s foodies, bloggers, influencers and twitterati, highlighting the range and flexibility of these great ingredients that Longo’s offers from Ontario farmers and producers. The idea was to showcase Ontario ingredients from a World Cuisine perspective.
Longo’s: And Then A Photo Contest Broke Out!
It may seem a little strange, but that’s what happened on Wednesday night at Longo’s MLS Loft for our Taste Ontario, Taste the World evening. There we were enjoying the lovely bounty of Ontario, sipping wines from local wineries and watching Matt prepare this fantastic meal when things got … well… silly. Not that that is so uncommon when I’m running an event. In short, an impromptu challenge was laid on the table – who can take the best photo of the night. And I’ve thrown in a $50 Longo’s Gift Card to reward the winner. But I need your…
Watching Matt in action at Longo’s in prep for tonight’s #TasteOntario Blogger Dinner
We have 20 bloggers, influencers and folks-about town coming in for a cooking demo with Matt cooking 5 International dishes all from Longo’s shelves and each dish featuring an Ontario product. So amazing! This is Taste Ontario, Taste the World
Longo’s: Friday Wings
As you may have noticed, all these dinner stories seem to start with some sort of life-event making dinner challenging. Isn’t that always the way? I know I’m not alone. Friday night we were headed out of town. A quick train trip to visit family and I was really excited to snag wings at the Longo’s Maple Leaf Square store to eat on the train for dinner. I hadn’t realized until Friday how close they were to each other and hadn’t tried out the new entrance from Bremner into Union Station. It’s practically around the corner from the departure area.…
Longo’s: Thursday’s Pizza
Because life is never boring, Thursday night’s dinner deal lined up with a HoHoTO sponsorship team meeting. Of course that means a great opportunity to feed a group! So, guess who brought the pizza? (Okay, it was Gerry because I was busy getting things lined up for our meeting.) Gerry picked up three 16” pepperoni pizzas at the Elizabeth Street store and cycled them over to the office. Word of advice: you shouldn’t put pizzas in a bike rack and cycle them over to a business meeting and expect them to look like pizza when you arrive. Won’t happen. Gerry…
Longo’s: Wednesday’s Chicken
Well, remember how my best friend and his daughter were visiting on Tuesday? Well they were still visiting Wednesday. Wednesday morning anyway. It was a lovely visit with lots of catching up, but it meant my day was little offset. Essentially I started work at about noon instead of nine. One of the benefits of working for yourself is that this is an option. One of the downfalls is that Longo’s was sold out of chickens when I went in to buy one at 8:30pm Wednesday’s deal: 1kg Roasted Chicken What you should know: they sell out FAST at some…
Longo’s: Tuesday’s Sushi
Tuesday was by far the most challenging meal in this series. Not because Longo’s sushi is challenging but because my best friend and god-daughter arrived that night with a serious craving for Indian. Sushi, as most of you know, is not a traditional Indian dish. Not even a close approximation of any South Asian cuisine. I decided we’d get the Longo’s Sushi, share it as an appetizer and then head out for the much craved Indian. So working on a tight schedule we zipped over to the Longo’s at First Canadian Place to get it. Unfortunately the Longo’s at First…
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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Alexa is this week's Featured Member blog on Food Bloggers of Canada
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Alexa was featured as View The Vibe Friday Foodie, which started with "I caught up with this social media maven a few months ago at the Oikos’ Christmas in August dinner party and she stunned the heck out of me! This Jill of all trades is a publisher, writer, food blogger, photographer and lover of all things edible. She has her own publication of restaurant guides called Cheap Eats,...
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