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Longo’s: Taste Ontario, Taste the World Round Up

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…

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Watching Matt in action at Longo’s in prep for tonight’s #TasteOntario Blogger Dinner

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  

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Longo’s: Thursday’s Pizza

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…

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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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Longo’s Week of Daily Dinner Deals

Longo’s Week of Daily Dinner Deals

Last week I told you about our Longo’s Meets CheapEats adventure, a day when we ate every single meal in Longo’s Maple Leaf Square store.  Well you didn’t think we’d leave out their $6.99 Daily Dinner Deals did you? Of course not! So we spent a week eating Longo’s Dinner Nights Done Right for dinner every day.  Some were fantastic, some were okay; some were hot, some were not; some were enough for 2 with leftovers, some were just barely enough for one. For the most part it was a pleasant surprise and it sure made planning dinner easy! Here’s…

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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: 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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Joel on Longos: Taste Ontario Ambassador Program

Joel on Longos: Taste Ontario Ambassador Program

As I mentioned in my announcement about the Longo’s Taste Ontario Ambassador Program, it was a pleasant surprise to find out that my friend Joel Solish was participating as well. Joel has put up his announcement post here and addresses his reasons for being involved and a couple of points I missed:  Longos: Taste Ontario Ambassador Program.

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Foodie Adventure: Longo’s Taste Ontario Ambassador!

Foodie Adventure: Longo’s Taste Ontario Ambassador!

I’ve been teasing some of you with a “new sponsored foodie adventure” and I’m excited to finally able to reveal what is up! I have been invited to be one of Longo’s Taste Ontario Ambassadors! Along with Joel Solish of communityfoodist.com I will be getting an insiders view of Longo’s, their Taste Ontario program, their stores and their long standing relationships within the Ontario food community, and share it with my friends and readers. What does that “sponsored foodie adventure” actually mean? As I said, this is a sponsored foodie adventure, that means that Longo’s is giving me a $150…

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Funky Cauliflower

Funky Cauliflower

Did a little photoshoot on the Romansco Cauliflower I got from Longo’s on Friday… played with the colour a little to see what was what and this what we got. Love the pointy little flowers. Not only beautiful but tasty! [Elaine just informed me that Benoit Mandlebrot, the founder of the field of fractal mathematics, died recently ) Sad coincidence that I selected this image of a beautiful fractal vegetable today.]

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