What's for dinner?

[mbroyda]

Yea I have never found a place in TO which has chips like in Mexico, or even close to the food, or basic salsa's on the table. Usually they have 2, (red and green) sometimes 3. So good. Yes the avocados are much nicer as well for whatever reason, maybe because they are fresher.
Looks like you ate well!

try Playa Cabana Cantina in the junction, or La Carnita on College or La Libre on Dupont

 

[kwtoxman]

On to dinner/supper meals. These are a number of my favorite meals as well.

I really enjoy French dining and its many great foods ?.

French meal appetizers.
Fresh breads (onion bread on the left, sesame bread on the right) and paprika butter.

I'm enthusiastically enjoying raw meat everywhere. Here it's Tartar Duo, beef fillet and bluefin tuna marinated with sesame-caper oil, served with champagne and lime glaze.

Escargot au white wine, served with fresh shallot, clarified butter and white wine reduction.

Watercress & duck salad, with watercress, red onion, bacon, avocado and thin slices of duck with citrus dressing.

Shrimp Mornay, cooked with butter and white wine reduction, served with wild rice and vegetables.

Zucchini blossom crepes. Stuffed with zucchini blossom and goat cheese with Mexican Tea and garlic, topped with poblano chili sauce and grilled corn kernels.

Caesar salad.

So many good appetizers, and this is just the French restaurant.

Cheers

 

[jc100]

More breakfast meals and lots to enjoy.

Fresh fruits (anyone know what the seedy yellow ones are) plus bacon, a condensed milk and cinnamon sugar crepe with pastry.

Smoked salmon, smoked trout, pastry, mixed fresh fruit and a beef tostada.

Strawberries and blackberries with a condensed milk and cinnamon sugar crepe.

More mixed fruit with a tamale and tree chile oil.

More smoked trout and smoked salmon. Very tasty.

Quesadilla, smoked salmon, smoke trout and various fresh fruit including raspberries and cherries.

Cheers

Seedy ones are granadillas, usually from Colombia, there’s other varieties like maracuyas and then the small purple passion fruits too. All the same family, some are more tart than others. I like the granadillas, one of my fave fruits (you can crunch the seeds and eat them too), they are about $2 CDN a pop from our local grocery places.

 

[kwtoxman]

Thx @jc100. I couldn't remember the name and wanted to highlight them. They're such a great but different fruit ?. I've seen them in the local grocer as well, but only seasonally here.

French meal main courses.
This is some of the best of the best. Highly recommended.

Lamb chops au honey mustard. Grilled, marinated with dijon mustard and honey, served with asparagus and mashed sweet potatoes.

Chateaubriand served rare with a port wine reduction, mashed potatoes and vegetables.

Here's the port wine reduction poured on, wonderful deep flavors. It's another knockout highlight meal on this trip.

These chefs knew how to cook proper rare meat. A++

All these pictures are high resolution big detail, click on them and zoom in.

Cheers

 

[kwtoxman]

French Meal Desserts.
Another favorite dish right off the bat here ?; Grand Marnier souffle served with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce au mezcal.

I love that stuff.

And here, creme brulee duo, traditional vanilla and chocolate creme brulee accompanied with zapote meringue and almond biscuit.

Cheers

 

[kwtoxman]

Here's a few highlight dishes from the Asian restaurant. I also enjoyed some sushi, a rainbow roll (mostly traditional) and an unagi roll; both were great.

Rice rolls vegetable salad, stuffed with vegetables, fine herbs and noodles.

Red snapper teppanyaki served with vegetables.

Deep fried shrimp (impressively US/Canada-Chinese shrimp ball style).

Deep fried ice cream.

Cheers

 

[kwtoxman]

Here's a multi-course modern cuisine meal.

Pan seared ahi tuna with mango sauce and sesame seeds.

Tree types of butter (plain, garlic/herb and spiced paprika) with three different types of fresh bread.

Mixed salad with various fresh sauces and flavors.

I can't remember much about this; a light cream soup.

Beef Tournedos served rare with fois gras, mixed vegetables and sweet potatoes.

Perfectly rare cooked.

Dessert.

Excellent again.

Cheers

 

[Joe Bass]

I made a burrito.
Take that, @kwtoxman! lol

Damn, you eat good!

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[kwtoxman]

Thx @Joe Bass

. It's very indulgent... highly recommended.

Here's more. An Italian meal.

Caprese salad. Mine is much better , but this is still tasty.

Prosciutto di Parma con cipolle in agrodolce e perle di melone. Grissini's from the oven wrapped in prosciutto on caramelized baby onions, grated parmesan, balsamic reductio and melon pearls.

Ravioli di Aragosta. Fresh homemade pasta stuffed with lobster and shrimp, bathed in American sauce.

Mixed seafood risotto. Very very good.

Tiramisu la dolce.

Affogato and biscutti, ice cream sunk in coffee accompanied with an almond biscotti.

Cheers

 

[kwtoxman]

Other dinner meals and plates.

Appetizers.
Beef carpaccio served with olive oil and fresh grated Grana Padano cheese. Top notch.

Red Snapper carpaccio, marinated with habanero chili and fresh mint oil. Excellent.

Avocado and shrimp mild tostada. Blue corn tortilla, avocado and shrimp salad sauteed au mezcal, panela cheese and cherry tomato.

Fois gras and pear salad, mixed lettuce served with candied pear au red wine and a guava compote dressing. Awesome.

Vitello Tonnato, veal slices served with sun dried tomato oil, arugula, capers and tuna dressing

Shrimp tartar, poached shrimp served with capers, red onion, serrano chiles, cream and mayonnaise, accompanied with pita bread.

Mixed appetizer with grissini's, fresh diced tomato herbs, hummus and eggplant.

Cheers

 

[kwtoxman]

Main courses.
Tequila grouper fillet served tostada style. Perfect.

Chicken cordon bleu served with mashed potatoes and vegetables au butter.

Cheers

 

[kwtoxman]

Other desserts.
Fried milk, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon and served with raspberry sauce.

Chocolat parfait served with mango coulis au mint flavor.

Cheers

 

[kwtoxman]

Nearly done with the trip food pics.

I also had full access other food and snack options. Lots of goodness around. ?

Coffee and pastry shop.

Snack and treat indulgence personified.

 

[kwtoxman]

Lots of ice cream flavors too, cones (plain, waffle, chocolate), etc.

More food and snacks were available and included here.

It was a great trip with so much excellent food to chose from. A real treat for sure. Eat well and cheers.

 

[bigpoppa]

you're a chef/cook arent you?

 

[kwtoxman]

you're a chef/cook arent you?

Not here. Just a foodie.

 

[kwtoxman]

More pictures. And back to home-cooked meals... with a bang!

I nailed this steak; a 21 oz 1.5 inch thick Angus beef custom cut ribeye steak from my favorite local butcher. It was grilled rare on the Weber Summit with a perfect sear and served with fresh toasted garlic bread. Big pictures and lots of detail; it's a looker ?.

When first plated.

These show the strong red colouring I've mentioned before in steak talk here. Top notch.

This shows the first cut... and with one of my Shun Elite steak knives (a nod to the previous knife talk/posts here; these are made with a rare premium very high 62 Rockwell value powdered steel, SG2).

I love the details in these pictures... the obvious glistening of the steak in oils rendered from this premium cut of ribeye, the rich red colours, etc. The flavours and textures of this steak were off the chart and across the scale. Steak meals are probably the most mastered cook in my arsenal (having grilled hundreds of steaks over the years). Top notch and highly recommended.

Cheers and enjoy the weekend.

 

[J_F]

looked at all the pics, as usual KW, yum

I take it you were in Mexico?
I haven't been there in a long time
used to frequent Riviera Nayarit region, loved it
and always found the food in Mexico
to be of superior quality to other Latin American tourist spots

so what's everyone doing for SuperBowl chow?

 

[crankcall]

superbowl party, venison and JackDaniels chili. Except its just a pork/beef/veal grind meat from the supermarket and there is no JackDaniels in it.
Won a chili contest with it in NY, everybody gets excited by the name....

 

[jc100]

I don’t watch American “football” as I have the paint drying channel instead...,but I will be making a moussaka today I think.