Restaurant Review: Gus and Guidos

Gus and Guidos is quote “A Greek Italian Experience.” An experience is definately what you get when you walk through the doors and sit down to have dinner at this establishment. My experience has left me wanting to drive into Toronto and get the taste of this terrible meal from my palette by eating at …

Lemon: The New Bacon

Recently I can’t stop thinking about lemons and how I could add them, the juice, zest, slices, wedges, and whatever amount from a teaspoon to a few ounces and the result would only be a positive to the desired dish. Its just as versatile as anything else out there and gives bacon a run for …

Roast Garlic Basil Pesto Experiment

I had a hankering for pesto pasta and thought I’d try a little experiment. I threw a couple of cloves of garlic and a handful of pine nuts in a pot, submersed them in olive oil and cooked/poached them for 15 minutes on my lowest output burner on the lowest setting. I let the mix …

Lessons in abject nonsense

Or how internet explorer made a pretty site ugly. It turns out that after slaving away over some css  to make the site all handsome, Internet Explorer does not know how to read web standards compliant css code.  To mourn the loss of a handsome site and the sad, sorry lesson of IE’s gross inadequacies, …

DIY Sous Vide Challenge

Evan and I are looking to build a DIY sous vide machine.  We are sourcing the parts and are just about to ready to rock and roll. If anyone is interested in playing with us, drop us a line… Here’s what we’ve come up with so far: -in principal any body of water can be …