Vegan Mixed Bean Salad

With the weather warming up and bathing suit season coming earlier than usual, I have gone into turbo-mode trying to get fit for all my pretty summer outfits.  This mixed bean salad is the perfect afternoon snack or light meal for everyone trying to get in shape for summer, but is so delicious that you […]

Toronto Taste 2012: Supporting Second Harvest Through Dining

Toronto Taste, Second Harvest’s annual food fest at the Royal Ontario Museum is truly a must attend and this year tickets sold out over a week in advance. 2012 marked the 22nd year of this event and 1400 Torontonians paid $250 for a ticket to this fundraising tasting of dishes by the top chefs around the city. Each […]

Announcement: Cynthia Cheng Mintz Joins Cuver Magazine

I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to be a food contributor to Cuver Magazine, a new, quarterly publication focusing on style, dining, culture and more and bridges the online world with print by publishing by featuring columns written by influential bloggers and other online publishers.  I will be writing about dining trends […]

Mott’s Fruitsations + Veggies: Kids’ Faves Go Office Friendly!

I was recently contacted by a PR company to attend a kid-friendly event promoting Mott’s new Fruitsations + Veggies and Fruitsations Fruit Rockets snacks.  Though they’re geared little ones, adults, too, would enjoy this delicious snack.  The Fruitsations + Veggies come in two flavours – apple sauce and carrots mixed with cherries and other berries […]

Dining in Midtown: Five Doors North

I recently had dinner at Five Doors North, located on Yonge, just south of Eglinton. I’ve known about this Italian-inspired eatery before – after all, it’s been around for several years – but only went there for the first time this past weekend. Light fixtures on the ceiling Romaine leaves with garlic crostini and Caesar […]

McCain’s Harvest Splendour Medleys: Easy, But Plain and Powdery

A PR company recently contacted me about trying McCain’s Harvest Splendour Medleys, frozen potato side dishes that can be made in less than half an hour.  As I am a very busy person who prefers to make her meals as easily and quickly as possible, I jumped the chance to try the products out.      […]

Delicious Roasted Chicken with Honey Roasted Beets,Carrots and Celery

This recipe is great as a main course both for family or entertaining.  Just adjust proportions according to the number of people you have! You will need: 8 chicken thighs, or about two per person 2 tbsp nutmeg 1 tbsp salt 1 tbsp pepper 1 tbsp dry thyme 2 beets, skins removed (see below) 2 […]

Relaxing at Wish Restaurant

One of my favourite Yonge and Bloor area restaurants is Wish Restaurant on Charles, just east of Yonge.  Known for a while as The Black Skirt, Wish offers delicious lunch and dinner choices as well as a weekend brunch and is definitely a place to go if you want to get away from the hustle […]

Delicious Gourmet Quick Bite SLICED

Gourmet quick bite restaurants are popping up all over the city, but few are anything like SLICED Gourmet, which recently opened on Bay and Elm.  This restaurant, with its rustic interior, features both packaged, ready-to-eat sandwiches as well as the standard pressed with delicious fillings such as fig and prosciutto, a delicous-sounding Nutella-based sandwich called […]

Blowfish Bay Street Celebrates One Year Anniversary

Media and foodies were invited to a delicious event at Blowfish Restaurant and Sake Bar‘s second location on Bay Street last night to celebrate its first anniversary.  Like the King and Bathurst restaurant which opened nine years ago, the location is a fusion of traditional and modern as well as east and west, with its […]