Savour Winnipeg

Chef Terry Geretta of Mise Bistro shared this recipe at the MLCC chef series course I attended. It’s a crowd pleasing appy I’ve served to much applause over the years: Blueberry & Bison Stuffed Beef Tenderloin 1 piece beef 3cm x 6-10 cm, hammered out scallopini style 2-3 oz ground bison 2 tbsp sun-dried blueberries [...]

Chef Terry Geretta of Mise Bistro shared this recipe at the MLCC chef series course I attended. It’s an easy to make and crowd pleasing appy I’ve served to many friends over the years: Ingredients Rice Paper Wrappers Chow Mein noodles (prepared) Fine julienned carrot Fine julienned red bell pepper Fine julienned green bell pepper [...]

Chef Terry Geretta of Mise Bistro shared this recipe at the MLCC chef series course I attended. It’s an easy to make and crowd pleasing appy I’ve served to many friends over the years: INGREDIENTS 6 oz beef tenderloin 1/4 cup honey 1 tbsp pureed chipotle peppers in adobo sauce* Salt & pepper Corn starch [...]

There’s been a ton of renos and rebuilds at the Madison Square shopping centre near Polo Park lately.  No exception, the Liquor Mart has undergone a face-lift and is now one of the swankest in the fleet. The biggest change is the addition of a state-of-the-art education centre, the second in the city (the other [...]

Bistro to bar, greasy spoon to haute cuisine, every restaurant has a way of doing things that they’ve made part of the experience. Some of these practices I like, others I hate.  The other night my server poured me wine directly from the bottle.  Like.  But he drained it to the last drop and dumped [...]

Sophisticated interpretations of Canadian regional cuisine are still the cornerstone of Mise Bistro, but in their new location they’ve taken it to all new heights. One of Winnipeg’s best kept secrets, Mise grew into one of Winnipeg’s pre-eminent restaurants in spite of being tucked away in a low-profile corner of Osborne Village. Owners Terry and [...]

Season 5 of Bravo’s award winning reality show Top Chef premiered this week. Seventeen hopefuls attempt to take Manhattan, home turf for the show’s tough-love judge Tom Colicchio. The first two contestants to get chopped went to the same culinary school together!  Yikes.  What does that say!? If one hour of drama isn’t enough to [...]

Legend has it that a group of Dutch exporters and French vintners thought to maximize shipping (and profit) by distilling their wines.  At the final destination they would reconstitute the product, approximating the original. They were mistaken.  Shipped in oak barrels, the wine’s flavour was irrevocably altered. However, they had quite by accident discovered a [...]

  Food Network’s plug for Gordon Ramsey’s latest show totally suckered me. I actually asked the question, what does the f-word stand for?  Could he be that audacious…that transparent to name his show after his favourite expletive? “In case you’re wondering what the f-word stands for,” he says later in the promo, “it’s food, of [...]

I was thrilled to see FreeRice.com featured in my latest issue of Food & Wine magazine. An online trivia game with a social conscience, I’d discovered the site about a year ago as it was just growing in popularity. When you arrive at FreeRice.com, you’re presented with a word and four possible definitions. Questions get [...]