madeira cake

• New Park Eatery Flexes Its Mussels

A thick veal chop can be an acid test of a restaurant kitchen. Cook it a mere few seconds too long and it becomes dry and juiceless, but the Terrace's pan-seared slab of milk-fed veal was tender and succulent, finished with wild mushrooms in madeira sauce, and partnered exquisitely with chewy, noodle-like spaetzle ($33). A massive, maple-brined Berkshire pork chop -- another test of timing -- was similarly prepared and equally successful, full of flavour, with juices intact and paired with a perky garnish of cranberry-apple sauce ($26). The Terrace is ideal for lunch, not only for its ambiance on a sunny day, but also for the fact that several dinner entrees are available at slightly reduced prices. The chicken livers, $13 at dinner, are $10 at lunch; the salmon and the pork chops, whic...

... made with a proper biscuit dough (not sponge cake), but they had skimped on the strawberries, and th...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 19, 2009

• The true Northwest Passage: explorers in Anglo-Canadian nationalist narratives.

... and readers to have their post-colonial cake and eat it too. . Though the phrase "the true Nort... for the Beaufort Sea: An Autobiography (Madeira Park BC: Harbour, 1993), 67, 238, 249-50. The titl...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2010, March 2010

• See the World (Right Outside Your Front Door)

BEST REASON TO GO: The show - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll clap until your hands hurt. CULTURE SHOCK: Our paella was overcooked. But we weren't: When they say the venue's air conditioned, they ain't kiddin'. Bring a sweater. CULTURE SHOCK: Surely there can be more to be celebrated about five of the world's freest, happiest, and most socially successful countries than a '70s disco act. And where's the lutefisk?

... patties, jerk chicken wings, spicy fish cake, sugar cakes and sweet bread. My pick and price: ... celebrates the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. SHOW: Four different dance troupes and a singer b...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 13, 2009