Olive to eat. Olive to cook. And olive to talk about food. My passion is to seek out and unearth the best quality food (and recipes) possible for my readers to bring home to their tables. My focus is local: the Peel-Halton region and sometimes beyond. Read More
Popular in Montreal, Adonis is a full service grocery store, offering a wide range of Mediterranean products. The first Adonis in Ontario will open in Mississauga. Move over Scarborough, Mississauga just went up a big notch on the ethnic food scale. Read More
If you don’t know about Bistro Narra you should. It is a treasure of a restaurant. Read More
Sure to put a smile on any face. Available every day at the bakery counter. Read More
Support our local farmers! What is in season now? Find the best of our local harvest. Read More
My Black Cherry Rose Water Sherbet turns sweet dark cherries, a touch of cream, and a faint but alluring hint of rose water into a luscious make-ahead summer dessert that will make you dream you are feasting in a sultan’s tent under a starry Sahara sky. Read More
Stracciatella Fiorentina, amore mia, I’ve never met another quite like you. Soft shreds of egg and parmesan twirling through a rich, tomato-infused broth. Bits of roasted chicken. Tender, fresh spinach leaves. Mouthwatering. Find it at Andiamo Pasta Plus, in Streetsville.
Cagney’s Greek Salad is so good, it just might become as famous as their Caesar Salad. A generous bowl of fresh flavours: ultra sweet tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, purple onion, plump greek olives, hefty chunks of greek feta, and fragrant olive oil. Simple, best-quality ingredients. Greek salad done right. I could live on this for the rest of the summer! #purepleasure
Cagneys Restaurant
128 Queen St. S.
Streetsville, ON
L5M 1K8
Telephone : (905) 826-2311
Read MoreJust a peek of some of the great things I spotted at Port Credit Farmers’ Market this morning.
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The first idea Olive got in her hot little head was to write a food blog called Olive to Eat. Olive loves to unearth the finest local flavours and talk endlessly about them. This sometimes drives her family nuts but they figure it’s easier than listening to her sing (don’t ever ask Olive to sing, especially not Crazy, Patsy Cline style). Sign up to receive Olive’s food blog posts by email or follow her on twitter, facebook, pinterest, or instagram.
Photo contributed by Laura Kelly.
Olive tried to bake up a cookie business, Olive My Love, but couldn’t find an easy way through all of the Peel Health red tape (those folks are sure looking out for us). Her fortune-not! cookie business quickly crumbled. If you have been extra sweet to Olive, you might still find a box of cookies on your doorstep at Christmas.
Next, Olive had a yearning for those tiny lipstick samples she played with as a child. She was once caught red-lipped, hanging like a monkey from her mom’s vanity, after trying on every colour with reckless abandon.
Ding dong, Olive the Avon Lady is in business! Avon samples anyone? Follow Olive the Avon Lady on facebook or sign up for her Avon newsletter by sending your consent to [email protected].
Try as she might, Olive just couldn’t contain her creative juices. Come on, Olive, what is in those suitcases?!
If you know Olive, you know she loves hunting for vintage treasures.
She has been busy carefully curating a line of fun and flirty vintage accessories.
Come see Olive’s collection, Olive in Love, now available at Three Wishes in Streetsville.
Enjoy all this dreamy shop has to offer (vintage home and garden and Bloomin’ Lovely handmade, local lavender products packaged with vintage love).
Follow Three Wishes’ facebook page for current hours of operation (limited). Please don’t forget to follow the Olive in Love page for updates on Olive’s latest finds.
So, Olive’s got a bit of a – forgive me – mixed olive thing going on. Sometimes she is sure she can hear her husband singing “ccraazzyy” under his breath. Thank you so much to all who support me, especially you honey!
Read MoreHow lovely to wake up on a beautiful farm, with a gaggle of gal pals, and be served a “proper British breakfast” by our hostess with the mostess. Fried eggs, fried tomatoes, sausages, hash browns, fried mushrooms, whole grain bread, Wiltshire bacon rashers (Loblaw’s), and British baked beans (British Grocer Wholesale). Cracking good! Thank you, Christine!
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