Downtown desserts: where to satisfy your sweet tooth in the city.
Food
But eating well doesn’t have to be that difficult or time-consuming. A few nights a week, set aside an hour or two to make yourself a delicious dinner. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just something that you take a bit of time to prepare and enjoy.
Here are reviews of three shawarma restaurants close to the U of O campus, graded by four main criteria: price, location, service, and taste.
When midterms are haunting your dreams and papers are weighing you down, coffee is the one thing that will always be there to keep you going. Students tend to develop an unhealthy relationship with coffee quite soon after 101 Week, when they realize their professors were serious about all those readings. Next thing you know, it’s 9 a.m. on a Sunday, you have 200 pages of reading to do for Monday, and you’re sitting in the library hating your life.
But at least you have coffee.
The Fulcrum staff recommend their best fall beverages in a special edition of Highballs with Hawleywood, Pints with Ponyboy, and Van Dyk’s Vineyards.
Here are two recipes from two great people—Justin Dallaire and Jesse Colautti’s mothers—that will make you both figuratively and literally look outside the box.
The Fulcrum gives you the best places in Ottawa for date night.
It always begins with having to mention to your friends that you have celiac disease, and can’t eat wheat, and therefore cannot eat at most restaurants. There are only so many times you can make your group of friends go for Thai food or all-you-can-eat sushi before you develop a guilt complex. So you say, “It’s OK, I’m sure they have salads,” which is even worse because you end up at a restaurant with nothing to eat but lettuce.
Local food also seems to always pack a flavourful punch incomparable to the imported and GMO products we find at grocery stores. Perhaps it’s merely a psychological effect, but consuming local food usually leaves me more satisfied and full, not to mention with a heightened sense of moral contentment.
Beer: a drink of the people Jesse Colautti | Fulcrum Staff Beer goes by many titles: sweet nectar of the gods, refreshing vacation in a glass, and the bringer together of friends, to name a few. To put it simply, beer is the best. While hard liquor excites before ultimately smashing you over the head …
In the world of beer pairings, people seldom think to include vegetarian fare on their menus. Swap the heavy meet pairings with this budget-friendly, easy to prepare, vegetarian meal that could even impress your parents. [styled_box title=” Apple slices, banana slices, and strawberries with a fluff and cream-cheese dip” color=”purple”]Paired with: Kichesippi’s seasonal “Logger” (Pennsylvania …
In the world of beer pairings, people seldom think to include vegetarian fare on their menus. Swap the heavy meet pairings with this budget-friendly, easy to prepare, vegetarian meal that could even impress your parents. [styled_box title=”Pumpkin, squash and carrot soup, topped with Gruyère cheese” color=”blue”]Paired with: Mad and Noisy’s “Sunny and Share Citrus Saison” …
Vegetarian dish and beer pairings to spice up your life
People look forward to these Thanksgiving dinner staples practically all year. But when you’re a vegan like me, traditional Thanksgiving meals will most likely result in a half-empty plate.
What better way to excite your partner than to introduce some more licking and eating to the bedroom?
Check out these simple recipes that can be easily modified to fit your tastes.
Drinking water before you exercise, especially in the two hours preceding a workout, is essential to staying hydrated.
Caffeine, often considered the best part of a cup of Joe, can actually mess with your insides and you probably don’t even know it.
The best bars on or near campus to fill your stomach and wet your whistle Photos by Tina Wallace Whether you’re looking for filling fare, frosty beers, or new friends, all these pubs will have you making great memories while spending those pinched pennies. Café Nostalgica: 601 Cumberland St. Newly renovated Nostalgica reopened this fall …
Beverages to warm you up and calm you down Photos by Tina Wallace As much as we’d like to pretend summer isn’t over, the chilly weather has arrived. Here are three drinks—one non-alcoholic, two alcoholic—that should help you cope with the transition and keep you warm during the cold fall and winter months. Cinnamon Hot …
Finding ingredients that are easy to use in several dishes and cheap enough to keep money in your wallet is easier than you might think.
Gone are the days when it’s acceptable to be tagged on Facebook holding a Pabst Blue Ribbon or a Smirnoff Ice. No, you need something that communicates just how sophisticated you and your taste in alcohol are.
When she’s not busy making sandwiches at the Red Apron (564 Gladstone Ave.) or recording albums with local bands like Zebrassieres, she’s hosting a YouTube show—Eva Bee’s Jamboree—that features Ottawa musicians cooking with local ingredients.
he richness of life comes from taking chances, and although not every unique, local restaurant you choose will be a winner, I guarantee the good experiences will outweigh the bad. It is simply naive to decide on Swiss Chalet because you want to avoid risk.
To help us improve on a classic, we enlisted Jamie Stunt, head chef at Oz Kafe (361 Elgin St.) and recent silver medallist at the Canadian Culinary Championships. We challenged him to create a more delicious version of the bright orange mac and cheese by adding only five additional ingredients to the mix. In his own words, his leftover KD casserole is “actually pretty fucking good!”
