Blog-A-Log – Saturday, October 10th

Here's what Toronto food writers are gnawing on this week... (I know... sometimes these come out sounding rude.)

• Blog From Our Kitchen - you can't buy beet tops without the beets - why is that? Anyway, if you use the extra beets to make ice cream, it turns out really, really pink.
• Bon Eats - wait! CHESTNUT moon cakes? And now I've got to wait until next year to get them? Awww...
• Cream Puffs in Venice - Leafs fans often need comforting, so comfort food like Mac 'n' Cheese is a great way to make it through that final (losing) shoot out.
• Descent into Dessert - pulled pork is not so intimidating when you have a fancy pot to cook it in.
• Food With Legs - I'm always amused at some of the stuff food bloggers come up with, and fermented hot sauce definitely wins this week's unique award.
• Get the Foodie 411 - a visit to Caplansky's gains yet another devoted follower for the deli.
• Ginger Rose - what do you get when you mix Bisquick and 7-UP? Popeye's biscuits. I'm not sure if that's cool or terrifying.
• Gothic Epicures VinCuisine - a preview of the LCBO Vintages release.
• Living in the Kitchen With Puppies - I kept reading this as "a 3-tiered spout", which would have been awesome, but sprouters are cool too.
• Porkosity - tasty, flavourful, toothsome, resto, foodie - we thank Corey Mintz for not falling for these standard food writing cliches during  his time at the Star.
• Save Your Fork - speaking of food and cliches - a rant on foodiots.
• Seven Spoons - when cake comes back - grab a fork and philosophize.
• Sweet Things - and this is why I never pursued a career in pastry - because all this detail work (holy crap!!) would have made my head explode.
• Unsweetened Chocolate - Panko. Panko very much. (It'll rock your chicken.)
• Vegan Cookbook Critic - the very best vegan muffins in Toronto.
• Welcome to the World of Ontario Wine - summing up Sonoma.
• Well Preserved - an evening of preserving with the gang from Not Far From the Tree.