LCBO Food & Drink Holiday 2020

HOMEY FOR THE HOLIDAYS

BABA’S PATYCHKY (MEAT ON A STICK) with APPLE MUSTARD CHUTNEY

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“You can taste the genetic footprint of these skewers, which are a bit of a project that involves marinating, breading, frying and roasting.”

Andrea Nicholson, Butchie’s Restaurant butchies.ca Whitby, ont.

“Even though Christmas Eve is predominantly fish and vegetables she would always sneak them in.” Her baba would cook these family favourites in oversize black-speckled roast- ing pans and there would be so many left over that her large extended family would get to take dozens home.

a stint in Italy instilled a love of simplicity. “Now it’s all about Southern flair,” says Nicholson. Butchie’s is a fun, roadside joint serving pulled pork sandwiches, hush puppies and homemade pie.    “My grandmother would always make patychky for the holidays, especially Ukrainian Christmas,” says Nicholson.

“I often joke that cooking was in my DNA because my grandmother was such a big influence,” says Butchie’s Restaurant chef and owner, Andrea Nicholson. “So cooking for a living was a natural default.” Nicholson began her career in top Toronto kitchens under such chefs as Marc Thuet and Susur Lee. Then

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