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Summer arrived and eat watermelon
Best Grill & Bar in Steele Ave W., Alexei Posterniak grills slices of watermelon, drizzle with a dressing made Greek, a blend of spices from the Middle East called za'atar and a balsamic reduction $ 9.
"People go crazy for my salad of watermelon, which is unusual," he says. "People eat fresh watermelon watermelon grilled, but not something they see every day."
He has shared a recipe. So has Lee, who wanted to add something “juicy and hydrating” to his summer menu and gravitated to watermelon.
For home cooks, there’s a kitchen gadget for everything, including slicing watermelons.
Kuhn Rikon now makes a serrated melon slicer that’s long and sharp enough to easily cut through thick melon skins. It’s also cutely coloured in red and green and comes with a safety sheath.
Algiers melon salad should not be complicated. A quick survey of recipes and chef shows the watermelon is likely to be combined with feta cheese and red onion, but that goes with tomatoes, oranges, basil, mint, parsley and cilantro. In general, dressed simply with a combination of extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar and fresh lemon juice.
"This is food on the beach, or at least outdoors, on a hot day with the sun's rays without obstacles," writes Ottolenghi. "Reminds me of warm nights of sweat on the promenade in Tel Aviv, when everyone is enjoying the beer, loud music and often a heated conversation."
Are you like Sand, Sun — or smokestacks?
Sunbathing at Sugar Beach could soon take a look at the power plant.
A power company based in Toronto proposed the construction of a cogeneration plant gas Redpath sugar in his 4.25 hectares of industrial land in the heart of the city's waterfront recently revitalized.
The installation of 45 megawatts they generate enough energy to supply 36,000 homes with electricity when operating at full capacity, equivalent to about 5 percent of the 700,000 customers of Toronto Hydro.
“This is truly a neighbourhood-sized facility,” said Scott Stevens of Northland Power Inc. He says the emissions will be a fraction of those produced by large electricity generators such as the 550-megawatt Portlands Energy Centre.
The $100-million proposed facility — a two-storey rectangular building with an emissions stack — would replace an unused warehouse at the Redpath refinery, which is on the water at the foot of Jarvis St.
Northland would sell the electricity to the grid and Redpath would purchase steam generated by the heat — the by-product of electricity generation — to process its sugar.
“It is a classic application for cogeneration,” says Stevens. “It’s a big steam consumer in an area where you need power.” Redpath uses about 60,000 kilograms of steam an hour.
Ontario Power Authority wants to add 500 megawatts of the combined heat and electricity plants in Ontario. OPA put out requests for submissions with a registration deadline of June 28.
But the government agency wouldn’t say how many registrations for cogeneration plants were received. “Somewhere between one and 100,” said Kevin Dick, the agency’s director of clean energy procurement, who said releasing the number could hurt the competitive process. The deadline for formal submissions is Sept. 1.
Opponents of nuclear power believe cogeneration is a less risky and more effective way to produce power. “It’s by far the most efficient way to use natural gas for electric power generation,” says Jack Gibbons, chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. Gibbons believes this type of neighbourhood facility is the wave of the future.
“Portlands is a huge natural gas power plant, but there’s never been much political opposition to small-scale gas-fired power plants in Ontario,” says Gibbons. “It means we can help keep the lights on in Toronto if there’s a North American blackout — and keep good high-paying jobs at Redpath,” he says.
Waterfront Toronto, the government agency at the heart of revitalizing the East Bayfront and West Don Lands, is interested in talking to the company about potential power uses for the waterfront community, says Michelle Noble, the agency’s director of communications and marketing. The city has typically backed cogeneration and has put zoning in place in both waterfront communities to allow the use.
Northland connected to the network with a cable that runs underground beneath Queens Quay and Sherbourne St. to the substation Esplanade.The electric company said that a detailed design for the power plant will be determined at a later stage. The company is holding a house open to the public at the Novotel Toronto Centre on July 20 from noon to 8 pm
Northland will submit a formal offer for the takeover bid in September and said that the company must meet in mid-October if the proposal is approved.
Be Laser pens safety
A York Regional Police helicopter is the latest hit with a laser beam on Wednesday night.
The helicopter, Air 2, is in the air over Richmond Hill around 10:30 pm to help officials respond to reports of gunshots. As they fly on Bayview Ave. and Leslie St., the pilot of a bright green light source and immediately noticed the helicopter to safety navigate.
Police said they the source of the light came from a home on Pathlane Rd., where a 10-year-old was found with a laser-pointer device at gadgettown.
Parents of the boy knew he had the laser, but were unaware of how it was being used, according to Sgt. Rob O’Quinn, who also said video from the helicopter revealed the boy was “tracking” the helicopter and tried more than six times to hit the pilot with the light.
York police sent out a release Friday reminding parents that laser pointers should not be considered gifts for children.
O’Quinn said York has seen four such incidents so far this year. Last year they investigated more than a dozen similar incidents.
According to Health Canada, a split-second look at a Green Laser Pointer, can result in a condition called flash blindness. This is similar to the effect that you get in flash photography where the flash image remains in your eyes for several seconds, then fade away. For a pilot to control an airplane flying over a populated area could be serious consequences.