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Recipe collections tell a story. Through their tattered stained cards, clippings and notes you can tell a lot about their owners. Their likes, dislikes, which recipes they used frequently and what kind of dinners and…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Sunday, March 16th, 2014
Categories: Meditations | Tags: 1970s, charity, crab, dinnerpartyYVR, recipies, shrimp, Social Bites, vintage | 7 Comments »
Growing up in North Vancouver, Michael Cober recalls being fascinated by watching bees working in the hives his father kept. “My love of beekeeping is about not just getting outside and being in nature but participating…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Friday, March 14th, 2014
Categories: Worship | Tags: bees, honey, infused, Scotch | 6 Comments »
Serving oysters with a unique twist Richard Boucher and his team at The Curious Oyster Catering Co. have been bringing their wares to different venues across Vancouver. In the spring I attended their “A Most Curious…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Categories: Worship | Tags: catering, curious oyster, events, ocean wise, oysters | No Comments »
When my friends and I decided to go to Naples we were warned by others who had visited not to stay for too long because it was gross, dirty and disgusting. To the contrary we found Naples an authentic Italian experience…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Categories: Meditations | Tags: Brioche, clams, gelato, Italian Food, italy, mussels, Naples, Pasta, Pistachios, Seafood, Sparkling Lemonade, Wood Fired Pizza | 2 Comments »
The last two summers that I’ve been in Edmonton I’ve been lucky enough to be around for The Fry party hosted at my friends Andrew and Fiona’s house. Not knowing what to expect from “The Fry” but just some fried…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: bacon, fried cheese, fried desserts, fried food, fried turkey, fried vegetables, fry, grilling, summer, the big green egg | 1 Comment »
I’m always excited when my friends Denise and Darren come to the lake as that means they are bringing their jaffle iron. When they first told me about it I had no fracking clue what they were talking about until I…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Sunday, August 5th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: campfire, camping food, jaffle iron, sandwich | 18 Comments »
Today is the first day of Greek Orthodox Holy Week, Great Monday, which culminates on Saturday at midnight with Easter and the breaking of a 40 day fast. The Greek Orthodox faith follows the Gregorian calendar which means…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Monday, April 9th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: easter, Greece, lamb, offal, soup | No Comments »
A couple of months ago we had a Foodists Montréal movie night. Even though I was told we had loads of desert, being a sugar addict I just had to add to the sweets being offered, as for a while I’ve been wanting to make…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: new years, pate brisée, pie, quebec, sugar pie | 4 Comments »
A few years ago I went on a search for an eggnogg recipe as find most store bought varieties quite disgusting. As I love vintage I ended up adapting a recipe from Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts that was originally…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Christmas, cream, eggnog, eggs, liquor, sugar, vintage | 4 Comments »
Though I really don’t want Meow Mix to please deliver I had really hoped that Sunday dinner at my aunt and uncle’s had delivered better. Lured by the promise of a yummy chicken liver dinner I made the trek up to their…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Friday, July 29th, 2011
Categories: Guidance | Tags: appetizer, bacon, BBQ, chicken liver, liver | 2 Comments »
Earth’s Own Almond Fresh – Chocolate Thanks to Foodtree and Earth’s Own we’ve received coupons to try a few non dairy products. If you’d like to try either of these for free (and/or original, vanilla or…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Categories: Worship | Tags: Almond Milk, Earth's Own, foodtree, non-dairy, So Nice, soy milk | 1 Comment »
One of the best things about moving from the prairie to the coast is access to things such as in season seafood. So I was more than excited when on the long weekend in May my good friends Effy and Greg invited me over for…
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Monday, June 13th, 2011
Categories: Guidance | Tags: John Bishop, Refuel, spot prawn recipe, Spot Prawns | 1 Comment »