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I was completely hooked the first time I tasted Jaew Bong and knew I had to figure out how to make it at home.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Categories: Guidance | Tags: dipping sauce, jaew, jeow, Laos, Luang Prabang, mark busse, recipe | No Comments »
Growing up in Ontario, my dad used to come back from wintertime east-coast work trips with a bag of frozen smelt, but I never really understood where they came from (river? ocean? lake?) or why they were so delicious.…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Monday, February 11th, 2013
Categories: Guidance | Tags: local food, preserving wild foods, recipe, salted smelt, smelt, sustainable | No Comments »
If you aren’t familiar with Patricia Wells, you should be. She’s the doyenne of bistro cuisine, and runs what I’ve heard is the best cooking school in Provence. She has a pied-à-terre in Paris where…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Categories: Guidance | Tags: best, best cooking school Provence, bistro, cooking classes, cooking school, grape, olive, olive oil, Provence | 1 Comment »
Last week I was sent on assignment to Halifax, Nova Scotia* and stayed with friends. It was a glorious visit, and we made some pretty spectacular food, including a handmade orecchiette served with a…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Thursday, January 17th, 2013
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Our latest new contributors are Lauren Mote and Jonathan Chovancek who are the co-owners of Kale & Nori Culinary Arts, and makers of Bittered Sling Extracts. This holiday season a bunch of us asked Jonathan to cook…
Posted by: Lauren Jonathan on Friday, January 4th, 2013
Categories: Guidance | Tags: holidays, Jonathan Chovancek, Kale & Nori, Lauren Mote, recipe, Turchetta, turkey | 1 Comment »
I did something for dinner yesterday that was so brilliant in its future usefulness I couldn’t wait to share it. Not only is it delicious, it’s also extremely quick to make, inexpensive, gluten free, dairy free and…
Posted by: Pailin Chongchitnant on Monday, December 17th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cauliflower, coconut milk, curry, leftovers, mushroom, potato, roasted vegetables, root vegetables, thai, yellow | 1 Comment »
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 »
My favourite part of the summer harvest season is eating through all of the different types of fruits. The beginning of summer (whether the Vancouver weather knows it or not) means strawberries in June, to be followed by…
Posted by: Brenda Lowe on Monday, September 3rd, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: almonds, baking, Blueberries, butter, cake, dessert, Fruit, recipe | 2 Comments »
In this first week of my French stage, I’ve learned all kinds of tips and tricks . This ranges from suspending a soupy salad (like bulgur-less tabbouleh) in a tamis (sieve) set over a bowl, so as to preserve the…
Posted by: Karen Pinchin on Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: eggplant, Provence, quick meals, recipes | No Comments »
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 | 12 Comments »
Foodists is a collective of obsessed food fanatics, and as such our relationship with where our food comes from is super important to us. Many of our motley crew live in British Columbia, home of the spot prawn (Pandalus…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 11th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: Ben Garfinkel, British Columbia, Chad Brealey, Howe Sound, mark busse, Organic Ocean, Pandalus Platyceros, prawning, Spot Prawns, sustainability | 2 Comments »
I come from a long line of people who cannot cook the appropriate amount of food. There is never too little – that’s for sure. I believe it is a genetic trait passed down from my parents. This was the case…
Posted by: Andrea Busse on Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: cardamon, leftovers, pudding, rice | 4 Comments »
Finally got my act together to come with a reds list as partner to the white picks I posted a while back. Once again the emphasis is on wines that over-deliver in the under $25 price category. Once again, my focus is on…
Posted by: Mark Shipway on Thursday, May 17th, 2012
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Meet Sarah Reinertsen our latest guest contributor. The fortunate instance of a bus breakdown in the Himalayan foothills – after the bus driver tried unsuccessfully to fix the malfunction with a 2×4 and a…
Posted by: Sarah Reinertsen on Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: black garlic, garlic, guest, Risotto | 3 Comments »
People get wine, even if they don’t get wine. My parents proclaim Yellow Tail to be the best thing they’ve ever tasted, but even they understand that there’s a difference between Yellow Tail and…
Posted by: Eagranie Yuh on Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Categories: Guidance | Tags: chocolate, chocolate tasting, the well-tempered chocolatier, vancouver, xoxolat | 1 Comment »